It’s every photographer’s dream to take a picture so powerful that it ends up being enjoyed by future generations. The deeper you delve into the past, the more you realize how many wonderful photos have been taken, but perhaps haven’t been given the time in the spotlight that they deserve. They’re full of character, and just as good—if not better than—some of the most iconic pics we know from textbooks and the internet.

The ‘Photos From History’ Instagram page does exactly what it says on the tin and features aesthetic pics from the past. We’ve collected some of the top ones to share with you, Pandas, and some of them are bound to change the way you view history. Don’t forget to upvote the ones that impressed you the most!

Bored Panda reached out to professional photographer Dominic Sberna, from Ohio, for a chat about high-quality photos, how photography has become more accessible over time, and how AI might affect the art form in the future. Read on for our full interview with him.

‘Photos From History’: 96 Must-See Historical Pictures, Ranging From Wholesome To Heartbreaking

#1 Helen Mirren, 1967

#2 August 23, 1989: 2 Million People Form A Human Chain Through Latvia, Estonia, And Lithuania, Uniting All 3 Countries To Show The World Their Desire To Escape The Soviet Union

#3 David Bowie Performs To A Huge Crowd At Milton Keynes Bowl In 1983

#4 Barbra Streisand By Cecil Beaton, 1969

#5 Leonardo Dicaprio, Johnny Depp & Brad Pitt In The Flush Of Youth

#6 Björk By Laura Levine In 1991

#7 The Couple On The Woodstock Album Cover Is Still Together 50 Years Later In 2019

#8 Audrey Tautou On The Set Of Amélie In 2001

#9 (1980) Punk Legend Viv Albertine Of The Slits Performs At Alexandra Palace In London

#10 The Rolling Stones’ First Photo Shoot 4 May, 1963

#11 (Studio 54) Ballet Icon, Rudolf Nureyev, Initiates Nine-Year-Old Actor Ricky Schroder Into The Delights Of Disco Dancing At Studio 54 In New York On Sunday, April 2, 1979

#12 Andy Fletcher From Depeche Mode At The Hill 16 Pub, Dublin, 1983

#13 Ukrainian Refugees In Germany In 1945

#14 Esso Hibernia Tanker Under Construction, Wallsend, England, 1970

#15 Ava Gardner, Age 19. Photo From Her Mgm Employment Questionnaire In 1942

#16 (1940) Father Christmas Handing Out Presents To Evacuees From Peckham, London

#17 Dutch Girls Ria Vermeulen And Ineke Van Wijck Write Messages On A Polish Armoured Division Tank After The Liberation Of Breda, Their Hometown, Noord-Brabant Province, The Netherlands, 1944

#18 Casting Polaroid Of Salma Hayek In 1995

#19 David Bowie And Wife Iman

#20 Sigourney Weaver And Rick Moranis On Set Of The First Ghostbusters In 1984

#21 Iggy Pop Raised By The Crowd In A Messianic Pose Live In Cincinnati In 1970

#22 A Shirtless Benito Mussolini Harvesting Wheat In Aprilla In 1938

#23 Young Couple Kissing Before The Fall Of The Berlin Wall In 1989

#24 A Bank Robber Shooting His Pistol At The Surveillance Camera, Cleveland, Ohio, 1977

#25 Light From Billions Of Years Ago Detected By The James Webb Telescope

#26 Croatians Ira And Marijan Kiss Near The End Of The Croatian War Of Independence In 1995

#27 A Box Lot Of Debbie Harry

#28 Jacques Cousteau And His Crew Relax In A Submersible After Work During The Conshelf Two Expedition, 1963

#29 Family Friend Went Camping 30 Years Ago And Heard A Noise. She Stuck Her Camera Outside Her Tent And Snapped This Picture

#30 Russian Soldiers Sunbathe On A Rooftop While A Sniper Stands Guard In Grozny, Chechnya, 9 May, 2000

#32 A Vehicle Hovering Over A Crevasse During The Trans-Aantarctic Expedition Of 1954

#33 American Soldiers Talk To A Pontifical Swiss Guard From The Vatican, June 1944

#34 East German Soldier Helps A Little Boy Sneak Across The Berlin Wall The Day It Was Erected In 1961

#35 Rory Gallagher, Age 11

#36 Richard Jack At Work On His Iconic Painting, The Second Battle Of Ypres, 1917

