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There's only so much you can fit into a history book, museum or gallery. Often, they're specially curated to tell a specific story about the major turning points that brought us to where we are today. Wars, leaders, political agendas, economic collapses, pandemics and the like tend to get center-stage. That means a lot of the past goes unseen... but that's not to say it was never documented.
Hiding behind the famous and iconic photographs are even more dusty moments in time, begging for a set of modern eyes to scroll over them. That's where accounts like TimeTPhoto come in. With more than 459,000 followers, it's a virtual gallery of the rarest facts, photos and footage from throughout history.
Bored Panda has put together some of the best posts from the page. Expect to see intriguing pics such as a sausage-laden French soldier, Muammar Gaddafi with one of his "lady bodyguards," and the 1820 equivalent of Google. Each fascinating photo has a short back story accompanying it. So sit back, keep scrolling and forget about the current world drama as you get lost in the past. Don't forget to upvote your favorites.
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History textbooks aren't meant to contain a bunch of beautiful pictures and super exciting stories. What you're taught at school, and how you're taught it, can largely depend on where you find yourself, when you were born, and who was in charge of the curriculum.
According to Kate Slater, the assistant dean of student affairs at Brandeis University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, textbook choice in the U.S.A is a highly politicized process in different states. Slater says everything from topics to the tone can differ. "There is no single story of American history," says the expert.
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In 1913, 10-year-old Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma. The best farming land was reserved for whites, so she was given a barren plot. Oil was discovered there, and she became the country's first black millionaire. She was so wealthy that the Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person.
An EdWeek explainer reveals that there are no national history or civics standards in the United States, and that each state develops its own set of criteria for what students should learn. That means 50 states, 50 different differing sets of criteria.
"These guidelines are usually developed by committees of educators, curriculum specialists at the state department of education, academics, and community members," explains the EdWeek article. "States update them periodically—generally every seven to 10 years— through a revision process. State boards of education, which vote to adopt or not adopt revisions, are the final decisionmakers."
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PrettyJoyBird 1 day ago
Love that. She is beautiful. Not one drop of sweat or out of breathe. Effortless & regal.
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Google reviews in 1920
While some educators teach straight from the textbook, others are aware that this might not always be the wisest choice.
“Textbooks are just a version of text, just like every single document that we read to learn about the past," says Sol Rheem, a high school social studies teacher in Massachusetts. "Students should know and understand that the textbook is a source of information, and therefore it has a writer and a context that it was written in and a moment in history that it was written in.”
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Portraits of Native Americans by Carl Moon, 1900s.
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43Duckies 12 hours ago
I have read about how in the very beginning of insulin treatment, there was a hospital with a full ward of children in diabetic comas, waiting for d***h. The doctors started at one end administering insulin injections, and by the time they reached the other end of the ward, the first children were waking up from the comas. To those doctors, not to mention those families, it felt like a literal miracle.
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Peter Bear 16 hours ago
Education does not matter to the American politician, because the American politician wants, nay, NEEDS the American citizen to be uneducated and thus easy to bamboozle.
Christine Caulfield agrees. “The reliance on textbooks differs for every teacher. For me, it was a way to engage students in how to read critically, and it served as a baseline from which we would look at various issues in depth," says the retired high school U.S. history teacher.
"I would take the textbook and, in essence, rip it apart," she revealed. "We would think about whose voices were missing. What was left out was just as important as what was included.”
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Spencers slave no more 1 day ago
She was 19 years old when she swam 21 miles across the Channel in 14 hours 31 minutes, on August 6th 1926. She covered herself in a thick mixture of lard, olive oil and lanolin to protect herself in the frigid waters. Born and raised in New York, Gertrude was a swimmer in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, winning 1 gold and two bronze medals.
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"The exact moment when Harold Whittles, born deaf, hears for the first time after placement of earpiece."
The photo was published in the February 1974 edition of Reader’s Digest, in the article “Unforgettable moments caught on film”.
Photographer Jack Bradley
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Lee Gilliland 16 hours ago
He and his valet, once they knew, went back the their cabins and changed into formal dress. His explanation was, "We have dressed in our best and are prepared to go down as gentlemen. "
The American Historical Society (AHS) notes that while history textbooks convey historical facts, none are born equal.
