Rare Historic Photos

Rare historical photos and the backstory.

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Cops arresting a drunk dude in a skeleton costume 1950

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A fashionable young lady in London, 1969

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The Statue of Liberty being assembled in Paris, 1883.

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The Endurance ship being stuck in the Antarctic ice (forever), 1915

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Demonstration against Prohibition. Chicago, 1920s

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The Beatles Arriving in New York, 1964

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Moving a 7,600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in a Romanian town​, 1987.

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In the 1950s, the A. C. Gilbert Company distributed the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a toy kit allowing kids to make nuclear reactions at home using actual radioactive material.

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Two suited businessmen, enjoying the sight of an attractive young secretary in a mini skirt, 1974.

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Russia and the US signs a treaty where Ukraine is giving up their nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances in 1994.

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Opera singer Kristina Nilsson, who was plucked from poverty because of her talent, visiting her sister who remained a farmer's wife. Sweden 1900.

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The all-new baby safety seat. Never leave your kid inside a hot car while you shop again. 1950s

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The Stonehenge Reconstruction, taken around 1919. (Yes, it was heavily reconstructed).

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Motel manager James Brock pours muriatic acid in the Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool, to get black swimmers out of the pool. June 18, 1964

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Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, 1960.

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Cousins Tsar Nicholas II and King George V in their last photo together in 1916

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Even in the 1870s people were obsessed with cats. Photograph by Harry Pointer.

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Manute Bol, the tallest man in the NBA, defending the hoop in the college, 1980s.

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Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe and Matt Dillon, 1983

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Clothing For the Emancipated Man - The Unique Fashion Show in New York, 1968.