20 Rare Historic Photos You Probably Haven’t Yet Seen

gable1939 Published 08/12/2016

We’ve all seen the famous pictures of Neil Armstrong bouncing on the Moon or a peaceful protester blocking tanks in Tiananmen square. These and many more powerful photos captured not only the image but the whole story perfectly. And apparently, there are more of those incredible shots which, for some reason, weren’t that widespread...

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Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
2.
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
3.
Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
4.
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
5.
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
6.
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
7.
Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
8.
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
9.
Job Hunting In 1930’s
10.
First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967
11.
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
12.
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
13.
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
14.
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
15.
Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
16.
The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884
17.
Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
18.
The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
19.
7-Foot Bolaji Badejo, A Nigerian Design Student, And One-time Actor, Wearing His Costume From The Now Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Alien, 1978
20.
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967

1.
Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
2.
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
3.
Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
4.
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
5.
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
6.
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
7.
Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
8.
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
9.
Job Hunting In 1930’s
10.
First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967
11.
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
12.
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
13.
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
14.
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
15.
Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
16.
The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884
17.
Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
18.
The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
19.
7-Foot Bolaji Badejo, A Nigerian Design Student, And One-time Actor, Wearing His Costume From The Now Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Alien, 1978
20.
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967