Vintage photographs that are made for sharing online – in pictures

Fascinating historical pictures posted on Twitter by Retronaut, IndiaHistoryPic and HistoryinPix – from the factory workers pressing Rubber Soul, to the construction of the Hoover dam and India's first female doctor
  
  


Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov, circa 1909.
1910s Imperial Russia in colour

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was paid by the Tsar to capture images of the Russian Empire. The colour wipes away the years like polish wiping away tarnish from a ring. Here, three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov, circa 1909. Photograph: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii/Library of Congress. Shared by Retronaut Photograph: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii/Library of Congress
The construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930's.
1930s Construction of the Hoover dam
Is this taken at an angle to look more dangerous than it is? We bemoan health and safety – and then we see something like this. Photograph: AWS.org. Shared by Retronaut Photograph: Public domain
The earliest reliably dated photograph of a person on Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 1838.
1838 Paris street scene
The earliest reliably dated photograph of a person – on Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 1838. Photograph: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. Shared by Retronaut Photograph: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Colour photograph of Piccadilly Circus, 1949.
1949 Colour photograph of Piccadilly Circus
Taken on Kodachrome by Chalmers Butterfield, this picture is bright enough and sharp enough to look like a digital photograph. People aren’t used to a past that looks this crisp, which is why the picture got shared so much. Photograph: Chalmers Butterfield. Shared by Retronaut Photograph: Chalmers Butterfield/Public Domain
Brighton Swimming Club, 1863
1863 Brighton Swimming Club
Note the man with his foot on his knee is wearing a pair of braces on his trunks. Photograph: Brighton Swimmin Club. Shared by Retronaut
 Photograph: Brighton Swimming Club
Taria, A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, taken around 1857.
Taria, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. Photograph: Brown University. Shared by Retronaut Photograph: Brown University
Sarla Thakral,first Indian woman to fly. In 1936 she earned an pilot license and flew a Gypsy Moth.
Sarla Thakral, the first Indian woman to fly. In 1936 she earned her pilot's licence and flew a Gypsy Moth. Photograph: Viv Chavan. Shared by IndiaHistoryPic Photograph: Viv Chavan
Lieutenant CH Mecham and Lt Surgeon Anderson of the British Hodson's Horse cavalry regiment, in India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Lieutenant CH Mecham and Lieutenant Surgeon Anderson of the British Hodson's Horse cavalry regiment, in India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Photograph: Henry Guttmann/Getty Images. Shared by IndiaHistoryPic Photograph: Henry Guttmann/Getty Images
Members of the 'National Federation of Indian Women' demonstrating outside the Supreme Court, New Delhi as they demand the re-opening of the 'Mathura rape case'.
Members of the National Federation of Indian Women demonstrating outside the supreme court in New Delhi in 1980, as they demand the re-opening of the 'Mathura rape case'. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images. Shared by IndiaHistoryPic Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
The Calcutta National Library partition of books during partition of India and Pakistan, 1947.
1947 The Calcutta National Library
The partition of books being made during the partition of India and Pakistan. Photograph: Time/Getty Images. Shared by IndiaHistoryPic Photograph: Time/Getty Images
1885 :: Anandi Joshi (L) The First Female Doctor from India as student at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
1885: Anandi Joshi, the first female doctor from India as student at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Shared by IndiaHistoryPic Photograph: Public Domain
Aircraft owned by The Hindu Newspaper to deliver copies of the paper to various destinations in Karnataka in 1963
An aircraft owned by the Hindu newspaper to deliver copies of the paper to various destinations in Karnataka in 1963. Photograph: The Hindu. Shared by IndiaHistoryPic Photograph: The Hindu
A portrait of model Twiggy in 1966.
A portrait of model Twiggy in 1966. Photograph: Popperfoto. Shared by HistoryInPix Photograph: Popperfoto/Popperfoto.com
Boxer Gus Waldorf boxing against a bear in 1949.
Boxer Gus Waldorf taking on a bear in 1949. Photograph: Michael Rougier/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Shared by HistoryInPix Photograph: Michael Rougier/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
1965: Workers on a production line in the EMI factory at Hayes, Middlesex, where the Beatles' new album 'Rubber Soul' is in the final stages of production.
1965: workers on a production line at the EMI factory at Hayes, Middlesex, where the Beatles' new album Rubber Soul is in the final stages of production. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images. Shared by HistoryInPix Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Portrait of American bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, circa 1933.
American bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, 1933. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Shared by HistoryInPix Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A cigarette smoking golfer and his caddy teeing off on the girder of a building under construction in Los Angeles in 1927.
A cigarette smoking golfer and his caddy teeing off on the girder of a building under construction in Los Angeles in 1927. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis. Shared by HistoryInPix Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS
Michael Jordan after winning the 1996 NBA Championship with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls after winning the NBA Championship in 1996. It was Father’s Day right after Jordan’s father died. He collapsed and cried. Photograph: Barry Gossage/NBAE/Getty Images. Shared by HistoryInPix Photograph: Barry Gossage/NBAE/Getty Images
 

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