#37 Heath Ledger And Rose Byrne In Las Vegas, 1999

#38 Al Capone With His Son “Sonny” Capone In 1925

#39 “When I’m In Nature, Everything Falls Into Place. I’m Just One Tiny Piece Of A Big Jigsaw Puzzle And I Like That.” – Björk, 2008

#40 Mounted Police Officer Flies Down Tremont Street, Boston In The 1920s. Photo By Leslie Jones

#41 King Arthur’s Statue Overlooking The Atlantic Ocean On The Cliffs Of Tintagel In Cornwall, England

#42 Pink Floyd Concert In Venice In 1989

#43 As The Tour De France Enters The Alps, Another Look Back At The History Of The Greatest Race Of Them All

#44 Archeologists Unearth 2,200 Year Old Mosaics In An Ancient Greek City Named Zeugma In Gaziantep Province, Turkey

#45 Elijah Wood With His Scale Double Kirann Shah On The Set Of Fellowship Of The Ring In 2001

#46 (1914) Germans In Front Of The Reichstag The Day After The Declaration Of War On Russia

#47 ‘youth And Maturity’, Photo By Henri Cartier-Bresson In Paris

#48 Michael Rockefelle, Son Of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, In Dutch New Guinea, May, 1960. He Went To Explore The Jungle And Went Missing In 1961. His Body Was Never Found

#49 Arnold Schwarzenegger In College, 1979

#50 Nurses In Their Bomb Trenches Between Hospital Wards In France, 1918

#51 Clint Eastwood & Shirley Mcclaine On The Set Of 2 Mules For Sister Sara, In 1969

#52 Grace Jones By Jean-Paul Goude, 1981

#53 A Wheat Field In Manhattan Showing The Twin Towers

#54 The Face Of War By Salvador Dali In 1941

#55 Carolyn Jones’ Morticia Addams Wishes You A Ghoulishly Good Weekend

#56 Ornithologist Jerry Mcgahan Holding A 6-Month-Old Andean Condor In 1971

#57 The Last Public Appearance Of Laurel & Hardy In 1956

#58 Superman On The Set Of Superman

#59 An Armed Guard Provides Both Service And Security To White Golfers At A Golf Course At The Hotel Leopard In Rhodesia, 1978

#60 Joy Division Lead Singer Ian Curtis. Kevin Cummings Captured The Band’s Complete Journey, From Their Original Work Under The Name Warsaw, Through To The Heyday Of Joy Division

#61 Forging The Chain For Titanic’s Anchor In 1910

#62 Westminster Silhouetted By The Fires Of The Blitz In London, 1940

#63 Cult Hero Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards Soars Above The 1988 Winter Olympic

#64 Anthony Bourdain On Dublin – “If You’ve Got Any Kind Of A Heart, A Soul, An Appreciation For Your Fellow Man, Or Any Kind Of Appreciation For The Written Word, Or Simply A Love Of A Perfectly Poured Beverage, Then There’s No Way You Could Avoid Loving This City.”

#65 Sr 71 Blackbird Designed In The1950s, Was Able To Cruise Near The Edge Of Space And Outfly A Missile

#66 Surgeon After Open-Heart Surgery On A Chernobyl ‘Liquidator’

#67 Father, Son, And Grandfather, New Guinea, 1970

#68 Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, And Bunny Wailer Started A Ska Band In 1963 Called The Teenagers, Before Renaming Themselves The Wailing Rudeboys, Then The Wailing Wailers And Finally The Wailers. I Wonder What Became Of Them?

#69 Harvey Ball And The Smiley Face He Created In The 1960s

#70 17-Yr-Old Tom Hardy Photographed In A Friend’s Kitchen In 1994

#71 Marilyn Monroe In The Late 40’s

#72 A Reusable Shopping List From The 1920s

#73 The Clash Riding On Their Way To Shea Stadium, New York (1982)

#74 “Kombat” By Max Alpert: A Soviet Officer Leads His Men In A Counterattack Against German Lines In Ukraine, 12 July 1942. The Officer In Question, Alexey Yeryomenko, Was Killed Soon After This Picture Was Taken

#75 The Discovery Of An Ancient Maya Statue In The Jungles Of Honduras, 1885

#77 Iconic Traditional Irish Folk Band The Dubliners In 1972

#78 Children Watch In Fear As Their Neighborhood Is Bombed In Minsk, Belorussia

#79 Winona Ryder On The Set Of Beetlejuice In 1988

#80 Donald Campbell’s Final Moments At Over 300 Mph In His Bluebird In 1967

#81 Alec Guinness As King Faisal 1 & Director David Lean On The Set Of Lawrence Of Arabia