Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 290, click here.
1. Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe watches a successful launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger after being selected to join a later mission in January 1986, which would ultimately end in disaster, 30 October 1985.
2. Logging family with a 1300-year-old tree, 1892.
3. In Chicago, owners lined up with their dogs in order to receive vaccines that had been ordered by the state in response to a rabies outbreak, 1954.
Some 45,000 received shots.
4. Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father, with fellow soldiers, 1915-1916.
5. A pic of Turkish military exercise in Istanbul against to danger of chemical attack, 1939.
6. A Hookah Cafe in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, 1885.
7. Using a vacuum cleaner, 1906.
8. A man poses with a pile of lumber, Ontario, Canada, 1872.
9. A debris of dishes found on the wreck of the Titanic, 1985.
10. Soldiers in the Jewish Brigade, British Army, Italy, 1945.
