History is awesome. Here’s another collection of rarely seen photos from the past that many of you may find interesting.
1. Moving a 7600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania (1987)
2. Black officer protecting KKK member from protesters (1983)
3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as a young gentleman (1986)
4. Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. Probably the earliest born individual captured on film
5. Transporting ‘The Apple’, the first Indian satellite (1981)
6. The glasses John Lennon wore when he was assassinated (1980)
7. Spielberg doing the first Indiana Jones movie (1980)
8. Due to strong crosswinds, a landing plane crashes with a truck standing near the runway (1976)
9. Highway picnic during the Oil Crisis (1973)
10. A foreskin away from death. A Pakistani soldier during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence examines whether the man is circumcised or not (Hindus are not)
11. A stripper visits the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange (late 1970s)
12. Man working at analog computer (1968)
13. Soviet soldier chasing young man who had thrown stones at a tank (The Prague Spring of 1968)
14. Early morning train, Japan (1964)
15. Test pilot George Aird – flying a English Electric Lightning F1
16. The Beatles play for 18 people in the Aldershot club. They were to become superstars in one and a half years time (December 1961)
17. Canteen for Disney workers (1961)
18. The East Bay Dragons, the first black bikers’ club, Oakland, California (1960s)
19. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing (1960)
20. A swimmobile in New York City (1960)
21. Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer “Ip” in Beverly Hills, CA (1958)
22. Charlton Heston as Moses in “The Ten Commandments”, drive-in theater, Utah (1958)
23. Uploading the first 5MB hard disk to a PanAm plane (1956)
24. Coca Cola is introduced in France (1950)
25. A flight simulator (1942)
26. An opium den in Singapore (1941)
27. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin (1928)
28. Filming of the MGM screen credits, marking the beginning of the Hollywood era (1928)
29. Factory workers race on the roof (test track) of the Fiat Factory in Turin, Italy (1923)
30. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb, 3,245 years untouched (1922)
31. A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach (1920)
32. The first international match at Wimbledon (1883)
33. Princeton students after a snowball fight (1893)
34. Interior of a London Pub (1898)
35. Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him (1896)
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