"No matter what the subject or how large the book, historians are selective about which historical facts to include," write AHS's experts. "A satisfactory history text describes what the key selection criteria have been so that users can assess the validity of the choices and also have an awareness of the potential gaps."
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The AHS site goes on to note that when it comes to world history, if textbooks place less emphasis on certain early periods or geographical regions, they should explain why certain choices were made. The same applies to U.S. history.
"Some sequences of presidents are often summed up without great detail in an effort to discuss the broader social and political trends that characterize the era in question. Again, this kind of selectivity should be briefly noted and explained," says AHS's team.
They add that apart from explaining selectivity in coverage, good textbooks should also explain any gaps in our understanding of certain events.
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Photo of two children - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not. Circa 1901.
That’s all I yam 1 day ago (edited)
There's a great story about Abigail Adams deciding to inoculate her children without her husband's (John Adams) knowledge. At the time, the process of inoculation against smallpox … was a far more dangerous method than the eventual smallpox vaccine would prove to be. Smallpox contracted naturally killed up to thirty percent of its victims, but even two to three percent of those inoculated would still perish, because the process involved inserting a live infection into rent flesh by way of pus-soaked thread. On July 12, 1776, while John was in Philadelphia, she and the family arrived in Boston and the children were inoculated the same day (both she and John had already been inoculated). (Abigail Adams and the Smallpox Inoculation During the Revolution, Journal of the American Revolution)
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Michael Largey 15 hours ago
Instead getting of a red card, they had to say three Hail Marys and make a good act of contrition.
Regardless of what's in your history textbooks, many experts agree that critical thinking is... critical.
"When you have a curriculum that doesn’t teach critical-thinking skills, that doesn’t talk about power, oppression or resilience, you rob these students of the ability to understand what’s happening in their own life in this moment,” says Rheem.
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Spencers slave no more 1 day ago
Affectionately known as Clippies due to clipping each ticket they checked, ensuring there were no fare dodgers.
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Inuk man teaching his boy how to shoot. The man, Allakariallak, was popularly known as Nanook of the North. Circa 1920s
Some experts, like Education Pulse, believe that educators' first priority should be to teach students how to read and interpret the facts of our past themselves. This means providing them with the skills to research and understand history in their own way.
"In the end, it is up to the teacher how they choose to use a textbook in their class. Some may choose to use it as the foundation for their class, some as supplemental material, and some not at all. But however we use these books in our curriculum, we constantly need to look out for the voices that are not represented," notes the Education Pulse site. "If we can do this, we will help our students grow not only in their understanding of history, but in their ability to be a responsible citizen of the world."
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A Japanese woman carrying her children in a bucket on her head, 1900s
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Dinner party for French soldiers with severe facial injuries received during WWI, taken by Henri Manuel in 1925.
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OneHappyPuppy 16 hours ago
She was one of the most decorated female soldiers of WW1, fostered some 30 children after the war. She worked as a cleaning lady at a government building for the remainder of her days and died in abject poverty. She was also my GMILs neighbor
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Lee Gilliland 16 hours ago
Most of the original shots, which were originally black and white, are available in their colored versions on the web and they are fascinating.
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A dog dressed as a man with a cat on its lap, 1950s.
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PrettyJoyBird 1 day ago (edited)
Life seemed difficult from how i have seen depicted described.
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The world's last commercial ocean-going sailing ship - The Pamir - rounding Cape Horn, 1949
Spencers slave no more 1 day ago
The Pamir was a four masted barque built in Hamburg, Germany in 1905, she was known as one of the famous "Flying P-Liners". She operated under German, Italian, Finnish and New Zealand flags throughout her history. She sank in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Azores, during Hurricane Carrie in 1957, with only 6 survivors of the 86 souls on board.
