Vintage Photographs that are Made for Sharing Online – in Pictures

Fascinating historical pictures posted on Twitter by Retronaut, IndiaHistoryPic and HistoryinPix – from the factory workers pressing Rubber Soul, to the construction of the Hoover dam and India's first female doctor

Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov, circa 1909.
1910s Imperial Russia in colour
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was paid by the Tsar to capture images of the Russian Empire. The colour wipes away the years like polish wiping away tarnish from a ring. Here, three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov, circa 1909. Photograph: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii/Library of Congress. Shared by Retronaut
The construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930's.
1930s Construction of the Hoover dam
Is this taken at an angle to look more dangerous than it is? We bemoan health and safety – and then we see something like this. Photograph: AWS.org. Shared by Retronaut
The earliest reliably dated photograph of a person on Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 1838.
1838 Paris street scene
The earliest reliably dated photograph of a person – on Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 1838. Photograph: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. Shared by Retronaut
Colour photograph of Piccadilly Circus, 1949.
1949 Colour photograph of Piccadilly Circus 
Taken on Kodachrome by Chalmers Butterfield, this picture is bright enough and sharp enough to look like a digital photograph. People aren’t used to a past that looks this crisp, which is why the picture got shared so much. Photograph: Chalmers Butterfield. Shared by Retronaut

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