Rare Historical photos

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Dunno if it was posted before, but will post anyway.



Manfred von Richthofen, aka “The Red Baron”, petting his dog on an airfield.




General Custer and his men during the American Civil War.





The first photo taken in space from 1946.





A crash on board an aircraft carrier sometime during World War II.




German air raid on Moscow in 1941.





The only photograph of a living Quagga from 1870. This species is now extinct.




The cast and creator of Star Trek stand in front of the first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, in 1979.





A view of Boston in 1860 taken from a hot air balloon.

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Eleven year-old Adolf Hitler.





Henry Ford (the founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera and the practical light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) lounging together.




Stalin goofing around.




Mount Rushmore as it appeared in its more natural state.




The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb.





Ferdinand Porsche (yes, THAT Porsche) showcasing the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935.




John F. Kennedy has a tea party with his daughter, Caroline.

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This is believed to be the last picture taken of Titanic before her sinking.






An actual Titanic boarding pass.



Titanic leaves port in 1912.




Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.



Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888.



Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908.



A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.



Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death.

[RICHSTRONG]

Repped. Love this schit.

[Sanseth]

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The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.




Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.




Child laborers in 1880.







Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.



The first McDonalds.



Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.



British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.

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A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.



The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.




A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.



Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.



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The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.



The Microsoft staff in 1978.



A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941

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[kfx450r]

Pretty sure there are like 5 photos of that quagga if Im not mistaken. Still cool to see an actual photo of an extinct animal.

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The New York Times Writers, 1942



New York City, summer of 1969, start of the miniskirt era



Tor**** shop at the Washington Navy Yard, circa 1917



Inside a 1913 Drug Store




Customers at a London music store listen to the latest record releases in soundproof listening booths, 1955

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Only confirmed photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, before giving his famous address, November 19, 1863




Communist Party USA meeting in Chicago, 1939



The Last Kiss WWII



Mark Twain inside the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, 1894



Soviet soldiers take a break to watch an acrobatic show on the march towards Berlin 1945



Hungarian Revolution of 1956

[coozapalooza]

New York City, summer of 1969, start of the miniskirt era

hnggggggggh yes please, need my time machine pronto

[BlownStarfish]

Hell yah man, Good to see some different stuff from the Misc. As a history teacher, this is right up my alley.

Hitler even looks like a psycho as a child!

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French Resistance member Georges Blind smiling in front of a German execution squad. October 1944



Bombs dropped on Kobe, Japan, 1945



Jewish refugees, approaching allied soldiers, become aware that they have just been liberated, April, 1945



Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan in the generals tent near Antietam battlefield October 3, 1862



The Kennedy trio in the mid 30s as teenagers John, Bobby and Teddy



Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight. 1893. Princeton, NJ.



A Japanese family returning home from a relocation center camp in Hunt, Idaho on May 10, 1945



Bruce Lee sparring with Ip Man, 1955

[richard noggin]

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[xRags]

in for later, I posted a similar thread once before. Gonna go bump that.












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A bag-piper leads men out of the trenches during WWI



Congress of Freaks Baileys Circus 1924



First photo of a human being 1838




Wright Brothers Flight at Kittyhawk 1903



First Cadillac dealership in New York



Al capone and his son



RMS Titanics propeller dwarfing its makers, 1911



Titanic survivors

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Zeppelin over capitol



Charlie Chaplin in front of New York crowd, 1918



German SS soldiers



Dresden post bombing



WW2 Victory

[GoldsNightCrew]

New York City, summer of 1969, start of the miniskirt era

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[myfacewhen]

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German soldiers during World War 1, 1914-1918



An abandoned Jadtiger, 1940s



An American F-105 warplane is shot down and the pilot ejects and opens his parachute. Taken by North Vietnamese photograper Mai Nam in September 1966 near Vinh Phuc, north of Hanoi




Two border patrol officers attempt to keep a fugitive in the US, 1920s



American Marines in hard fighting on Iwo Jima using a captured Japanese machine-gun



Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles Beach in Normandy, on June 6, 1944



Prisoners of War, World War One, 1917

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Adolf Hitler attending memorial service of Polish First Marshall Jozef Pilsudski in Berlin, 1935. This is the only time that Fuhrer has attended a holy mass as a leader of the Third Reich



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



Driver of a Bugatti Type 13 has a bit of a mishap 1920s



Two members of the 1st Punjab Cavalry in 1893



Three soldiers in Korea, June, 1952



The Grand Staircase of Titanic 1911-1912



A 17 year-old Pele on a street of Sweden before the 1958 World Cup



Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad playing with a cat, late 1942, early 1943

[Turamber]

German air raid on Moscow in 1941.

How could the Nazis lose with lightening weapons?

[shanny66]

Great pictures
Sometimes we forget all of this ever happened

[DieVerwandlung]

awesome! i love this stuff.

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Soviet soldiers pose in front of a crashed Nazi plane after liberating Sevastopol. May 1944



A napalm attack near U.S. troops on patrol in South Vietnam, circa 1966



A Panzer III tank crewman surrenders to an advancing Brittish soldier during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942



Evacuating Saigon, April 30, 1975. An American evacuee punches away a South Vietnamese man for a place on the last chopper out of the US embassy.



152 mm Howitzer battery fires during Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, 1944



This worker in a Van Nuys CA factory in 1944 soon started calling herself Marilyn Monroe



Charlie Chaplin without makeup



One of the oldest photos of the Great Sphinx, from 1880.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge construction, 1928

And its opening in 1932

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The beginning of the Hollywood era: the filming of the MGM screen credits, 1928



The Statue of Liberty surrounded by scaffolding as workers complete the final stages in Paris. Circa 1885



In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a hilltop as American soldiers drive through the town of St. Lo. France, 1944.



Beautiful color image of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5 fighters, of Fighter Squadron JG54, during flight, 1943



Three German soldiers in body armor and gas masks demonstrate operating a 2cm Becker-Flugzeugkanone, an anti-aircraft gun, Western Front, circa 1918



Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo the Lion, the mascot for the Hollywood film studio MGM, 1957



Soviet Plane-spotters around 1917



Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea