Time Travel Through Unearthed Historical Images that Tell Untold Stories

#1 You’re a 19-year-old kid, critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

It's November 14, 1965, LZ (Landing Zone) X-Ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1, and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away that your CO (Commanding Officer) has ordered the medevac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, knowing you're not getting out. Your family is half a world away, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear the sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. It doesn't seem real because there are no medevac markings on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not medevac, so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the medevacs were ordered not to come, he's coming anyway. He drops in and sits in the machine gun fire, loading 3 of you at a time. He then flies you out through the gunfire to the doctors, nurses, and safety. He kept coming back, 13 more times, until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some wouldn't have made it without Captain Freeman and his Huey. Medal of Honor recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 80 in Boise, Idaho. I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, Medal of Honor winner Captain Ed Freeman.

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#2 A Victorian couple trying not to laugh while getting their portraits done, 1890s.

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#3 In 1922, scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time.

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#4 During WWII military training, Gilbert Bradley was in love and exchanged hundreds of letters with his sweetheart, who signed only with the initial “G”.

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#5 Married couple Mildred and Richard Loving answer questions at a press conference the day after the US Supreme Court ruled in their favor in Loving v. Virginia, June 13, 1967.

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#6 “There’s no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid.” Rest in peace Robbie Coltrane. Thank you for being part of something so special.

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#7 US athlete Jesse Owens salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump after defeating Nazi Germany’s Lutz Long during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

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#8 Members of the Owls, a black women’s softball team in the 1930s.

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#9 Cats that sailed on ships until the mid-20th century to catch rodents had passports signed with their paw prints.

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#10 Insane to think Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin both owned the same tortoise.

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#11 A little boy has a surprise for his girlfriend… 🙂

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#12 1938.

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#13 Cheri, a Great Dane puppy, in deep sleep moments after stealing 5 lbs of ham off the kitchen counter, 1953.

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#14 Life Magazine, July 25, 1949.

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#15 1953: Cairo Mary, a bouncer at Shanghai Reds (5th and Beacon in San Pedro) escorts a customer to the door.

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#16 A girl and her kitten, 1931.

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#17 Sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, shooting over her shoulder using a hand mirror, 1899.

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#18 Marilyn Monroe, 1939.

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#19 Film actress Fay Webb with her pet goose, which is wearing an attractive pair of glasses, 1925.

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#20 Carrie Fisher on vacation in Europe, 1971.

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#21 The picture is more than 80 years old, and the quality is grainy, but the scene is incredibly significant in the history of the British monarchy.

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#22 The teeniest tiniest stylist. 1950s.

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#23 Mailman N. Sorenson poses with his heavy Christmas deliveries in Chicago, 1929.

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#24 Letter from John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe.

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#25 This photo, taken at the turn of the century, shows Jack Daniel (in the white hat) seated next to George Green, the son of Nathan “Nearest” Green, who was the first black master distiller in America.

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#26 Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the Space Division of General Dynamics, 1964.

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#27 Boy with his boar, 1930.

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#28 The Futuro was a prefabricated house built between the late 1960s and 1970s. Fewer than a hundred were made.

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#29 USA, Nevada, 1977. Wild horses.

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#30 An ad from the 1930s.

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#31 Good morning by The Daily Mirror, England, April 4, 1944.

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#32 A V-shaped bed invented in 1932, supporting the body perfectly at every point and thus promotes better rest.

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#33 This session was to be the last one between Marilyn Monroe by Andre De Dienes, even though he asked to take photos of her several years later.

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#34 Cleaning women washing a crucifix, 1938.

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#35 New Orleans, summer of 1970.

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#36 Cow shoes used by moonshiners in the Prohibition days to disguise their footprints, 1924.

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#37 Christmas, 1974.

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#38 An Edwardian woman dressed the part of a handsome dandy writes a message to her lover, “Hello Kid:- How you be?

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#39 “Crash Diet” for women published by Vogue in 1977.

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#40 Stroboscopic photograph of the New York City Ballet’s production of Jewels, 1967.

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#41 Causes of death in London, 1632.

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#42 Pelé dining with his parents, in 1958.

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#43 A dinner party at the Hotel Astor in New York City in 1904.

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#44 Hop pickers on stilts in Faversham, England, 1920.

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#45 Luis Camnitzer, The Photograph, 1981.

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#46 Danish Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen with his first wife, Navarana Mequpaluk, in 1912.

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#47 To appear headless while taking a photo, aka “Horsemanning,” was a popular way to pose in the 1920s.

