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RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOSYou all know by now that I am a fan of history and, if you don't know that... why haven't you been paying attention? I feel like I mean nothing to you!

Even if you are inattentive and don't really deserve my affections, you should know that the part of history that fascinates me the most are the alternative points of viewto it... those photos and descriptions that tell us what it was like to be there and, perhaps, surprise us with something we didn't know and haven't seen.

A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.

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Albert Einstein looking fabulous.


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Here's his report card!


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Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.

A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941


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Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.


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Che Guevara.

The Microsoft staff in 1978.


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The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.

A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood againsta line of tanks in Tiananmen Square.

He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man.You can see the tanks approaching from the right.


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Winston Churchill out for a swim.


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The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.


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Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.

Google begins.


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Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.


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A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.

The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.


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A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.


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The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!


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Hitler in Paris.


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Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.


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British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.

Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.


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The first McDonalds.


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Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.


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California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.


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Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,an event that helped spark World War I.


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The 1912 World Series.


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Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975.


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Elvis in the Army.

The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.


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Child laborers in 1880.

New York's Times Square in 1911.


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Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil.

Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.


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Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.

The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.


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The construction of Disneyland.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.


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Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.

Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.


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Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death.

Charles Godefroy flies his biplane through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on August 7th, 1919.


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A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.

Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908.


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Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888.

Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.


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Titanic leaves port in 1912.

An actual Titanic boarding pass.


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This is believed to be the last picture taken of Titanic before her sinking.


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Adolf Hitler's pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf's Lair in 1944.


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The ENIAC, the first computer ever built.


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John F. Kennedy has a tea party with his daughter, Caroline.


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Brighton Swimming Club in 1863. I'm assuming the top hats are not part of their everyday swimwear.

Ferdinand Porsche (yes, THAT Porsche) showcasing the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935.


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The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb.

The headquarters of Benito Musolini and the Italian Fascist party taken in Rome in 1930.


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Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke’s family photo left behind on the moon in 1972.


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The crew of Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing in 1966.Sadly, all three astronauts were killed on the launch pad in a fire.

The first Wal-Mart.


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Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin after walking on the moon's surface.


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Mount Rushmore as it appeared in its more natural state.


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Stalin goofing around.


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Henry Ford (the founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, motion picturecamera and the practical light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA) and Harvey Samuel

Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) lounging together.

Eleven year-old Adolf Hitler.


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A view of Boston in 1860 taken from a hot air balloon.

Pope Pio XII meets with Hitler.


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Hitler's bunker.

The cast and creator of Star Trek stand in front of the first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, in 1979.


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Bread and soup during the Great Depression.

The only photograph of a living Quagga from 1870. This species is now extinct.


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German air raid on Moscow in 1941.

A crash on board an aircraft carrier sometime during World War II.


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Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

The first photo taken in space from 1946.


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An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967The airman is John McCain.

George S. Patton's dog mourning his lost master on this day of his death.


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General Custer and his men during the American Civil War.


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Manfred von Richthofen, aka “The Red Baron”, petting his dog on an airfield.

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Marilyn Ramos Cruz • a day ago

Some Amazing Photos

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UberOnTime • 10 days ago

Be wise and stay wise- Divine Tumenta

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smeves41 • 10 days ago

is the civil war photo real? because it looks like it's in high definition

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John McLean • 10 days ago> smeves41

It has been retouched and colorised, but it is real and you can Google the original

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Donna Cerca Uomo Milano • 13 days ago

nice picture of Stalin

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Krisco2009 • 17 days ago

I live in Bentonville, Arkansas. That is not the first Walmart. It's the Walmart Visitor's Center; it was Bud Walton's first

store (not Sam - the founder of Walmart). The first Walmart is in our neighboring town, Rogers. :)

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nicholasginex • a month ago

Great photos of the past. Please read the article titled, Islam Objective is to Dominate the World via the link:

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Yota71 • a month ago

Amazing photos they are windows to our history...thank you for sharing

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