Historical/vintage photography

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The eyes that saw a nuke
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George Clooney, 7, would grow up to look exactly like his dad. [1968]
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Andre the Giant, 19, during a Paris Fashion Show. [1966]
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At age 17, Andre moved to Paris to train in wrestling. While there, he made several appearances at fashion shows.
Andy Warhol, 8. [1936]
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Audrey Hepburn, 13. [1942]
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Audrey was born in Belgium but grew up in German-occupied Holland. Following the end of the war, she moved to England and started acting.
Ben Stiller, 13, on a trip to New York with his father Jerry. [1978]
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John Lennon, 17, with his then-girlfriend and future wife Cynthia. [1957]
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Frank Sinatra, 10, looking as suave as you would expect. [1925]
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Fidel Castro, 17, playing basketball at High School. [1943]
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The Dalai Lama, age 2. [1937]
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Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, was selected as the tulku (student) of the 13th Dalai Lama at age 2, later becoming the Dalai Lama at age 15.
Cher, 13. [1959]
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Cher was arrested after 'borrowing' her mother's car.
Bryan Cranston, 14, with his dog Lady. [1970]
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Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, 12. [1954]
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After getting into boxing at an early age, Ali started training for championships at the age of 12. He would go on to win the World Heavyweight Championship 10 years later.
Bill Clinton, 12, with his saxophone. [1958]
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Clinton was in the chorus of his elementary school and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section. He briefly considered dedicating his life to music.
John Wayne, 19. [1926] (a.k.a. daaaamn son)
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After losing his football scholarship to USC because of an injury, Wayne started getting small work as extras on movies. This photo is of his very first role, a Yale football player in 'The Brown of Harvard'
Robin Williams, 18, as a senior at Redwood High School. [1969]
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Williams was voted "Least Likely To Succeed" while at the school. When the school asked him back to speak to students, he refused, saying it was some of the worst times of his life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 19, enjoys Oktoberfest in Munich, West Germany. [1967]
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Kurt Cobain, 19. [1986]
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According to Cobain, who claimed to be "gay in spirit" and "probably could be bisexual", he was arrested for spray painting "God is gay" on cars. Though police records suggest his graffiti actually said; "Ain't got no how watchamacallit"
Marilyn Monroe, 19. [1945]
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Monroe was working in a wartime factory when a photographer came to take photos of the staff. The camera and photographer loved Marilyn and he helped her get into modeling.
Stephen Hawking, 12. [1954]
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Hawking was relatively unaffected by his motor neuron disease as a child, though it got far worse into his teens.
 
Stevie Wonder, 13, messing around with Muhammad Ali, 21. [1963]
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The Notorious B.I.G., 6. [1978]
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Barack Obama, 4, riding a tricycle. [1965]
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Teddy Roosevelt, 18. [1876]
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Roosevelt was often ill as a child, suffering from extreme asthma. In his teens, Teddy tried to fight off illness with sport - including bare knuckled boxing and rowing.
Tiger Woods, 14, playing Zelda. [1989]
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Paul McCartney, 8, with his father on a day trip. [1950]
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Paul Newman, 18, having his mugshot taken while joining the navy. [1943]
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Tommy Lee Jones, 19. [1965]
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Winston Churchill, 14, in his school uniform. [1889]
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Robert De Niro, 7. [1950]
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Woman biker - 60s

A young boy watching TV for the first time - 1948

James Naismith (inventor of Basketball) and his wife

Graduation ceremony - 1895

King George VI having some fun -1938

Queen of Egypt and Iran, Fawzia Fuad- 1939

Geishas - 1920

Hockey players scrambling to find a contact lens - 1962

Opening ceremony of the Olympics - Moscow 1980

Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren on the of Rocky 4 – 1985

Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot – 1948

Kurt Cobain with a cell, sometime in the 80s

Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart on the set of Sabrina – 1954

Surfers and their surfing boards - 1922

Claude Monet in Venice - 1908

Marilyn Monroe

Lewis Carroll

Frida Kahlo

Pink Floyd in Japan – 1972

In a courtroom, a man asks forgiveness from his wife to avoid divorce - 1948
 
Demi Moore - 80s

Cod liver oil - 1960

Ernest Hemingway playing football with a can of beer - 1959

A kitten with Mark Twain
 
Restored and Coloured Images from the past
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18 year old Russian girl being liberated from Dachau, (April 1945)

