Rare Photographs Capturing Our History
Featured 07/25/2013
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Amazing pictures bringing back moments of history. Some of them good times and good memories, others not so much...
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1. The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior" explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944.
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2. The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in 1942.
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3. Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie "Schindler's List", on the balcony of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp.
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4. Hitler breaks ground on his ambitious plans to link all major German cities with highways.
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5. Amelia Earhart receives what proved to be her last haircut in 1937.
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6. The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime camouflage in 1915.
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7. The mugshot of Tokyo Rose, 1946.
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8. George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966.
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9. Harry Houdini exposes "spirit trickery" in 1925.
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10. Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941. This is where the Pentagon stands today.
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11. 1945, German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch footage shot at a German concentration camp.
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12. The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935.
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13. Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the 1970's.
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14. The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
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15. June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish snipersharpshooter, dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs.
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16. Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972.
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17. Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864.
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18. OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984. Nichole Brown can be seen on the left.
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19. Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934.
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20. Dr. Werhner von Braun,"Father of Rocket Science" and Walt Disney in 1954.
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21. Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair.
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22. A permanent stable cavity caused by the detonation on an underground nuclear test in 1961.
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23. Vladimir Putin and his childhood friends in 1969. None of them have been seen since!
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24. Future presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush with Governor George Wallace at a BBQ in 1983.
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25. Children for sale in Chicago, 1948. Some parents sold their children due to poverty.
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26. Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912.
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27. Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II two years before their assassination in 1916.
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28. Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland's opening day in 1955.
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29. Mark Twain in 1883.
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30. The earliest known aerial photograph, taken from a balloon over Paris in 1858.
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31. Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.
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32. Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912
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33. A lion rides in the sidecar during a performance of The Wall of Death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929.
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34. Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890.
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35. Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1966.
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36. A burial at sea on board the USS Lexington in 1944.
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37. Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939.
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38. Children rush into a candy store following the end of "sweets rationing" in 1953.
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39. The rather luxurious seating area of the submarine, The Protector, in 1902.
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40. What is thought to be the oldest known war photograph: New Hampshire volunteers depart for the Mexican War in 1846.
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41. Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994.
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42. Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's.
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43. Albert Einstein brings sexy back in 1932.
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44. Prosthetic legs in 1900.
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45. Six year-old Arthur Conan-Doyle in 1865.
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46. The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar. Circa 1930.
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47. Coney Island in 1905
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48. Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961.
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49. The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas.
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50. An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
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51. A rescue boat comes alongside the crippled USS West Virginia shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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52. Betty White at home with her dog in 1952
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53. Wielu324 just after German Luftwaffe bombing the 1st of September 1939. Not only did this bombing provide a spark for World War II, but it is generally believed to be the first terrorist bombing in history.
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