Rare Historical photos

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Luftwaffe Field Division Soldier with a MG 42 in Italy. 194?


Arsenal vs Manchester United. London stadium "Highbury" 1926.


Turkish-Cypriot woman gives some water to a captured Greek-Cypriot soldier in Turkish Invasion of Cyprus, 1974


A wounded British soldier Pvt. Tom McCormack who was captured by the Germans during the St. Nazaire Raid, March 28, 1942.


Lost french patrol during battle of France, May 1940


Alcatraz Island(1880)


B-52 flyover of experimental NASA plane on lakebed.[1969]


A "colored" military policeman posing on his motorcycle in Columbus, Georgia (1942).

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George S. Patton during World War One


"Pittsburgh by Night", 1907



Super Bowl VII, January 14, 1973. Dolphins defeats the Redskins 14-7 to become the first and last team to finish an NFL season undefeated.



Winner of the 'Fittest Family' eugenics award at the Kansas State Fair in Topeka, KS, 1925


Vancouver fire department showing off their aerial ladder in 1910.



Italian POWs captured by the British at work in a cobbler’s shop at the N.144 Italian workers camp near London. London, England, UK. February 1945



Brazilian Army Pvt. Francisco de Paula of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force prepares to load a 105 mm M2A1 howitzer, during the Italian Campaign, near Massarosa, Tuscany, Italy, 10/29/1944


Doctor Vilhelm Irgens Pettersson demonstrates his new invention; a baby carriage that can climb stairs. 26 november 1956

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German passenger airship LZ 129 "Hindenburg" passing over Wildwood NJ just prior to exploding. May 6, 1937.


Mrs. Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman's bayonet aside as she tries to convince the crowd to disperse in Cambridge, Maryland (July 21, 1963).


1922 - Washington, D.C. Viola LaLonde and Elizabeth Van Tuy posing on a Model T Ford.


Supermarket in Rockville, Maryland.[1964]


Burmese Kayan women in London looking at a Grenadier guard, 1935


Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her Autoped, (motor-scooter) in 1916, travelling to work at offices in London (World's first motorized scooter)


Sailors on the USS Hartford.


Italian POW after the battle of Caporetto, 1917

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Israeli officers captured by Syrian troops during the Yom Kippur War are presented to the media, October 1973.


French soldiers digging a trench during the First Battle of the Marne- WW1


Undeground German Heinkel 162 aircraft development facility WWII era


During an air raid alert, residents of Hanoi wait in chest-deep sidewalk shelters for the all-clear signal (1967).


Oct.23,1983,a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors;a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.British soldiers give a hand in rescue operations at the site of the bomb-wrecked U.S. Marine command center.


U.S. Marine's 'thousand-yard stare' after two days of fighting in the 1944 Battle of Eniwetok


Belgian light artillery towed by dog teams, Western Front 1914.


Spanish Navy prisoners of war arriving at Seavey's Island, Maine in 1898.

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1943 - Women "Burners" Working In Defense Industry, Using Acetylene Torches to Bevel Armor Plate For Tanks At Gary Steel Works, Gary, IN,


Apollo 7 astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham stand on recovery ship USS Essex after returning from an 11-day mission in space (October 22, 1968).


A French soldier feeding his kitten, Indochina, 1956


1920s Speed Limit Sign.


1995, Chechnya, a soldier tries to warm himself


A deep sea diver is captured mid-jump. The cover of Scientific American Supplement on October 23, 1915


Williamsburg Bridge Approach, New York City. Bridge opened Dec. 19, 1903


Times Square, NYC 1922

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Circus elephants Kiri and Many move a wrecked car from a bombed out garage in Hamburg. 1945.


Richard Nixon and LBJ meet at the White House before Nixon's nomination, July 1968


Shadows are cast beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, seen from a stable roof, on May 6, 1918.


Lincoln, Nebraska in Color in 1942


Fidel Castro stands with Viet Cong soldiers and holds up the flag of national liberation in a communist-controlled area of South Vietnam, 1973



The People's Republic of China detonates its first successful atomic bomb on 16 October 1964, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France in the "A-bomb club"


Lieutenant Guy Drummond of the 13th Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada in the trenches. He was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres at the age of 27, soon after this photograph was taken. 1915.

