# More Cool Historical Photos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887 "2014-04-11T18:04:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/1 "2014-04-11T18:04:51Z")
Some of these we’ve seen, some not. There’s some really good ones, including childhood pics of Hitler, bin Laden, young Bill and Hillary, Che Guevara possibly taking a bong hit, etc. I love this kind of stuff. > **[Jason Gaston](https://jasongaston.net/)** > > I've come here to do two things: Blog and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/2 "2014-04-11T18:28:22Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Che Guevara possibly taking a bong hit, Being Argentinian, he’s [drinking mate,](http://oasiscollections.com/homepage/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Mate-tea-Argentina-600x400.jpg) the [national drink.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)) It’s traditionally sipped from a gourd using a metal straw. [Here’s another photo.](http://www.austingunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/che-drinking-mate.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/3 "2014-04-11T18:56:29Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Being Argentinian, he’s [drinking mate,](http://oasiscollections.com/homepage/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Mate-tea-Argentina-600x400.jpg) the [national drink.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)) It’s traditionally sipped from a gourd using a metal straw. [Here’s another photo.](http://www.austingunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/che-drinking-mate.jpg) 😃 My historical photo threads often don’t garner much attention, so I took artistic liberties with that picture…plus with his long hair, Guevara goatee and his slant-eyed expression he looks kinda stoned… (I honestly didn’t know it was a traditional drink, but I didn’t really think it was a bong either) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/4 "2014-04-11T19:25:22Z")
Interesting that Shatner is missing from the Shuttle photo. And that shit-brown polyester leisure suit … hoo-boy! Why-oh-why did anyone _ever_ dress like that?!? :smack: Personal aside: The place where the plane crashed in Moscow is now a huge intersection of (as I recall) four different thoroughfares. The language school where I used to teach is just up the hill and around the corner from it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/5 "2014-04-11T19:30:29Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > 😃 > > My historical photo threads often don’t garner much attention, so I took artistic liberties with that picture…plus with his long hair, Guevara goatee and his slant-eyed expression he looks kinda stoned… > > (I honestly didn’t know it was a traditional drink, but I didn’t really think it was a bong either) If it was a “traditional, national drink,” odds are it was pretty powerful in any case! :o ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/6 "2014-04-11T19:33:29Z")
Wow. Thank you for that. I really enjoyed all the photos, even the less cheerful ones. Those with famous (or infamous) figures as children really make you think - I mean, right now the next legendary President or world changing musician or psychotic maniac is happily swinging on some monkey bars . . . ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/7 "2014-04-11T19:46:06Z")
I wonder if the photos of Custer and the Mississippi steamboats were hand-colored or experiments with new technology. **These pictures** blew me away when I first saw them ten years ago: [http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia\_in\_color\_a\_century\_ago.html](http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html) That Hillary was a cute little bit o’ stuff back in the day, eh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/8 "2014-04-11T19:55:38Z")
Here is another link with the entire Prokudin-Gorskii collection. The pictures are nothing short of stunning! > **[S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii – Photographer to the Tsar](http://www.gridenko.com/pg/)** > > Tribute page created as an exercise for the Free Code Camp. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/9 "2014-04-11T20:01:41Z")
I’d seen one of those photos before, the one from the San Francisco Earthquake, in a book about the quake. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/10 "2014-04-11T20:11:41Z")
That photo of Mussolini’s headquarters in Rome creeps me out big time. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/11 "2014-04-11T20:21:58Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > [Jason Gaston – I've come here to do two things: Blog and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum.](http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2013/march/rare_historical_photos.htm) Can someone interpret Einstein’s report card (third photo from the top)? Does “G” stand for “GOTT IN HIMMEL IS THIS GUY SMART!?!”? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/12 "2014-04-11T20:42:28Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Can someone interpret Einstein’s report card (third photo from the top)? Does “G” stand for “GOTT IN HIMMEL IS THIS GUY SMART!?!”? They’re not "G"s, they’re sixes. Students were graded on a numerical scale; presumably, 3 (the grade he got in French) is average, while 6 (which he got in Math and Physics) is beyond excellent. In the States, he would have gotten C and A+. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/13 "2014-04-11T20:45:55Z")
The other grades are German Language and Literature … 5 English … NA Italian … 5 History … 6 Geography … 4 Chemistry … 5 Natural History … 5 Art … 4 Technical Drawing … 4 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/14 "2014-04-11T22:34:07Z")
I prefer [this version](http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/a4/54/6c/a4546c18b38eebce61c95a71873b1682.jpg) of the Einstein photo. The guy on the left was my grandfather. The photo you liked was in his house for years. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/15 "2014-04-11T22:39:24Z")
“Stalin goofing around” Immediately after the picture was taken, he had the photographer shot, and his family sent to the Siberian gulag. Just ‘goofing around.’ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/16 "2014-04-11T22:44:34Z")
“The only photograph of a living Quagga from 1870.” According to Wikipedia, there were 5 photos. They have two more pictures. If you can’t trust random websites for facts, who can you trust? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/17 "2014-04-11T22:46:02Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > That photo of Mussolini’s headquarters in Rome creeps me out big time. Yeah, that’s a really weird picture. One of my favorites in the collection is the one with the liberated Jewish prisoner holding a rifle to the back of a captured Nazi soldier. Talk about poetic justice. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/18 "2014-04-11T22:46:31Z")
For some reason, I liked seeing that Einstein’s desk was a cluttered mess. Kind of like his hair. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/19 "2014-04-11T22:52:24Z")
> [@Esox\_Lucius](#): > > For some reason, I liked seeing that Einstein’s desk was a cluttered mess. Kind of like his hair. I thought the same thing. I also thought that if someone like the maid or something cleaned it up and organized it that he wouldn’t have been able to find anything. “Where’s my napkin with e=mc2 on it? It was just right here!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887/20 "2014-04-11T23:59:10Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I thought the same thing. I also thought that if someone like the maid or something cleaned it up and organized it that he wouldn’t have been able to find anything. > > “Where’s my napkin with e=mc2 on it? It was just right here!” > > 😃 [Squareeed away.](http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4686326/Einstein+s+Epiphany/) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cool-historical-photos/685887.md?page=2)