We at HistoryColored have decided to curate 50 interesting, rare and iconic photos from history. There are many reasons why a photograph may be featured on this list. Some of the reasons include: it was the first time something was ever captured on camera, it shows a famous figure from history, the image depicts an important historical event, it is a “rare” photo that does not get shared as much as it should, or it is an “iconic” historical photo. It may not fall under any of these categories but can still be featured in this list for a different reason.
These photographs are in no particular order. They have been curated and added to the list over a long period of time, so no decision was taken on how they should be ordered. Be sure to take the time to check out every historical photograph featured on this list!
As well as this list, be sure to check out the other photos featured on HistoryColored!
1. The First Photograph Ever Taken, 1826 or 1827
![The first photograph in history, the view from a window at Le Gras in 1826 or 1827.](https://i0.wp.com/historycolored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_Joseph_Nicephore_Niepce.jpg?resize=800%2C556&ssl=1)
2. General William Tecumseh Sherman, circa 1865
![Side profile photograph of General William Tecumseh Sherman in his Union Army military uniform in c. 1865](https://i0.wp.com/historycolored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/William_Tecumseh_Sherman.jpg?resize=800%2C1024&ssl=1)
3. Dali Atomicus, 1948
![Salvador Dali suspended in mid air along with other objects within the iconic photograph Dali Atomicus taken in 1948](https://i0.wp.com/historycolored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DaliIconic.jpg?resize=800%2C642&ssl=1)
4. The Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927
![Key attendees of the 1927 Solvay conference photographed sitting down and in suits. The names are Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin,
Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr,
Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson](https://i0.wp.com/historycolored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SolvayConference1927.jpg?resize=800%2C551&ssl=1)
5. King George V & Tsar Nicholas II Together, 1913
![Nicholas II of Russia photographed alongside similar looking and cousin King George V of the United Kingdom, while wearing military uniform.](https://i0.wp.com/historycolored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/TsarNicholasandKingGeorge-e1597176925482.jpg?resize=640%2C808&ssl=1)
6. The Manhattan Bridge Under Construction, 1909
![Photographs of the Manhattan Bridge under construction. You can see the layout of the bridge but there is still a lot to build. March 23 1909.](https://i0.wp.com/historycolored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ManhattanBridgeConstruction1909.jpg?resize=800%2C482&ssl=1)
7. Soviet Prisoner of War, 1940
![An injured Prisoner of War from the Soviet Union with a bandage around his bloody head, with clothing wrapped around his body. He looks cold as he is near the Arctic Circle where temperatures can get to -43 degrees Celsius](https://i0.wp.com/historycolored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SovietPOW.jpg?resize=800%2C522&ssl=1)
8. Dr. Wernher von Braun with 5 F-1 Engines
![Aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun standing next to five F-1 rocket engines in 1969.](https://i0.wp.com/historycolored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/VonBraunF1Engines.jpg?resize=800%2C994&ssl=1)
Donald Sutherland dead at 88: iconic actor starred in “MASH,” “Ordinary People,” “Hunger Games”
Sutherland was born July 17, 1935 in New Brunswick, Canada, later moving to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Throughout his childhood he battled a number of serious illnesses including polio, rheumatic fever and spinal meningitis.
He left Canada to pursue an interest in acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and soon found work in TV and low-budget films.
He got a Hollywood breakthrough in the classic war film The Dirty Dozen, whose ensemble cast includes Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Brown. It was the fifth highest grossing film of 1967.
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After leaving London for Hollywood, Sutherland landed one of his most iconic roles in the 1970 anti-war comedy-drama MASH, originating the role of “Hawkeye” Pierce. MASH was one of the most successful films of the decade and is regarded as a classic.
Throughout the ’70s, Sutherland was a Hollywood leading man: his films include in the Oscar-winning Klute opposite Jane Fonda, the psychological horror Don’t Look Now, and the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also appeared in the hit comedy Animal House.
In 1980, he starred in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Other major films include Backdraft, JFK, Six Degrees of Separation, The Italian Job and Pride and Prejudice.
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Sutherland also had success on TV, winning an Emmy Award for the 1995 film Citizen X, and a Golden Globe for the television film Path to War.
A younger generation of moviegoers was introduced to Sutherland through The Hunger Games, the hit dystopian blockbuster series: Sutherland starred as the villainous President Coriolanus Snow.
Though he surprisingly never received an Oscar nomination, he received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017, “for a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness.” He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011, and on the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2000.
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Sutherland was married three times; he was married to actress Francine Racette for 52 years until his death. He was previously married to Lois May Hardwick and Shirley Douglas, and also had an affair with his Klute co-star Jane Fonda.
He had five children — including most famously his son Kiefer Sutherland, the actor best known for playing Jack Bauer in 24.
”I was too young to go watch my father’s films in the cinema,” Kiefer Sutherland told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017. “By the time I hit 20, VHS was available and a friend of my fathers had a lot of his films. In three days I watched Don’t Look Know, Klute, M*A*S*H, Kelly’s Heroes, 1900 and Fellini’s Casanova.”
“It was such a wide spectrum of characters, and I remember calling him up and I felt really badly that I grew up not knowing what a profoundly special actor he was, I felt horribly guilty of that. As a young actor, I had never known or seen another actor who’ve done characters so diverse either.”
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Rest in peace to the iconic actor Donald Sutherland who lent his talents to so many great, classic movies — you will be missed 💔😢
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