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People on a swing, Finland, 1950's


Emmett Kelly, the original "sad clown" rushes to help put out one of the worst fire disasters in US history - The Hartford circus fire.[1944]


John Kerry protesting the Vietnam war[1971]


Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek toast to victory over Japan.[1945]


Wall Street during the bank panic in 1907


Civilians rounded up at the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, after a partisan attack against a Police Company in training, 1944


The October 22, 1895 Granville-Paris Express Train crashes through the Paris Stn and flies through the air


Yosemite National Park: view of men on the "Devil's Diving Board" c 1915.

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Left-hand traffic in Stockholm in 1966


Author Ernest Hemingway on his yacht (~1950)



Gym aboard the Titanic, c. 1912



Palestinian fighters in West Beirut, July 1988



German general (maybe Rommel?) inspecting one of the four 38cm cannons in the Hanstholm fortification. Hanstholm, Denmark December 1943


Soldiers of the Hungarian Second Army having fun in 1942, only months before the Battle of Stalingrad where they suffered 84% casulties


T-26 wreck in Smolensk turned into a signpost - 1941

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A looter wheels a shopping cart full of diapers past a burning market during the Los Angeles Riots, 1992


Captain Nathan J. Johnson. Officer's mess. Company F, 93d New York Volunteers Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Bealeton, Virginia August 1863.



Cliff House - San Francisco[1896]


This photograph by Thomas Child, titled Mongolian Lama, is one of the earliest photographic portraits of a religious figure in Peking (1870's-1880s)


Lost City Ranch, Nevada[early 1930s]


Inside a general store.[1920]


San Francisco circa 1927. “Cadillac and swimmers at Fleishhacker Pool.”

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American missionary doctor checks health of old Korean man



Celebrating the founding of the People's Republic of China in Shanghai, 1950.


Charles Bowles, aka "Black Bart", American stagecoach robber, ca.1888


"March for justice after the greensboro massacre", undated


Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944


Disneyland opening day, July 17, 1955


Vietnam: An Australian Special Air Service (SAS) recon team getting ready to go out on patrol. A New Zealander pilot in background.


Workers on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City Nov. 3 1915

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Dedication of Los Angeles Municipal Airport, 1930



Northrop's Flying Wing Bomber, the XB-35 in flight in 1946. Developed during WW2, the project was terminated shortly after the war, due to its technical difficulties.


H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose", ca.1947



Adolf Tolkachev, a Soviet engineer who spied for the U.S., being arrested and hauled away by the KGB after being stopped at a roadblock (1985). Tolkachev was known as the "billion dollar spy" as his contributions saved the American military billions in research and development costs.


US paratrooper skips rope with south vietnamese children, 1966


King George VI with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, the Commander of the 21st Army Group, on the King's arrival in Holland. 12 October 1944.



Men wearing oxygen masks next to Northwest Airlines plane. Boston airport, February 23, 1939

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Gurkha (Nepalese) POW in WWI German Camp in Berlin


General Pinochet saluting Salvador Allende, 1970s


Park Avenue, NYC. 1964.



Freed slaves by a canal in Richmond, VA, 1865.


Messerschmitt Bf 110 From the Zerstörergeschwader 26 en Route to England, 1940


"Life in the Navy", Kendo aboard a Japanese battleship, ca 1910-15


Russian battleship Tsesarevich, a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, docked, ca. 1915


Amelia Earhart begins her journey.[1937]

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Elizabeth II firing a British L85 battle rifle in 1993


Stalin with a group of prisoners at the Kutais jail Russia 1903



Stevedore at the Fulton fish market holding giant lobster claw. New York City, 1943. Photo Gordon Parks



A Legionaire sounding taps for the War dead. Gloucester, Massachusetts. Memorial Day, 1943.


American mortar crew in action near the Rhine, 1945




U.S. troops wade ashore from a LCVP landing craft, off "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944


Observation car of the Santa Fe de Luxe extra fare train between Chicago and L.A., 1912


German soldiers on maneuvers around Metz, circa 1910

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Library of the Paris Conservatory of Music, 1895



soldier aiming his L1A1 over the notorious Bogside Area, Northern Ireland, circa 1970s/80s


Looking north on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, c. 1910



The Treasury in the Tomb of Tutankhamun, 1923


Miss Universe contestants continue to pose for pictures despite Miss New Zealand having passed out from heat exhaustion. (Long Beach, California 1954).



Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess in 1952, the largest all-metal flying boat ever constructed.


