15 images that show us some historical facts from a different perspective
![15 images that show us some historical facts from a different perspective](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/original/15903.jpg)
Probably it has happened, while you were attending school, that you studied historical events or characters and were not able to connect them to something concrete, or human --- as if they were only numbers and words printed between the pages of a book.
This feeling is quite understandable, because, for many events in history, we do not have the actual visual documentation necessary to construct a realistic mental image.
But, fortunately, in some cases, this can be remedied! As a matter of fact, here are 15 vintage images that illustrate facts and events that are certainly well known to you.
1. Coca-Cola bottles in all of their various states of evolution
![1. Coca-Cola bottles in all of their various states of evolution](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_1.jpg)
2. One of the oldest aerial photos taken of the city of Boston in 1960.
![2. One of the oldest aerial photos taken of the city of Boston in 1960.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_2.jpg)
3. A cleaner sweeps the floor of the New York Stock Exchange immediately after the Wall Street crash (1929)
![3. A cleaner sweeps the floor of the New York Stock Exchange immediately after the Wall Street crash (1929)](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_3.jpg)
4. A crowd meets in Times Square in 1945 to celebrate WWII Nazi Germany's surrender.
![4. A crowd meets in Times Square in 1945 to celebrate WWII Nazi Germany's surrender.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_4.jpg)
5. Otto Frank, the father of Anna Frank, returns to visit the house where he hid with his family. He was the only survivor.
![5. Otto Frank, the father of Anna Frank, returns to visit the house where he hid with his family. He was the only survivor.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_5.jpg)
6. The last photograph portraying Nikola Tesla only six days before his death, in 1943
![6. The last photograph portraying Nikola Tesla only six days before his death, in 1943](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_6.jpg)
7. The supply of objects and accessories that the Finnish government guaranteed and provided to new mothers with few economic resources in 1939.
![7. The supply of objects and accessories that the Finnish government guaranteed and provided to new mothers with few economic resources in 1939.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_7.jpg)
8. US President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to the famous "anguish tape" dated July 31, 1968.
![8. US President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to the famous "anguish tape" dated July 31, 1968.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_8.jpg)
The American President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to an audio tape from Vietnam, dated July 31, 1968, from his son-in-law, Captain Charles Robb who explains to him in detail what is actually happening on the ground in Vietnam.
9. Iranian women in the streets during a mass protest against being obligated to wear the hijab (veil) in public in 1979.
![9. Iranian women in the streets during a mass protest against being obligated to wear the hijab (veil) in public in 1979.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_9.jpg)
10. French engineers meet their English colleagues under the Channel Tunnel during excavations.
![10. French engineers meet their English colleagues under the Channel Tunnel during excavations.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_10.jpg)
11. One of the many boxes full of gold wedding rings belonging to people deported to German concentration camps.
![11. One of the many boxes full of gold wedding rings belonging to people deported to German concentration camps.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_11.jpg)
12. The interior of an airplane as it appeared in 1930.
![12. The interior of an airplane as it appeared in 1930.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_12.jpg)
13. The city of New York covered with toxic and polluting fumes before the United States Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970.
![13. The city of New York covered with toxic and polluting fumes before the United States Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_13.jpg)
14. A surreal field of wheat in the heart of New York City.
![14. A surreal field of wheat in the heart of New York City.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_14.jpg)
15. Photos of Hiroshima before and after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945.
![15. Photos of Hiroshima before and after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945.](https://img.wtvideo.com/images/article/list/15903_15.jpg)