Soon after the first camera image was captured back in 1816, photographs began to be used to document history. When we look back at old black and white film-processed images it's possible, when the shot is powerful enough, to feel instantly catapulted back in time. We've compiled a collection of 15 striking photographs from bygone decades that are sure to send you back in time! Take a look!
A woman in West Berlin speaks to her mother in the East over the Berlin Wall, sometime in the 1960's.
A child, unfortunately, made blind by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. This photo was taken in 1945!
Jewish physician, Eduard Bloch, the family doctor of Hitler. He was protected by the Gestapo and allowed to emigrate to the US.
An exotic dancer demonstrates that her underwear was too large to have exposed herself, after undercover police officers arrested her in Florida!
John J. Wilper Jnr. was sent by the Army intelligence unit to arrest Hideki Tojo (the man in the armchair), but found him slumped and injured, after he tried to kill himself by shooting himself in the chest!
Vietnam veterans protest against the war in 1970.
The first-ever 'McDonald's' stand, which opened in California, 1948.
These ex-prisoners of war are celebrating as their plane takes off from Vietnam!
A native woman operates a switchboard in 1925.
The Tug of War team from 'Bowdoin College', in 1891.
US Marines after three days of combat in Vietnam, in 1966!
This was taken in 1968. Robert F. Kennedy's wife is seen comforting him after he is mortally wounded by an assassin.
The Virginia Civil War, 1863. A newspaper vendor poses with Union soldiers.
This is what was going on behind the scenes of that iconic Marilyn Monroe shot!
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