Historical Photographs That Might Change Our Perspective

Photographers have photographed everything from battles and protest marches to scientific breakthroughs and even space landings since the introduction of the camera in the early 1800s, allowing everyone to "witness" these exceptional events in some way.

The Facebook group 'Old Photographs' has amassed a large collection of such fascinating historical incidents, both large and tiny. So let's take a look at some of its top posts, after all, chances are, each of us will find something that will help us to see the past in a new light.

Some things, like a flat tire slowing down a trip, haven't really changed much in the last hundred years. Others, like the good old innertube shown here, have faded mostly away. Who can remember some of the creative ways that these inner tubes were used?

Boys will be boys. (Undated)

A quiet moment of rest in the heart of the great depression (library of congress)

A New York Central Mercury train is dwarfed by Cleveland’s Union Station, November 1936. Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts

Times Square, as seen 102 years ago.

Tiny tandem riders in Dublin, Ireland (undated).

Learning from the master. (Undated)

There is modern beauty in this 1923 photograph of Lota Cheek.

1950s: the decade when televisions dominated and changed the world.

Kickin it at the coffee shop. (1934, Los Angeles)

Actress Bessie Love checking out a 1927 Willys-Knight Roadster.

[Bessie Love was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies. With a small frame and delicate features, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies].

An immigrant family at New York's Ellis Island about to embark on the chase of their dreams. So many Americans can connect with this. This could be anyone's ancestors standing there.

Do-it-yourself toy horse. (1890s)

The most mobile home of all. (1926)

Planes fly between the towers and pedestrians cross as part of the celebration of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in May of 1937.

Happy Mother's Day to all the irreplaceable moms out there. To be loved by mom is to be given the world. (Photo date, 1900)

The winter of 1880-1881 in Minnesota was no laughing matter.

Nearly 100 years later, camper culture is going strong.

Della Crewe took a trip meandering through the country from Waco, Texas to the Big Apple, New York, 5300 miles in all. With her all the way on a Harley Davidson sidecar was her dog Troubles. The year was 1915.

Hands free phone technology, 1927.

Source: The Facebook group 'Old Photographs'