Female workers operating cranes in the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, Nottingham, England, 1917



Americans visiting Paris in December 1933 celebrated the end of Prohibition in a “real two-fisted manner,” the NY Times reported that year. Just 15 years earlier, the paper had run a large advertisement with the headline, "BOOZE is the worst non-essential. STOP IT!"

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Preparing for an assault on a warehouse in Stalingrad, most likely in the later part of 1942.


A German prisoner of war escorted by a Soviet soldier with a PPSh-41, 1943.


German soldiers in the flooded trenches, Soviet Union, 1943.


Soviet soldier in the liberated village.



German prisoners march to Moscow after defeat at Belarus during “Operation Bagration”, 17 July 1944


German prisoners, 17 July 1944


German prisoners, 17 July 1944


German prisoners, 17 July 1944

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German prisoners, 17 July 1944 57,000 German prisoners march to Moscow after defeat at Belarus during “Operation Bagration”, 17 July 1944.


German POWs packed into the Nonant le Pin prisoner camp, 1944



Just some of the tens of thousands of POW’s captured after the collapse of the Faliase Pocket.


Captured Italian soldiers are escorted to the rear by German soldiers during the Battle of Caporetto, 1917



Joseph Goebbels awards 16-year old Hitler Youth member Willi Hübner the Iron Cross for the defense of Lauban. March 9, 1945.


Two Ukrainian Askaris peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.


Two RAF airmen are buried with full military honors by occupying German soldiers, Channel Islands, 1943

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British tanks maneuvering trenches during the Battle of Cambrai, the first use of tanks in mass, France, 1917


Two American soldiers inspect a destroyed German King Tiger tank, Belgium, 1944


German soldiers take boots and other equipment from dead American soldiers at a crossroads in Belgium, 1944


Crossed rifles in the sand placed as a tribute to this fallen soldier, 1944


Bodies of dead American soldiers near half sunken sanding craft on Buna beach, 1943. Due to the number of dead bodies on the beach, the Allies nicknamed it “Maggot Beach”.
The face of war: The first press pictures of dead U.S. soldiers that was presented to the public, 1943


A young private waits on the beach during the Marine landing at Da Nang, 1965


Nazi General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad, Italy, 1945

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Tutankhamun lies intact with his burial mask on - this photograph was taken as the coffin lid was taken off. The 24 pound mask is made of solid gold inlaid with blue glass and other semi-precious stones, the distinctive #nemes head cloth depict the Egyptian goddesses Nekhbet the vulture, symbolising the sovereignty over Upper Egypt and Wadjet the snake upon the brow symbolising the sovereignty over Lower Egypt. Not seen in this famous image is a protection spell inscribed on the back and shoulders of the mask.


Carter and a worker examine the solid gold innermost sarco****us, shown within a gilded, laminated wood coffin of different coloured glass.


Howard Carter examines Tutankhamun's sarco****us.


Howard Carter, Arthur Callender and an Egyptian worker open the doors of the innermost shrine and get their first look at Tutankhamun's sarco****us.


Carter, Callender and two Egyptian workers carefully dismantle one of the golden shrines within the burial chamber.


Carter, Mace and an Egyptian worker carefully roll up the linen pall covering the second shrine.


Inside the outermost shrine in the burial chamber, a huge linen pall with gold rosettes, reminiscent of the night sky, covers the smaller shrines within. The mural upon right northern wall depicts three scenes of Tutankhamun in the guise of Osiris, with Ay, the new Pharaoh performing the 'opening of the mouth ceremony'. On the left western wall are shown various Egyptian deities such as Horus and Maat.


A statue of Anubis on a shrine with pallbearers' poles in the treasury of the tomb. Anubis, the canid-headed god was associated with the afterlife - a primary role of which Anubis would weigh the heart of the deceased to determine if they were worthy of entering the land of the dead.

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A gilded bust of the Celestial Cow Mehet-Weret and chests sit in the treasury of the tomb.


Chests inside the treasury made from various materials including ivory, ebony and Egyptian redwood which would've contained jewelry, clothing and cosmetics for the boy king.


An assortment of model boats in the treasury of the tomb. In all, some 35 boats were located throughout the tomb, symbolic of the transporting the king on his journey through the streams of the underworld towards resurrection.


Howard Carter, Arthur Callender and an Egyptian worker wrap one of the sentinel statues for transport.


