Thread of historical photos you've (probably) never seen before 🧵
1. "A few seconds before happiness"
2. The Kiss of Life
Randall Champion accidentally touched a high-voltage line, electrifying himself & stopping his heart. A fellow linemen J.D. Thompson performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived and lived until 2002. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968.
3. Princess Diana in Portofino, Italy, a week before her death. August 1997.
4. The first photo shows heart surgeon Dr. Zbigniew Religa resting after performing the first successful heart transplant in Poland in 1987.
This groundbreaking surgery lasted 23 hours, pushing the boundaries of medical expertise and technology at the time.
The photo also captures a glimpse of his assistant, who can be seen sleeping in the corner.
The bottom photo, taken 25 years later, features Tadeusz Zitkevits, the recipient of the heart transplant. The patient died in 2017 (30 years after the surgery) and he outlived Dr. Religa, who died in 2009.
5. The last photo (colorized) of Hachiko, the faithful dog who waited for over 9 years outside Shibuya Station for his master to return even after he had died.
6. The couple on the Woodstock album cover, still together 50 years later.
7. In front of the world's media, Princess Diana shook the hand of an AIDS victim with no gloves on, publicly challenging the notion that HIV/Aids was passed from person to person by touch.
This event was instrumental in trying to end the stigma against the disease.
8. Soldier’s face before and after the war, 1941-1945
9. Shooting the original MGM logo, 1928
10. Camberley Kate and her stray dogs in England, 1962.
She never turned a stray dog away, taking care of more than 600 dogs in her lifetime.
11. Sophia Loren at the Venice Film Festival in 1955
12. The Statue of Liberty towering over Paris just before it was disassembled and shipped to New York, 1884.
13. Policeman stops traffic just for a cat to carry its kittens across the street, New York, New York, 1925.
14. Two boys pose for a photo while drying pasta. Italy. 1929.
15. Bride leaving her recently bombed home to get married, London, 1940
16. Colorized photo of Titanic Survivors Charlotte Collyer and her 8-year-old daughter Marjorie after they finally made it back to America.
17. A woman cuts her birthday cake in Iran, 1973
18. Five-year-old Albert Einstein, 1884
19. Spanish Flu, 1918. Family portrait.
20. Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning in 1971.
She fell 2 miles to the ground, was strapped to her seat, and survived 11 days alone in the Amazon Jungle until she was rescued by local fishermen. She was 17-year-old at the time.
21. Nurses showing a set of newly born triplets to a surprised father in a New York City hospital, 1946.
22. Lipstick Tester, 1960
23. Central Park, NY during the Great Depression, 1933 (original color photo)
24. Safety standards in the 1960s
25. Soldier coming home to his daughter after WWII, 1945
26. The models of "American Gothic"
27. Cornish grandmother mending her grandson's short pants, 1907.
28. One of the last known photos of the Titanic afloat, taken on April 12, 1912.
29. Artist Man Ray and his model, Kiki de Montparnasse, during the preparation of the shot "Le Violon d'Ingres", one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century (1924).
30. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun's tomb, 1922 (after being untouched for approximately 3245 years).
Thank you for reading! If you enjoyed this thread, please share the first post and follow me for more content: @JamesLucasIT
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.