This channel began due to my interest in history and especially rare old photos that really speak to the soul.
As a self-taught pianist & composer, I decided in December 2022 to make a video of old photos set to my music. That first video received over 100,000 views and 1,500 subscribers in the first 3 weeks alone. The vast majority of comments were very positive. So, I'll keep making theses videos for as long as they are enjoyed.
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That is absolutely incredible ❤️ … I have posted several tail gunner photos in prior videos … they absolutely fascinate me … every year I go to a special Memorial service and make it a point to seek out every single ww2 vet and thank them … There aren’t many left … This year I met a 101 year old submariner and a 102 year old Tuskegee airman … such an honor These ww2 veterans are gods to me ❤️
Not true. That was the legend told by the charlatans who bought her from dry dock and turned her into a museum. She was a convict ship but only held prisoners in dock. She was a cargo ship then a prison ship... but NEVER a convict transport ship... that was all made up by entrepreneurs. None of the artifacts were on that ship. Although they were likely used on actual transport ships. ... Just not the success Heres the TRUE story. www.youtube.com/@AmazingHistoricalPhotos/community
@@AmazingHistoricalPhotosso I guess the book I have about the ship that was published in 1929 and reports that "an official communication dated from Whitehall August 18, 1786, informed the Lord Commissioners of the treasury that the goals were crowded and that it would be necessary to ship the prisoners off somewhere" is inaccurate and the photos of a "the back of the prisoner being washed with cold salt water after a flogging"; the one of a prisoner being branded with a broad arrow in the hand; and the one of a prisoner being flogged with witnesses, one of whom has on a prisoners jacket and a ball & chain attached to him must have been faked too. Sad to think of such big lies.
I was not aware of the book but a 10 second search shows that yes the book also was part of the marketing ploy of the lie … here’s just one of the countless references to the true story about the fraud of the story and the book www.phototimetunnel.com/success-the-convict-ship-that-wasnt
Yes … This one looks like a new development to me .. But in a lot of cities with mainly rentals, this was a huge problem … New York City was known for it also back in the day … Everybody’s lease effectively ended on the same day !
There were giants back then still lare but not aloud to photograph and reveal!! The veil is being lifted so your going to see incredible photage of things that you thought were only fantasy!! Yes there are some fakes but what will be shown in the next year will not be fakes !! You better get yourself prepared for the lifting of our hidden past!! It will certainly knock your socks off literally!! God bless!!
The little boy everyone wants to hug made me stop and check out your channel. So many evocative photographs... Thanks for including the little girl snarfing down her chocolate egg -- I was on the brink of 🤧 Subscribed 👍🏼
Very nice. 😊👌 I loved the last picture of Stan Laurel and Olivier Hardy.🥰 From other comments i gather that Laurel was very talented and the force behind this duo....i never knew that! 😮
Stan Laurel wrote almost everything .. other than a spell when the studio controlled him and switched to other writers out of spite .. it did not go well. He also wrote for other comedians. Along with music I also have a comedy background and have been around very well known comedy writers especially when living in NYC for a few years … none of them … NOT ONE .. can hold a candle to Stan Laurel … IMO The greatest physical comedy writer of all time (Chaplin & Keaton are up there too) 🤗
He and his wife were fanatical believers in seances. ACD was best friends with Harry Houdini until HH made it his life’s work to prove the “mediums” as fakers and show how they did it … which he did 100% of the time !
The most heartbreaking pictures I’ve ever seen are some of the first pictures. How they mutilated the children of Africa to force the parents to work. Absolutely disgusting!
Moving Day was staged, guy in the tank "photo shop", lots of weird stuff like that, but for most, I still have questions. I'm grateful that you are sharing them. Ty
Great videos. The pics are so powerful and thought provoking. The music is just right and the pics are held for a perfect amt of time. I thank you for that. Can you tell is the community tab so I can read about the titanic survivor? Thank you so much for your work.
They are not fake … but some are staged .. I.e. the famous one with the workers having lunch on the NY high rise beam was a publicity photo … I have posted a photo of the famous photographer while he was taking it.
Another great selection. The ones that stood out for me 1) the poor state of the conjoined twins. They looked malnourished. The surgery looked barbaric. What antiseptic & anesthesia were used? 2) Marilyn Monroe was married at 16? It was interesting seeing her as a brunette too 3) i forgot. Lol. But the skyscraper ones still make my knees tremble
They were unfortunately both suffering from Tuberculosis… which is why the procedure was performed, as one sister was far sicker than the other. Anesthesia in the early 1900’s was very primitive. Here’s a bit more of the story: The twins had been traveling for almost a decade when Dudhika was found to have tuberculosis in 1902. A prominent French doctor, Eugène-Louis Doyen, offered to perform a surgical separation in hopes of saving Radhika's health. The surgery was filmed (as other procedures by Doyen had been). There was concern afterward that the surgeon had been distracted or hasty, because of the cameras and his ambition for good publicity. "The practice of medical heroics on Radica and Doodica's bodies," comments a recent historian, "can be understood as the spectacularization of medical superiority." Dudhika Nayak died soon after the surgery, aged about 14 years, from peritonitis. Radhika Nayak recovered well, and was not told of her sister's death; Radhika was baptized as Marie Marguerite, and learned needlework, during her stay in a Paris sanatorium. She died in 1903, aged about 15 years, from tuberculosis. After their separation, the film of the procedure made its way into theatres, first for medical professionals, but eventually to a wider audience. There was "a storm of disgust" when the film was exhibited in Vienna in 1903. Doyen himself tried to stop the exhibition of the films in sideshows in 1904.
@AmazingHistoricalPhotos thanks for the update. At least the one sister got to live a little bit longer. If she still died of TB, hopefully she had some quality of life. That's a lot to go through at such a young age. She had to have been missing her twin terribly & who knows about family. In the early 1900s, TB was rampant here in the US. My grandfather & uncle had it & survived, but his young wife didn't. At that time, people were sent away to sanatorium to recover because it was so highly contagious. Thankfully we have vaccines for it now