Numerous chariots are stacked up against the wall.


A ceremonial bed in the shape of the Celestial Cow, surrounded by provisions and other objects in the antechamber of the tomb. The white ovoid shaped objects are food offerings, including one containing beef!


Ornately carved alabaster vases in the antechamber, containing perfume.


Under the lion bed in the antechamber are several boxes and chests, and an ebony and ivory chair which Tutankhamun used as a child.

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A gilded lion bed, clothes chest and other objects in the antechamber. The wall of the burial chamber is guarded by statues.


Lord Carnarvon, financier of the excavation and Howard Carter posing outside the Burial Chamber


Lord Carnarvon reads on the veranda of Carter's house near the Valley of the Kings.


Arthur Mace and Alfred Lucas work on a golden chariot from Tutankhamun's tomb outside the "laboratory" in the tomb of Sethos II.


In a "laboratory" set up in the tomb of Sethos II, conservators Arthur Mace and Alfred Lucas clean one of the sentinel statues from the antechamber.



Adolf Hitler declaring war on America, December 11, 1941.


apanese Special Naval Landing Forces with gas masks and rubber gloves during a chemical attack, Battle of Shanghai, 1937



Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital, 1940

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President John F. Kennedy celebrates Christmas with his family, Palm Beach, Florida, 1962



Soviet soldiers posing for a photograph with one of the Bamiyan Buddhas, during the Soviet-Afghan war, 1980s. The statues were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001


President Lyndon B. Johnson watches his grandson play with the telephone, by Yoichi Okamoto, 1968


Cuyahoga river on fire, 1969


Airline stewardess, 1968.


The first photo of the USS Enterprise model and the men who built it, 1965.


German soldiers on a train headed towards the front lines at the beginning of World War 1, 1914



Marlon Brando typing with his cat in 1954.

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1964: “Nannies” (actually well-costumed stuntmen) are blown away by special effects “wind” on the Cherry Tree Lane set built in the Disney Studio’s Stage 4 during the production of Mary Poppins


Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats a few meters away from Space Shuttle Challenger during the historic first use of a nitrogen-propelled manned maneuvering unit in 1984; NASA


Kaiser Wilhelm II and Enver Pasha at Gallipoli, 1916.


Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941


Queensboro Bridge/ 59th street bridge under construction, on August 8, 1907


Soldiers departing for Egypt from Feltham Station (London) lean out of their windows to kiss their loved ones goodbye (1935)


Lyndon Johnson covers his ears as Pierre Salinger speaks during a California Campaign Parade (October 1964). Johnson was running for his first election as President. Salinger was running to keep the Senate position he had been appointed to by Johnson due to the death of Senator Engle.


A cutlass drill on HMS Wolverine, 1882.

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Hawker Firefly's on the deck of the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney during a snowstorm. Korean War, 1951


Cuyahoga River near Jaite, Ohio, 1968


Former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau, holding current Canadian PM Justin Trudeau like a football, 1973


Aerial View of New York, 16th December 1951


The right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty on display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia - 1876


Sailors watch on as the USS Shaw explodes in Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.


USS Shaw explodes during the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii Around 9:30 AM December 7, 1941


Businessmen going for lunch, 1972

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30 feet of snow, Rollins Pass, Moffat Road, Colorado. 1915.


Native American scout "Bloody Knife" in service of George Custer. Armed with a Winchester "Yellowtail" repeating rifle. Wears a U.S. army coat with Corporal insignia. Warned Custer of the threat of Little Bighorn, and was subsequently killed in the battle.


Blizzard of 1888 in New York City --- 200 dead in NYC. 200 dead in other locations. Wires broke from weight of ice. (March 11-14 1888)


Bath School Disaster --- After murdering his wife and setting fire to his farm, Andrew Kehoe detonates hundreds of pounds of dynamite and incendiary pyrotol in an elementary school. 58 people were injured. 38 children and 6 adults were killed. (Bath Township - Michigan - May 18 1927)


As Queen Elizabeth II rides past, a foot guard passes out (1970)


An exhausted nurse emerges from a gruelling shift at the 44th Evacuation Hospital in Normandy, France, 1944,



Sioux Indian Chief Joe Black Fox, 1898,


Winston Churchill visits the grave of FDR in March, 1946 as Eleanor looks on. Eleanor's final resting place is in the far left.