21 Fascinating Pics from the Vaults of History
Nathan Johnson
Published
06/30/2018
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For those who live with one foot in the future and one foot in the past.
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Harley-Davidson assembly line. 1909 -
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Harriet Tubman in 1911 at age 89 -
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The Kennedy family children, 1928 -
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Helen Keller, the first deaf and blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, photographed sitting down in Looe, Cornwall, UK on 6th May 1932 -
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Last Person to be Publicly Executed in France 1939 -
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Salvation Army ‘Doughnut Girls’ distributing treats to GIs during WWI (this is the origin of Donut Day). c.1917 -
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The Italian motor torpedo boat MAS 15 in 1918. One hundred years ago, she sank the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan -
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Japanese Special Forces, Ready to Attack During the Battle of Shanghai, 1937 -
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Hiroshima before and after the atomic bombing on August 6th, 1945 -
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The first international animal superstar Jumbo the elephant and his keeper Matthew “Scotty” Scott 1882 -
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Getting cooled air piped into the car while enjoying a meal at a drive-in restaurant in Houston, Texas 1957 -
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Benjamin, the last known thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) in Hobart Zoo, Australia. Thylacines were able to open their jaws up to 80 degrees. 1933 -
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Luftwaffe bomber crew patched up, apparently shot down in the Leningrad region in 1941. -
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Future President Gerald Ford with teammate Willis Ward at the University of Michigan in 1934. Ford threatened to quit the team when Ward was benched for a game against Georgia Tech, who at the time refused to play against black players -
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40,000 bison hides stacked in Dodge City in 1878. -
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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 -
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Teenagers at a Rock ‘n roll dance in the 50’s -
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Women trainees of the LAPD practice firing their newly issued revolvers, 1948 -
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Cowboys drinking at a saloon in Tascosa, Texas 1907 -
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Men unloading a banana boat in New York 1900s
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