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Bundled-up twins, Russia, 1968
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Large Group of People Walking Along Ruins of Market Street toward Ferry after Earthquake, San Francisco, California, USA, ca. 1906.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago
A Parisian woman with her cat in her cannabis garden, 1910. (Instagram)
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago
"Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on the site of the event. The liquidators are widely credited with limiting both the immediate and long-term damage from the disaster. On the overall recruitment and human scale, it remains one of the largest man-made environmental clean up operations in modern history." (Chernobyl liquidators, Wikipedia)
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An Indian student studying at the University of Madras in Tamil Nadu, 1905. While studying late at night, students use to tie their hair to a nail in the wall to prevent themselves from falling asleep
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Peter Bear 16 hours ago
And nothing's changed since. Many, many studies have show we don't need a 5-day, 40 hour workweek, but yet here we are.
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Michael P. 21 hours ago
Canada used to have a Heinz factory in southwestern Ontario, as the tomatoes for the ketchup were grown there. Unfortunately in 2014, Heinz closed the facility as they moved their operations to the US. That's when most Canadians switched to French's ketchup as they brought the plant once owned by Heinz using the same tomatoes grown in the area.
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Russians playing chess in a park in Moscow, 1950s.
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PrettyJoyBird 1 day ago
She robbed a store with boyfriend Dale and a 3rd accomplice. Dale "unalived" 80yr old shopkeeper. Bfriend sentenced to electric chair. Her and accomplice both rcvd 199 yr prison sentences.
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Bulgarian Soldier Giving His Best Battle Cry for the Camera, ca. 1916
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Eugene the Jeep 14 hours ago
Those underprivileged boys are dressed better than me, but then that's a pretty low bar.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago (edited)
"Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that would make spaceflight possible. He has been called the man who ushered in the Space Age. Two of Goddard's 214 patented inventions, a multi-stage rocket (1914), and a liquid-fuel rocket (1914), were important milestones toward spaceflight." (Robert H. Goddard, Wikipedia)
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A Filipino-American family posing for a family portrait, Philippines 1912
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A man feeding a polar bear and her cubs with milk, Russia, ca. 1950.
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A man browses for books in the old Public library of Cincinnati. The building was demolished in 1955. Today an office building and a parking lot stand where it used to be.
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A woman drinks from a “common cup” attached to a water pump, Chicago, 1899. Note the reactions of the boys behind her.
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A horse mounted cop in action on Tremont Street, Boston, 1920.
Photo by Leslie Jones
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5-year-old Harold Walker picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day, Oklahoma, 1916.
Peter Bear 16 hours ago
This is, quite literally, what Republicans want to bring back. They want longer hours, lower pay, no safety regulations, and the return of child labor. Vote. Them. Out. Every last one.
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Queen Elizabeth II had two "hidden" cousins named Nerissa (left) and Katherine Bowes-Lyom (right) who were both born with severe learning disabilities.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago
"A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the character Christopher Robin was based." "The rest of Christopher Milne's toys – Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and Tigger – were incorporated into Milne's stories" (Winnie-the-Pooh, Wikipedia)
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Spencers slave no more 1 day ago (edited)
The photo actually shows an unfinished section near Lebanon, Missouri ~1926. Route 66 was formally approved in 1926 and was completed in1938.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago
"[Hershey] created his own formula, and the first Hershey bar was produced in 1900." "The factory was in the center of a dairy farmland, but with Hershey's support, houses, businesses, churches and a transportation infrastructure accreted around the factory. The area around the factory eventually became known as the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey and his wife established the Hershey Industrial School with a deed of trust in 1909. In 1918, Hershey transferred the majority of his assets, including control of the company, to the Milton Hershey School Trust fund, to benefit the Hershey Industrial School. The trust fund has a majority of voting shares in the Hershey Company, allowing it to keep control of the company. In 1951, the school was renamed the Milton Hershey School. The Milton Hershey School Trust also has 100% control of Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company, which owns the Hotel Hershey and Hersheypark, among other properties." (Milton S. Hershey, Wikipedia)
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Here’s a 1,342 year-old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" that was felled in 1891 after a team of two men spent 13 days sawing it in the Pacific Northwest.
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Wartime selfie, 1944.
This is U.S. Army Forces 2nd Lieutenant Quentin C. Aanenson with his girlfriend Jacqueline Greer before being sent off to WW2.
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PrettyJoyBird 1 day ago
Google says thats comparable to $1 dollar today. Could have bought a loaf od bread back then. The kids face does not look impressed. I woulda been like "but sir, you are a billionaire haha" hopefully they got sweets/candies and a fun toy.