Romanov sisters, Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana, (1910)

Manhattan at sunset from the George Washington Bridge, (December 1936)

“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant killed in air combat” – Western Desert, Egypt, (1941)

Mary Winsor, founder and president of the Limited Suffrage Society, holds a sign during the American suffrage movement; (ca. 191

Licking blocks of ice during the heat wave, NYC, (1912)

Three soldiers looking for the enemy from the shelter of a rubble-filled shed somewhere in France during World War I, (1917)

Two girls, Jean and Charlotte Potter, sit at the beach with their dog, (ca. 1910-1915)

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Soccer legend Pele. Sao Paulo, (195:cool:

An Ojibwe Native American spearfishing, Minnesota, (190:cool:

Jewish women and children arriving at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, Poland, (1944)

Duck Dynasty, (1926)

Film and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn, (ca. 1953)
 
Coney Island, New York, (ca. 1905)

A small child with a puppy – Point Pleasant,West Virginia, (May 1943)

Flipping Burgers, (193:cool:

College students pile into a Volkswagen Beetle, (c. 1965)

Baseball legend “Babe” Ruth, (ca. 1920), the year he joined the New York Yankees.

War Paint, (1944)

Cab stand in Madison Square Park, New York, (ca 1900)

Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, (1931)

World War II propaganda posters in Port Washington, New York, (1942)

Marilyn Monroe’s USO performance, (February 1954)

Operation Overlord, (June 1944)

Coca-Cola vending point at the Helsinki Summer Olympics – (July 18, 1952)

Miss America, 1924 – Ruth Malcomson.
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Sidewheeler Tashmoo leaving wharf in Detroit, (ca 1901)

Harlem News Boy, (1943)

British tattoo artist George Burchett, the King of Tattooists, (ca 1930)

Titanic sinks on April 15, 1912. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of the disaster. (Apri

Troops crouch inside a LCVP landing craft, just before landing on “Omaha” Beach on “D-Day”, (6 June 1944)

Clam seller on Mulberry Bend, New York, (ca 1900)

A German soldier after being captured by American troops near Nicosia, (1943)
 
Women in witch costumes, (1875)
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A Samurai, (1881)

The Flatiron Building, (1905)

Inventor and physicist Thomas Alva Edison. New Jersey, (1911)

Daredevil, (1917)

A Nihang Bodyguard, (c.1865)

Curb Market in NYC, (ca 1900)

Observer on Iwo Jima, (1945)

Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald, (April 16, 1945)
 
Some are repeats I'm sure.....
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The Hoover Dam before it was flooded
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Wilbur Wright flies around the Statue of Liberty
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The Tank Man in Tiananmen Square
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FIlming the MGM lion
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The iceberg believed to have sunk the Titanic
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech
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Jackie Kennedy watching her husband debate Richard Nixon
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Aftermath of the Victory over Japan Day celebrations in New York City
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Iranian soldiers looks at the burning Iraqi oil fields
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The Hollywood sign right after it was built
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The Beatles' shoot for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Neil Armstrong right after he walked on the moon
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JFK giving his famous "Ich bin ein berliner" speech in Berlin, Germany
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Spectators watch the signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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Young Adolf Hitler celebrating the announcement of World War One
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Crowds at the original Woodstock Music Festival
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Traffic jam in Berlin as the border between East and West Germany opens.
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A Native American observers the completed Transcontinental railroad.
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The models of the "American Gothic" painting.
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Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan.
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Maradona's hand of God goal against England in the 1986 World Cup
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Wilt Chamberlain after scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169–147 win over the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962
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Crash that killed Dale Earnhardt
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Hank Aaron being congratulated while rounding the bases when breaking the HR record
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Muhammed Ali standing over Sonny Liston
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The Catch
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Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute during their medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City
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Paul Newman boating in Venice (1963)
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Sexy necks and shoulders (1950s)
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Audrey Hepburn (1953)
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Badass chicks in Los Angeles (1933)
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A young Han Solo
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Neil deGrasse Tyson in his college wrestling days
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Clint Eastwood with Olive Sturgess and Dani Crayne (1954)
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"Texting" in class (1944)
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A young Sean Connery
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New York City greasers (1950s)
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Rockabilly teens and their car (1950s)
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Diana Rigg who now plays Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (1967)
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Sophia Loren
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Ellen O'Neal, the greatest woman freestyle skateboarder from the 1970s
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Cool kids on the streets of Jamaica
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The Beatles before they were famous
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Teens on a date in the 1950s
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Girls in crazy leggings (1969)
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Frank Sinatra stepping out of a helicopter with a drink
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Dean Martin and Angie Dickinson on the set of Rio Bravo (1959)
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A secretary peering down at her typewriter holding a cigarette
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Stylish couple in Chicago (1975)
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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at the horse races (196:cool:
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David Bowie's mugshot (1976)
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Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on a train to Bangor (1967)
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Michael Caine
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Brigitte Bardot looking over Pablo Picasso's shoulder at his studio (1956)
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A couple dancing at a nightclub (1950s)
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Jimi Hendrix watching Ravi Shankar at the Monterey Pop Festival (1967)
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A woman on a scooter (1969)
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Badass kids in Chicago (1941)
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A man testing a prototype of a football helmet in 1912
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Majdanek Concentration Camp 1944, soviet soldiers look on at a massive pile of human ashes, horrific.

