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15 Photographs That Prove You Know Nothing About The Past
These Photos Expose A History You Were Never Taught.
7 min readMay 7, 2025
History often circles back to the same photographs, leaving many powerful images outside the frame.
These underrated iconic photos offer something different — glimpses of stories that slipped past the spotlight.
Together, they challenge what we think we know and ask us to look again, just a little closer this time.
14. Paperboy Carrying A Devastating News
Outside the Oceanic House offices of the White Star Line, a paperboy stands holding the devastating news of the Titanic’s fate in 1912.
The boy in the photo was just doing his job that day, selling headlines that stopped people in their tracks.
Less than six years later, he would lose his life in World War I at the age of twenty-two, his story closing far sooner than anyone on that street could have guessed.
