These Rare Historical Photos Show The Past As You've Never Seen Before
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Amazing photos from the past
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1. A scene from the 1980 Atari's National Space Invaders Championship.
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2. This science fair project, entitled "The Effects of LSD on Fish," was submitted by a 10th grade California student in 1972.
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3. A colorized portrait of Brigitte Bardot in 1950.
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4. The crowded -- and extraordinarily well-dressed streets of London in the 1900s.
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5. The first cable car crossing over Niagara Falls in 1916.
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6. Chevy Chase High School's Home Economics class, photographed sometime in 1935.
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7. Gilbert Kerr, a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, serenading an Emperor penguin in 1904.
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8. Volunteer fire fighters in 1870s Istanbul.
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9. Fidel Castro holds up a newspaper with a story about a plot to kill him, which happened in 1959.
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10. A vintage Coca-Cola magazine advertisement from 1960.
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11. Opening day at Disneyland, 1955.
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12. Damage from a wind storm in Times Square, 1912.
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13. A 1936 BMW Schneekrad snow machine parked on the street.
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14. Rosie Ruiz, the first woman to cross the Boston Marathon finish line. Unfortunately, she cheated: Ruiz took the train for part of the race.
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15. A cool old Toyota Corolla advertisement.
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16. A Japanese woman carries her son on her back as she marks her ballot. This was in the first free election in 1946 Tokyo.
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17. Jimi Hendrix in his kitchen at 34 Montagu Square, London, 1967.
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18. An American B17 drops food over Schiphol Airport during operation Chow Hound in 1945
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19. The Chalk Games in New York City, taken in 1950.
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20. During World War II, British troops are pictured handling mines and booby trap devices using a blind screen.
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21. The front of Chicago's Navy Pier, back in 1965 when it was the University of Illinois.
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22. Apollo 11 mission officials celebrate the spacecraft's successful launch on July 16, 1969.
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23. The Tower of the Sun, created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto, shown here in 1970.
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24. The first known photograph of someone giving the finger -- can you spot him?
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25. The exact moment five year old Harold Whittles hears for the very first time after doctors place an aid in his left ear.
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26. Princess Lee Radziwill and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, photographed in Italy in1962.
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27. Two waiters serve steel workers lunch on a girder above the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1930s NYC.
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28. Women in France cultivating fields during World War I.
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29. The title of this photo is "Wishram woman in festive bridal raiment", by Edward S. Curtis.
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30. A Turkish building his new home from the ruins of Aleshir Turkey in 1923.
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