1907 Annette Kellerman promotes women’s rights by wearing a a fitted one piece swim suit. She was even arrested for indecency.
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Annie Edison Taylor, The first woman to survive going over Niagra Falls in a barrel.
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Papa New Guinea during WWII, an advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug.
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1961, Disneyland Employee Cafeteria.
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1936, the last ever public execution in The United States.
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1903, The World Record for biggest black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellyn, alone. It Weighed in at 412lbs!
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These ‘Punt Guns’ were banned in 1860. They were made for duck hunting and supposedly had the potential to kill 50 birds in one
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Ambrose Burnslide, a Civil War General who, fittingly, was deemed the nickname ‘Sideburn’.
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Hindenburg Disaster, May 6th, 1937
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1970, A soldier passes out during Queen Elizabeth II’s parade as she rides past him.
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12. 1962, JFK and LBJ during The Cuban Missile Crisis. The US were hours away from World War III

A Chimp holding a newspaper with him as front page news after her survived his trip to space.
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Hydrogen Bomb testing at Bikini Atoll.

Tokyo 1960, Socialist politician Asanuma as he was assassinated by 17 year old Yamaguchi.
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1919, German Soldiers murder a communist in Munich.
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1939, A letter sent to Adolf Hitler from Ghandi.
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1930, Melted and horrendously damaged wax models from Madam Tussaud’s in London after a fire was started there.
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1963, the last remaining prisoners of Alcatraz leaving the prison.
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Just 75km away, a mother and child in Las Vegas look on at the nuclear testing.
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1941, Before the funding ran out, this was what they had done so far on the Mt. Rushmore prototype.
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In the early 1900’s this photo of a little girl at a grave site was captured. It wasn’t until years later the spooky reflection
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I'm slightly skeptical about this one.
1925, The Klu Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City.
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1954, Moody Jacobs shows giant bruise on his patient Ann Hodges, the only person in history to ever be struck by a meteorite.
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1890, The Telerfontornet connecting over 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm.
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Boys with no access to water learning how to swim.
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1909, An image of Loana The Blood-thirster, who was believed to have died from drinking her own blood.
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Ilse Koch aka ‘The Bitch of Buchenwald’ held captive. Her evil acts included making lampshades from human skin(myth sorry!)

The remains of Somebody who actually spontaneously combusted. A phenomenon that cannot be explained.
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Also skeptical about this one.
The mummified heart of Augustus Derange, believed to have been a vampire and killed over 40 people. (cont. below)
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He was killed in 1912 and his heart was staked just to be safe.
 
The severe effects of shellshock, now known as PTSD on a WWII soldier.

The traditional way to court women apparently.
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1941, Soldiers put their gas masks to good use whilst peeling onions to stop them from crying.
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1970’s, Morgan Freeman in one of his first acting roles on Television.
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US tanks facing Soviet tanks at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.

1951, A victim showing his old wounds from the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion.
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1939, A frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish fighters to intimidate Soviet troops.

1949, technically the first spray tan; an actual suntan vending machine!
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1920’s lifeguard on the coast.
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British sailor removing leg irons from a slave.
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1945, SS prison guards forced by English troops to move dead bodies onto a truck for burial from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Cam

US soldier offers his hand to Japanese Woman, who had been hiding in this cave during the battle between US and Japanese forces.

Young Arnold Schwarzenegger showing off his muscles to these old ladies.
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1945, bombs dropped on Kobe in Japan.

