Cool Photos: A Century of Photography

August 12, 2011A Century of Photography

1909

1919 | 1936

1944

1958 | 1962

1972

1984 | 2009

1998We at Flickr love the many treasures that are uploaded by each and every one of you every day. Only last week we had the honor to announce the

sixth billionth upload

, and among that incredible amount of stunning photography, there is a significant number of photos taken in decades long passed.Those gems, like the above photos of Tower Bridge in London from the last 110 years, can be revealed using theSearch by date feature of our

advanced search

.While

The Commons

already allow us to see beautiful and fascinating works from the world’s public photography archives, there are many members uploading their personal analog photos from all over the 20th century: There are photos from the events around the

first man on the moon

; the

first decade of divided Germany

; the last quarter century of

Hong Kong

as a British colony,

Moscow

and

Washington

from between 1980 and 1991 showing the two capitals during the last decade of the cold war; photos of the

Woodstock festival in August 1969

, the

San Francisco Earthquake of October 1989

, and many many more…If you uploaded some of your photos from past times, when digital cameras and EXIF data were still Science Fiction, you can change their taken date by following the instructions in

this FAQ

. (Might as well come in handy when you forgot to set the date on your camera and it defaults your 2010 vacation back to 1/1/1989).Photos from

Monkey Tennis

National Maritime Museum

Paulfr

matt

huebner family photos

, and