50 Extremely Rare “Before And After” Historical Pictures That Will Completely And Totally Change Your Perspective On The World
1.The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC in 1907…
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2.And the Lincoln Memorial 100 years later:
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3.Hong Kong circa 1920…
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4.And Hong Kong today:
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5.The Azure Swimming Pool in Chernobyl before the nuclear disaster…
6.And the same swimming pool today:
Erik Peterson / Alamy Stock Photo
7.The Mayan temple at Chichen Itza in the 1860s before it was restored…
8.And the same temple today:
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9.The New York City skyline in 1931…
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10.And the New York City skyline today:
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11.Nickelodeon Studios in the 1990s…
12.And Nickelodeon studios today:
13.The great promenade deck of the Titanic in 1912…
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14.And the same deck on the Titanic today:
Maximum Film / Alamy Stock Photo
15.The “back” of the Hoover Dam prior to the dam being flooded with water…
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo
16.And the same side of the Hoover Dam today:
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17.Mount St. Helens one day before it erupted in 1980…
USGS / Alamy Stock Photo
18.And Mount St. Helens today:
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19.Tokyo in March of 1945…
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20.And Tokyo today:
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21.The face of the Statue of Liberty before it was installed onto the monument…
NPS Photo / Alamy Stock Photo
22.And the Statue of Liberty’s face today:
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23.Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the start of his first term as President in 1933…
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive
24.And this the last picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever taken, snapped just one day before his death in 1945:
He was 63 years old in this picture.
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25.Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it…
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26.And Mount Rushmore today:
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27.Main Street in Los Angeles in 1897…
Print Collector / The Print Collector/Heritage Images
28.And Main Street in Los Angeles 50 years later:
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29.The Berlin Wall in 1969…
Express Newspapers / Stringer
30.And the same section of the Berlin Wall today:
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31.The statue of Anubis that was found inside King Tut’s tomb…
Which makes it over 3,000 years old.
Album / Alamy Stock Photo
32.And the statue today:
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33.The Woodstock Festival in 1969…
Clayton Call / Redferns
34.And that same field today:
Orjan F. Ellingvag / Corbis via Getty Images
35.Abraham Lincoln when he became president in 1861…
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36.And what he looked like four short years later, in 1865:
He quite literally had seen some things.
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37.Machu Pichu before any restoration…
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38.And Machu Picchu today:
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39.This is the Times Building, the center of New York’s Times Square, under construction in 1903…
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40.And that same area over a hundred years later:
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41.The Singapore skyline in 2000…
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42.And that same skyline today:
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43.The city of Seattle in 1907…
Alpha / Alamy
44.And the city of Seattle today:
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45.The Hollywood sign when it was first put up…
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46.And the Hollywood sign today:
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47.Queen Elizabeth II when she was 18…
Lisa Sheridan / Getty Images
48.And one of the last pictures ever taken of Queen Elizabeth II, taken only two days before her death in September 2022:
WPA Pool / Getty Images
49.Stonehenge before it was restored…
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50.And Stonehenge today:
Dea / De Agostini via Getty Images
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