Rare Photographs From History

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Welcome and take a journey through decades of rare historical photos from around the world. Please enjoy this incredibly fascinating gallery from the past.

1965, Entrance to Disneyland

Gemini 9 Recovery in 1966 after water landing.

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Human chess game in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1924.

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5MB hard drive in 1956 getting loaded inot a PanAm airplane.

Jack Nicholson during the filming of “The Shining,” 1980.

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1953, Salvador Dali riding in a goat drawn carriage.

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New York City construction working above the skyline in 1925.

1963, The Rolling Stones taking a smoke break prior to their tv debut.

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Priscilla and Elvis boarding a private jet in 1967 after being married.

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1920s, being the scenes of Elizabeth Tower AKA Big Ben.

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Johnny Depp making grilled cheese with an iron.

1961, Disneyland.

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1909, Coca Cola delivery.

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1930, parking structure in NY.

A young Frank Sinatra takes a selfie in 1938.

Addam’s Family set in full color.

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Star Wars props and George Lucas.

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Modena, Italy in 1959. Children use a pulley system on their way to school

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Abraham Lincoln’s top hat from the night he was shot.

Korea, 1952. Canadian soldier’s makeshift hockey rink.

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Colorized photo of New York in the early 1900s

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1936, New York Central’s “Mercury” locomotives in Chicago.

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1935, Golden Gate Bridge worker stands fearlessly.

1918, UB-110 German submarine control room.

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Circus Hippo pulling a man in a cart, 1924

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1967, Sweden’s first day changing driving direction from left side of the road to the right.

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Amphibious Bicycle

One wheel motorcycle

Howard Carter examining the Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus in 1922.

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Soviet’s plane listening devices

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Cincinnati “old Main ” building, 1874.

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1950 White House gutting and renovation set forth by President Truman.

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Another photo of the White House renovation during the time of 1950.

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Paparazzi from the past.

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Walt Disney with his charactors.

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1917, Walter Yeo had the first plastic surgery performed on him.

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1960s Inventor Allyn Hazard testing his moon suit in the Mojave Desert.

Flying automotive in 1940, Jess Dixon.

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Empire State Building construction workers in 1930.

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The first WalMart store opens in 1962.

Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Warren Harding and Harvey Firestone lounging together.

Hitler’s bunker in 1945 taken by Allied soldiers.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs talking in 1991.

Oldest running car on the planet built in 1884.

Douglas MacArthur signing the official Japanese surrender on USS Missouri in 1945

1945, Mona Lisa returns to its home at Louvre in Paris after WW2.

Steven Spielberg sits inside the mechanical shark on the set of Jaws.

The first atomic bomb test, on July 16th 1945 in New Mexico.

August 26, 1944. A day after the liberation of Paris, France.

From Left, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

1933, the night Prohibition was put to an end.

1958, construction of the World’s Fair in Brussels.

Marilyn Monroe, age 17

1970’s Hitchhikers

Sorority Sisters At The University Of Texas – 1945

Sigourney Weaver – 1983

Jodi Foster In Taxi Driver

An Alligator Farm – 1930

1920s, London in full color.

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Gun safety class in an Indiana school during 1956.

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1936, Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest man alongside his siblings.

Age 22, Hilary Clinton.

1949, the famous Hollywoodland sign.

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1989, Axl Rose and David Bowie sharing a moment

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Washington, DC in 1921.

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1938, Henry Ford accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials.

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Janis Joplin at Woodstock, 1969.

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JFK’s funeral at the Capitol Building in 1963.

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Titanic’s lifeboat collapsible D, one of the last lifeboats to leave the sinking ship in 1912.

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1931, the very first Rockefeller Center Tree.

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1885, a crowd gathers after Jumbo the elephant is killed by a train passing by in Ontario.

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Reactions from spectators after the space shuttle Challenger exploded during flight, 1986.