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...
2.And the Lincoln Memorial 100 years later:
3.Hong Kong circa 1920...
4.And Hong Kong today:
5.The Azure Swimming Pool in Chernobyl before the nuclear disaster...
6.And the same swimming pool today:
7.The Mayan temple at Chichen Itza in the 1860s before it was restored...
8.And the same temple today:
9.The New York City skyline in 1931...
10.And the New York City skyline today:
11.Nickelodeon Studios in the 1990s...
12.And Nickelodeon studios today:
13.The great promenade deck of the Titanic in 1912...
14.And the same deck on the Titanic today:
15.The "back" of the Hoover Dam prior to the dam being flooded with water...
16.And the same side of the Hoover Dam today:
17.Mount St. Helens one day before it erupted in 1980...
18.And Mount St. Helens today:
19.Tokyo in March of 1945...
20.And Tokyo today:
21.The face of the Statue of Liberty before it was installed onto the monument...
22.And the Statue of Liberty's face today:
23.Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the start of his first term as President in 1933...
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.
25.Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it...
26.And Mount Rushmore today:
27.Main Street in Los Angeles in 1897...
28.And Main Street in Los Angeles 50 years later:
29.The Berlin Wall in 1969...
30.And the same section of the Berlin Wall today:
31.The statue of Anubis that was found inside King Tut's tomb...
Which makes it over 3,000 years old.
32.And the statue today:
Striking!
33.The Woodstock Festival in 1969...
34.And that same field today:
35.Abraham Lincoln when he became president in 1861...
36.And what he looked like four short years later, in 1865:
He quite literally had seen some things.
37.Machu Pichu before any restoration...
38.And Machu Picchu today:
39.This is the Times Building, the center of New York's Times Square, under construction in 1903...
40.And that same area over a hundred years later:
41.The Singapore skyline in 2000...
42.And that same skyline today:
43.The city of Seattle in 1907...
44.And the city of Seattle today:
45.The Hollywood sign when it was first put up...
46.And the Hollywood sign today:
47.Queen Elizabeth II when she was 18...
48.And one of the last pictures ever taken of Queen Elizabeth II, taken only two days before her death in September 2022:
49.Stonehenge before it was restored...
50.And Stonehenge today:
