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43 Cool Pics From History's Vault.

History is mesmerizing.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 5 years ago in Wow

History is mesmerizing.

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Soviet Soldier in a parade in Moscow, 1940

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The center of the Soviet city of Stalingrad (now named Volgograd), after 5 months of savage fighting between Soviet and Axis forces 1943

3
Clarice Lispector, a typewriter and a smoke

4
Dorothy Count – The first black girl to attend an All white School in the United States. She’s being mocked and taunted by her white male peers at the Charlotte’s Harry Harding’s School in 1957

5
The 1936 Summer Olympics

6
Watching television at Waterloo station, London 1936: When TV first started broadcasting in Britain the expensive sets were out of the price range for most people. Everyday folk however- provided they had a train ticket- could watch TV in the waiting room at London’s Waterloo station.

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Vladimir Lenin’s last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923

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Japanese Samurai, 1866. Photograph by Felice Beato

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Train passengers wearing masks to protect themselves from the Spanish Flu, 1918, 1920.

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Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train, 1945

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Quarantine regulations for Yuma County, Arizona 102 years ago

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French troops of the 2nd armored divsion, on their way to liberate occupied Strasbourg, 1944

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Record listening booths, HMV store London 1954

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The fingerprint files of FBI, 1944

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Members of the Fat Men’s Club of New York gather at a meeting, circa 1930.

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Marie Curie, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, first in Physics then Chemistry 1910s

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Young women in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1970s.

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Eva Anna Paula Hitler (6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife.

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Rod Serling, creator and host of “The Twilight Zone”, 1964

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Yip Man, the master of Wing Chun, sparring with his student Bruce Lee, 1955

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Ty Cobb Sliding Into Home 1912

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Steve McQueen kicking back after participated in a 500-mile, two-day dirt bike race across the Mojave Desert, 1963

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Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants From 1972

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School dance. 1950

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Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, and Jane Holzer, 1965

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New York Yankee’s center fielder Mickey Mantle flings his batting helmet away in disgust after another terrible at-bat. June 25, 1965

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André the Giant has successfully held the record for the most Beer consumed in a single sitting for the last 40 years. During a six-hour period back in 1976, André drank 119 standard 12 ounce brews in a pub in Pennsylvania.

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Receptionist waits at her desk. General Motors Technical Center, 1965

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Tourists in the 1920s before Cairo expanded look across the Sahara Desert from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops at sunset.

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A young Dolly Parton with her husband Carl Dean. They’ve been married since 1966

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Louis Armstrong plays for his wife Lucille in Egypt, 1961

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Shoe shine boys listen to Civil War veteran tell his war stories, 1920s

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1st, 2nd and 3rd Place in the Miss Correct Posture Contest pose with trophies and their X-rays – 1956

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Elton John travelling on his a private jet, complete with a piano bar, 1974

35
Earliest known photo of Elvis Presley, with parents Gladys & Vernon in 1938

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At 4:31 AM, an unauthorized photo taken of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that Germany had began their invasion of the Soviet Union. It was taken by Komsomolskaya Pravda, editor in chief. He was ordered to destroy it, but instead saved it. June 22, 1941

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A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, 1914/1915

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Members of Dutch Resistance celebrate the news of Adolf Hitler’s death, April 1945

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101st Airborne before dropping into Normandy June 6 1944

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105mm shells from an allied bombardment all fired in a single day on German lines, 1916.

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A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand. Iwo Jima, 1945

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A federal agent inspects a ‘lumber’ truck after smelling alcohol during the prohibition period, Los Angeles, 1926

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If anyone wants to know when they would have been picked in 1970 here’s a graph for that draft order

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