Rare Photographs Capturing Our History
Officer Farva
Published
07/25/2013
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People & Lifestyle
Amazing pictures bringing back moments of history. Some of them good times and good memories, others not so much...
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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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The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in 1942. -
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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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Hitler breaks ground on his ambitious plans to link all major German cities with highways. -
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Amelia Earhart receives what proved to be her last haircut in 1937. -
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The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime camouflage in 1915. -
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The mugshot of Tokyo Rose, 1946. -
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George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966. -
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Harry Houdini exposes "spirit trickery" in 1925. -
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Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941. This is where the Pentagon stands today. -
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1945, German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch footage shot at a German concentration camp. -
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The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935. -
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Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the 1970's. -
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The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963. -
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June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish snipersharpshooter, dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs. -
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Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972. -
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Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864. -
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OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984. Nichole Brown can be seen on the left. -
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Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934. -
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Dr. Werhner von Braun,"Father of Rocket Science" and Walt Disney in 1954. -
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Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair. -
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A permanent stable cavity caused by the detonation on an underground nuclear test in 1961. -
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Vladimir Putin and his childhood friends in 1969. None of them have been seen since! -
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Future presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush with Governor George Wallace at a BBQ in 1983. -
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Children for sale in Chicago, 1948. Some parents sold their children due to poverty. -
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Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912. -
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Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II two years before their assassination in 1916. -
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Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland's opening day in 1955. -
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Mark Twain in 1883. -
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The earliest known aerial photograph, taken from a balloon over Paris in 1858. -
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Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944. -
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Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912 -
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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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Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890. -
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Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1966. -
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A burial at sea on board the USS Lexington in 1944. -
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Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939. -
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Children rush into a candy store following the end of "sweets rationing" in 1953. -
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The rather luxurious seating area of the submarine, The Protector, in 1902. -
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What is thought to be the oldest known war photograph: New Hampshire volunteers depart for the Mexican War in 1846. -
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Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994. -
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Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's. -
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Albert Einstein brings sexy back in 1932. -
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Prosthetic legs in 1900. -
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Six year-old Arthur Conan-Doyle in 1865. -
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The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar. Circa 1930. -
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Coney Island in 1905 -
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Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961. -
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The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas. -
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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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A rescue boat comes alongside the crippled USS West Virginia shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. -
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Betty White at home with her dog in 1952 -
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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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