40 Rare Historical Photos: From Union POWs to Bombings and Segregation
Welcome to Retro Route 66, where we bring color and life to Rare Historical Photos you’ve never seen. The team here at Sealed in Time are grateful that you have taken the time to enjoy our videos of Rare History Photos! Our goal is to document moments in Rare Photos of History you've never seen in a manner that is not only entertaining but also informational and educational. We hope that you are able to relax and enjoy a journey into the past with us.
We understand that not everyone enjoys Rare Vintage photos that have been colorized, that is why we try to put as much focus on the black and white photos as we do onto the colorized photos. Life is full of color, and it can often be hard to remember when looking at old photos, that life was just as colorful as it is today. Our custom colorization is meant to present just some of the possibilities of what life looked like in some of these photos. We don't offer perfection, just some possible glimpses into the past.
Hope you enjoy:
+ A Union POW after being freed from Andersonville Prison, Georgia, 1865.
+ Lizzie van Zyl, a 7-year-old Boer girl, died of typhoid fever after being deliberately starved in a British concentration camp.
+ The alleged connection between Alexander Pushkin and Alexandre Dumas, both with Black ancestors who were European army generals.
+ Ukrainian Su-27 crashes at Sknyliv Air Show, causing 77 deaths and over 500 injuries.
+ Testing prototype space suit in Mojave Desert, 1962
+ Polish border guard and his horse drinking from a stream in Bieszczady Mountains during patrol.
+ Princeton sophomores after a brutal snowball fight, 1893.
+ Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Indians. 1890.
+ Charles Thompson, the only black child at the school, being greeted by classmates after the Supreme Court's ruling on racial segregation.
+ Willem Arondeus, a Dutch artist and author, led the bombing of Amsterdam public records office during the Nazi occupation.
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