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19 Rare Historical Photos

Take a walk through history with these rare photos.

By mclewis_13

Published 11 years ago

Take a walk through history with these rare photos.

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A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler showing the blue color of his eyes.

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Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947. Her landing position appeared disarmingly placid and composed, as if asleep. Colorized Picture

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The Punt Gun could discharge over a pound of shot at a time that could kill as many as 50 birds. This depleted stocks of wild waterfowl and by the 1860s most US states had banned the practice.

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A picture of a crowd in New York, 1939 there is not one unhatted head

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Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923

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Dagen H, the day Sweden switched sides of the road, 1967

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German soldier taking aim from the back of a trained horse, 1935

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Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945

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Civil War General Amrbose Burnside, whose unusual facial hair led to the coining of the term sideburns

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Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Asanuma in Tokyo, 1960 Photo taken after initial stab

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The first bananas in Norway, 1905

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The face of a hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk before masks became standard game equipment, 1966

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Stalin in an off-record photo captured by his bodyguard Vlasik

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US intelligence images of how Hitler could have disguised himself, 1944

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Federal ironclad USS Galena showing some battle damage, 1862

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A photo of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, taken the morning of April 15, 1912 from board of the ship Prinz Adalbert, before knowing the Titanic had sunk. The smear of red paint along the base of the berg bottom right prompted the chief steward to take the picture

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Defiant until the very end, a German Communist being executed in Munich, 1919

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German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

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A young Adolf Hitler cheering the start of World War One, 1914

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Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942

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A photo illustrating the class divide of pre-war Britain, 1937

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