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Mulberry Street, Manhattan, 1900.
Mulberry Street was at the very center of Manhattan’s Little Italy, an ethnic neighborhood that followed the mass immigration of Italians to New York after the 1880s.
This scene, shot in 1900, shows something of the breadth of activity of Little Italy: vegetable stalls; barefooted children; shoe; boot and clothing merchants; a wagon of barrels and sacks; furniture removal men and blankets; quilts and rugs left out to air (or to sell).
Katherine Forest 15 hours ago
new idea: no corporations are allowed to earn a profit. they are not allowed to own real estate either. we all go back to growing vegetables, selling clothes and bargaining.
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Children in front of the world’s largest log cabin in Portland, Oregon, USA 1938. Built In 1905 burned down In 1964
Chich the witch 15 hours ago
The current largest log building in the world is apparently the Château Montebello in Canada
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Spencers slave no more 1 day ago
On September 20th 1926, the North Side Gáng, led by Hymie Weiss and George "Bugs" Moran, opened fire on the Hawthorne Hotel, Capone's stronghold, in Cicero, Illinois, in retaliation for the dêath of their former leader, Dean O'Banion. A convoy of up to10 vehicles drove slowly past the hotel, firing Tõmmy gûns, pîstols and shõtguns to systematically spray the front of the building and the first floor restaurant. Despite 1000ish rounds, only 4 people were injured, including a mother and her young son hit by glass, which threatened her eyesight. In what was seen as a PR move, Capone covered her medical costs at the best facilities.
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Spencers slave no more 1 day ago
Major General Karl Emil Wrobel, chief medical officer of the Berlin Police, surrendering to Soviet Forces, May 2nd 1945 in Berlin when the city surrendered. The name of the Soviet soldier is unknown.
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Here’s a mugshot of 21-year-old Mary Snowden, prisoner at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary - Kansas, USA, 1900. Mary Snowden was sentenced to five years hard labor and costs in the federal penitentiary after she was convicted of attack with intent to end a life.
The 21-year-old had been married for just over a year when she became prisoner at Leavenworth. Mary probably had both Native American and African American ancestry. It is believed Mary died in 1908 from sustained injuries after she was shot in her thigh during an altercation with a jealous, drunken lover named Bub Williams
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"Children living in shacktown along Mississippi River bottom. Dubuque, Iowa." April 1940.
Kelly Scott 18 hours ago (edited)
My parents lived for a while in Cassville, WI, about 40 miles from Dubuque. Cassville was an...interesting little town. I believe at the time my brothers graduated from the high school there, they were the only two in an advanced math class. No foreign languages were offered. My mom said if a person left their front curtains closed during the day, neighbors gossiped about what might be going on inside. And in a cafe and/or restaurant, servers said they wouldn't refuse to service to a black person, but they'd throw out the glasses they drank from. This was in the late 70s.
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Mugshot of Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia from 1953 to 1980, after he was arrested in 1928 for communist activities.
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Children stand in Mullen’s Alley, 1888.
Photo by Jacob Riis
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Spencers slave no more 1 day ago
The Great Miami Hurricane made landfall on September 18th 1926. The Category 4 storm had sustained wind speeds 138 and 150mph. It left catastrophic damage, took nearly 400 lives and brought an end to the Florida land boom of the 1920s.
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A women is held captive in a wooden crate and left to die of starvation in a remote desert in Mongolia, 1913. It was capital punishment for committing adultery
Spencers slave no more 1 day ago (edited)
This is somewhat erroneous because the woman's crime was not known, nor was her fate, and she wasn't "left to d1e in a remote desert." From what I can find, these wooden crates were typical as prison cells in Mongolia and crimes varied from theft to political activism to homic1de, with sentences from a few weeks to life.
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A young Native-American mother and child, train station c.1930.
Photo taken by Leslie Jones, a photojournalist for the Boston Herald-Traveler.
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These are members of the Fat Men's Club of NY (1904). Members had to be at least 200 pounds, pay a $1 fee to enter and learn a secret handshake and password.
Fat men’s club declined in the 20th century as male obesity transitioned to being perceived as a primarily negative trait.
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