These weirdest historical photos show that humans have always been strange species!
1. Female bodybuilder Patricia O’Keefe, who weighed only 64 pounds, gives a 200 pound man a piggyback ride. [1940]
2. A man testing a prototype football helmet. [1912]
3. Winners of Miss Perfect Posture contest at chiropractors convention. [1956]
4. Soldiers use gas masks to stop them crying while peeling onions. [1941]
5. Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to have been struck by a meteorite. [1954]
6. Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank. [1950]
7. The day Sweden switched which side of the road they drive on. [1967]
8. A police officer judges an ankle competition in London. [1930]
9. New South Wales police in Australia turn their motorcycles into chariots. [1936]
10.Woodsmen in Montana put out an advertisement. [1901]
11.Macy’s department store detectives pose for a photograph with their backs turned so as not to reveal their identity. [1948]
12.Boy Scouts examine their boots after an 8,000 mile hike to attend the first Boy Scout Jamboree. They walked 25 miles a day for two years. [1937]
13.A boy stands next to his riding boar. [c. 1930s]
14.A US Marine, somewhere in the Pacific Islands, poses for the camera. [c. 1941 – 1945]
15.Teachers have a spot to drink on Spring Break. [1910]
16.A dog poses with a pipe. [1875]
17.Children without access to water learn to swim in a schoolyard. [c. 1920s]
18.The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm. [1890]
19.Sean Connery signs a coconut for a little Jamaican fan on the set of Dr. No. [1962]
20.The US Capitol Building is painted with a layer of red anti-rust paint, before being painted white again. [1959]
21.An ancient statue of Ramses the Great is dismantled and relocated during construction of the Aswan Dam. [1967]
22.An elephant is used to load supplies onto an American plane. [1945]
23.The Ku Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City. [1925]
24.President Lyndon B. Johnson driving his amphibious car. As a prank, he would drive the car straight towards the lake when anyone visited his ranch. [1965]
25.British Soldiers with captured German Goliath tank busters, which would drive under tanks and explode. [c. 1939-1945]
26.Laika, the first dog in space, has her capsule built around her. No provisions were made for her return, and she died in orbit. [1957]
27.Niagara Falls is temporarily dammed so that repairs can be carried out. [1969]
28.A dog being posed by a German soldier. [1940]
29.12,500 officers, nurses and soldiers from Camp Gordon form a human eagle. [1918]
30.They were quickly outdone by 30,000 men from Camp Custer.
31.Helen Hulick, a kindergarten teacher and witness to a burglary, was given a five-day sentence and sent to jail for contempt for wearing pants to give her courtroom testimony. [1938]
32.Four horsemen ride through the streets of Amsterdam on a ‘motor-less day’, when cars were prohibited due to the oil crisis. [1973]
33.A foot guard passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during a parade. [1970]
34.When they realized that poverty-stricken women were using sacks to make clothes for their children, some flower mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks. [1939]
35.A Ringling Brothers Circus elephant exits a train car. [1963]
36.A bulldog guards a British home barricaded during the Blitz. [c. 1939-1945]
37.The World’s Record black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellen. It weight 425 lbs. He bought it in alone. [1903]
38.A woman rides an early electric scooter. [1916]
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