1923, Disney brothers with their wives and mother at the opening of their first studio.
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1945, Hiroshima before and after.

The last known picture of the titanic.

1924, The greatest find: the opening of King Tut’s Sarcophagus.
 
Three Archers, Japan (ca. 1870-1880)

Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1940.

Einstein’s desk photographed a day after his death.

The first photograph upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912.
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Studying the effects of weightlessness on a living mammal at 25,000′, 1958.

Two Soviet infantrymen frozen to death in their foxhole, Finland, 1940.

Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, 1937.

Reichserntedankfest rally (Thanksgiving Celebration of the Reich), 1934.

This is the Reichserntedankfest of 1934 in Buckeberg. That year, 700,000 people participated.

Dead soldier beneath crucifix WWI (1917).

Mark Twain inside the laboratory of Nikola Tesla (1894).

Prohibition- Alcohol barrels to be burned (1924).
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Pyramid of captured German helmets, New York (191:cool:.

Ruby Bridges, first african-american to attend a white elementary school in the South (Nov. 14th, 1960).

The SAS storming the Iranian Embassy to free hostages taken by terrorists. London. 1980

Three Archers, Japan (ca. 1870-1880).

Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (1961).

A German soldier who got his arm blown off in battle.
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Last photo taken of the Titanic (1912).

Hiroshima – Before and After (1945).

Headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist Party (1934).
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Douglas MacArthur signs formal surrender of Japan (1945).

Bombs dropped on Kobe, Japan (1945).

The moment a dragon is slain’ Puppet Show (Paris 1963).

A German soldier shares his rations with a Russian mother, 1941.

A German soldier shares his rations with a Russian mother, 1941 This is a good man who has no idea that his role will ultimately make his gesture futile and starve them to death anyway. This photo was taken in 1941 by the photographer of the 291st Division of the Wehrmacht George Gundlach. One of the many, out of the photo album “Volkhov’s battle. Documents of horror 1941-1942″.
 
Arnold Schwarzenegger impresses some old ladies in the park.
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Suntan vending machine, 1949.
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School kids try on gas masks – 1939.

Young women delivering ice -circa 1918.
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British sailor removing the leg irons off a slave.
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Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage.
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SS prison guards forced to load victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp into trucks for burial, 1945.

After the liberation of the camp the dead bodies were buried in mass graves. The SS prison guards were forced by British soldiers to load the bodies into the trucks. Note British troops in background with Sten submachine gun and Lee-Enfield rifles. Photo taken on April 17, 1945, Germany.

Hitler looking at the Gustav Railway gun (1942).
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A US soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave.

A US soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child during the battle between Japanese and US forces

A victim of the Hiroshima atomic explosion (1951).
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US Tanks facing Soviet Union Tanks at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.

Morgan Freeman sporting an afro in one of his first television roles. [1970s]
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Artifacts and remains from an ancient city within Germany known as “Hexelheim”.
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Artifacts and remains from an ancient city within Germany known as “Hexelheim”. It dates from over 7,000 years ago, and these items and bones show clear signs of flesh stripping in preparation for cannibalism.

Ilse Koch, the “bitch of Buchenwald”, in captivity. Her atrocities involved making human skin lampshades.

Image of Loana the Bloodthirster, who died in 1909. It is purported her death was from the drinking of her own blood.
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Children without access to water learn to swim in a schoolyard. [c. 1920s]
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The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm. [1890]
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Little Girl With Her Doll Sitting In The Ruins Of Her Bombed Home, London, 1940.
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Moving day for the folks in the suburbs, 1950s.

Photo captured of a girl in the early 1900s at a gravesite. It wasn’t until years later that the abnormality was discovered.
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The orginal prototype of Mt. Rushmore in 1941- this was before funding ran out.
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The orginal prototype of Mt. Rushmore in 1941- this was before funding ran out.
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A mother and her child in Las Vegas watching the nuclear testing just 75km away.
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Letter from Gandhi sent to Adolf Hitler in 1939.
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A happy chimp holding a newspaper after surviving his trip to space.
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JFK and LBJ during the Cuban Missle Crisis (1962) – The US was within hours of World War III.

The less-seen side of World War II: A German soldier buries an unknown English soldier that was killed in air combat.

Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII.
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Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961.
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The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927.
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The naked gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944.

A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945.

The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967.

The inside of the Cathedral of Amiens during World War II.
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Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901.
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Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency.
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