25 Interesting Historical Photos – Part 108

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 107, click here.

1. Instant of Test Nuclear Detonation.

It is captured by Harold Edgerton’s Rapatronic Camera with a shutter speed of one hundred millionths of a second, Circa 1950s. 

2. The Jersey Shore, “On the beach, Asbury Park,” circa 1905.

3. The Beatles Arriving in New York, 1964.

4. A pair of Cambridge undergraduates, 1926.

5. Pablo Picasso drafts a centaur in mid-air with a “light pen” in southeastern France, January 30, 1950.

6. Future four-star general and Secretary of State Colin Powell’s teenage selfie, C. 1950s.

7. Seconds after the murder of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse, 1948.

8. Vasa, a 17th Century warship, breaks the surface on April 24, 1961, after being under water for 333 years.

9. Martin Luther King Jr. and entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.

They share a laugh in Davis’ dressing room at New York’s Majestic Theater, 1965.

10. Moments before Marcus Sarjeant fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II, 1981.