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#48 Missionary being eaten by a jaguar (by Noé León, 1907).

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#49 This is what hanging out in a college dorm room looked like in 1910. (University of Illinois).

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#50 Stylist Andrew Richardson caressed by a Russian circus performer, photographed by Steven Meisel as part of the Madonna photo essay ‘Flesh + Fantasy’ for Rolling Stone Magazine, 1991.

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#51 George, John, and Paul cheering up a sick girl in the hospital while they were visiting Ringo.

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#52 Des Moines Tribune, Iowa, December 20, 1928.

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#53 A group of 1940s students doing their schoolwork while drinking some Coca Cola.

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#54 A walk at dusk, 1830s, by Caspar David Friedrich.

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#55 Love letter of Frida Kahlo sent to Nickolas Muray, 1931.

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#56 Young boys decorate a bare tree with plastic blossoms near a busy street, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 1963.

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#57 Love this photo. It’s so dark and otherworldly, like a little fairy-cat captured at dusk. 1960s.

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#58 “The Thinker” (1930) by Hiromu Kira.

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#59 Lyndon Johnson listening to a tape from his son-in-law, sent from Vietnam, 1968.

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#60 This was the monthly ration for each Polish citizen during the early to mid-1980s.

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#61 The moment she went away.

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#62 This is Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, photographed after being institutionalized on North Brother Island in New York, 1909.

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#63 A couple drinking beer at an inner tube floating party on the Apple River, Somerset, WI, 1941.

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#64 NYC parking, 1930.

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#65 Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo the Lion (the mascot for the Hollywood film studio MGM), 1957.

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#66 I don’t know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you.

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#67 One of the tallest women in history, Anna Haining Bates, at 7’11” (241 cm), poses for a photo with her 7’8″ (234 cm) husband, Martin Van Buren Bates in the 1870s.

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#68 Boy mesmerized by Tina Turner ~ The Gold Rush Festival, Stockton, CA ~ September 1969. Photo by Robert Altman.

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#69 Linda Blair passes the time with a bit of knitting in between takes while filming on the set of The Exorcist.

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#70 Vintage photographs of Aurora Borealis.

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#71 A tree full of baby opossums, 1958. By Charles Philip Fox.

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#72 Herion Dance School, Stuttgart, Germany, 1927. Photo by Paul Isenfels.

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#73 Cigarette holder for nudists, 1938.

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#74 A group of five transsexual women in Paris – Miriam, Nana, Jacky, Gine & Sabrina. Photo by Christer Strömholm, 1959.

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#75 1938 Vanity.

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#76 Plymouth Barracuda, 1965. Plymouth wanted to show off the fact that the Barracuda was available in a greater range of colors than Ford’s Mustang, hence a Cuda striped with 17 colors.

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#77 A student sitting under a cherry tree sketching the blossom as a woman in a kimono looks on, Japan, 1950s.

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#78 New York City (1942). Photo by Helen Levitt.

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#79 1966.

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#80 Ava Gardner by Arnold Newman, 1949.

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#81 Paris, 1971.

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#82 Buchan Caves, Gippsland, Australia. 14th April 1930.

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#83 Undated pages from one of Marilyn Monroe’s diaries.

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#84 Showgirl with a stuffed bird in a cage on her hindquarters at the Latin Quarter nightclub, New York, 1952.

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#85 Running white deer, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1967. Photo by Paul Caponigro.

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#86 1970s.

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#87 Twiggy is seen in the Shinkansen Bullet Train at Tokyo Station, Japan on October 20, 1967. Photo by The Asahi Shimbun.

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#88 New Zealand, 1983.

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#89 The morning routine of England’s Princess Margaret, 1955.

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#90 A young Carrie Fisher.

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#91 New York City, 1981.

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#92 A few magical sylphs of the Boston Ballet in the garden of the Gardner Museum in 1964.

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#93 National Geographic October 1984.

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#94 Marilyn Monroe photographed by Joseph Jasgur, 1946.

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#95 Woman being arrested for wearing one-piece bathing suits, 1920s.

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#96 After he allegedly slept with 4,000 women, Mick Jagger decided to seek help with his addiction.

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#97 Two men passing breakfast tea from the kitchen car on a moving train, due to a door being locked between the train cars, on a railway from Peshawar to Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 1983.

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#98 Blossoming Van Gogh (1853-1890).

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#99 A doorkeeper looking at a couple, 1950s.

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#100 Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 1950.

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#101 Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place. Mt. Rainier, Washington, 1960.

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