How well do you know your history? In these 20 photos, historical events and everyday life exist side by side, providing a window into history that will allow you to imagine what it was like to actually be there.

Imgur user coveredinksauce recently posted a series of photos that show some less famous (but no less fascinating) views of things that would eventually become iconic. From the Great Depression to atomic mushroom clouds, take a peek at the more human side of history.

1. Unpacking the Statue of Liberty’s head

2. A mother and son watching a mushroom cloud after atomic testing in Las Vegas, 1953

3. A New York fire station in 1912

4. Children eating cabbage and turnips for Christmas dinner during the Great Depression

5. The original Ronald McDonald in 1963

6. The Ford Theatre, site of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination

7. Santa Claus in New York, circa 1900

8. Apollo I crew members rehearse their water landing in 1966

9. A mother hides her face after putting her children up for sale in 1948 Chicago

10. The Berlin Wall is built, 1961

11. Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition in Detroit (1929)

12. Swimmer Annette Kellerman promoting women’s’ right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit in 1907. She was later arrested for indecency

13. Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving the island, 1963

14. Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, 1908

15. President Richard Nixon “trying to use chopsticks” while visiting China in 1972

16. Melted mannequins after a fire a Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930

17. Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911

18. Sweden switches from driving on the left side to driving on the right, September 1967

19. Abraham Lincoln’s hearse, 1865

20. Operation Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported by airplane to America, 1975