12 Rare And Amazing Photos You Have Probably Never Seen
Here is my second installment of rare, historical photos that you have probably never seen before – that is unless you are a frequent visitor to my Facebook page where some of these photos have appeared.
Photographs have a way of telling a story like no other medium, and some photos – once they have been seen – are with us always, tucked away in the recesses of our subconscious until something brings them to the surface again. And that’s a good thing. We need to remember our history, warts and all. George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” So let’s remember our history; its beauty, its accomplishments, and its tragic failures, if for no other reason than it’s our history, and we’ve invested so much into it.
Enjoy…
Using horses to move a house – San Francisco, 1908.
The winter of 1880-1881 in Minnesota.
In the 1950s, Russian scientist, Vladimir Demikhov, created a two-headed dog. Although he may appear to be somewhat of a mad scientist, Demikhov was a pioneer in organ transplant techniques.
Niagara Falls frozen over, 1883.
Australian policemen racing motorcycle chariots, 1936.
Helen, an American Indian telephone and switchboard operator, Montana, 1925.
Roland, a 4,000-pound elephant seal, is given a snow bath by his Berlin Zoo handler, 1930s.
The youngest mom in history, Lina Medina was just 5 years, 7 months, when she gave birth to her 6 lb. son. They suspected the father of rape and arrested him in 1939, but the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. Remarkably, Lina had a full-functioning reproductive system and got her first period at the age of 4 months.
A disgruntled dental patient, 1920s.
“Uncle” Fred Messer’s life spanned three centuries. He was born in 1792, 16 years after the United States won its independence, and lived to see automobiles roll along roads, dying at the age of 115 in 1907. (North Carolina.)
In 1922, at the University of Toronto, two scientists, Dr. Banting and Dr. Best went to a hospital ward with children who were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. They went from bed to bed and injected the children with the new purified extract – insulin. As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first child injected began to awaken. One by one, all of the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom became a place of joy and hope.
The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888.
Mike is an award-winning Western author, living in central Wisconsin, who began his writing career while living and exploring the plains and mountains of Colorado and Montana. He has been married to his redheaded sweetheart, Tami, since 1989. He is a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist three years in a row. His debut novel is the winner of the Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award for Western fiction and was a Finalist for two separate Peacemaker Awards. His short stories have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and are available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online retailers, as well as brick-and-mortar bookstores. His first Western novel, The Sons of Philo Gaines, was released in November 2020. It is available everywhere books are sold.
Mike is a member of Western Writers of America and Western Fictioneers.
