Remarkable Historic Photos |
| Looking at these photos, I feel as if I've opened an old treasure chest. I appreciate how these nostalgic photos present a window to a world now gone. Featuring strong images ranging from everyday scenes to famous figures and game-changing historic events, every one of these photos has a powerful story to tell. |
| Leo Tolstoy tells his grandchildren a story in 1909. |
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| The Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre after WWII. |
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| The height of modern technology, 1900. |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. removes a burnt cross from his lawn, 1960. |
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| Some of the last samurai warriors pose for a photo (c. 1840-1860). |
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| The streets of New York, 1900. |
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| Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue being built, 1920s. |
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| Hitler's abandoned bunker, photographed by Allied soldiers, 1945. |
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| Elvis Presley as a soldier in the US Army, 1958. |
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| Bulletproof vests being tested, 1923. |
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| Paris' iconic Eiffel Tower being built, July 1888. |
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| Child laborers taking a smoking break, 1880.Yes, a SMOKING break. |
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| Fidel Castro pays his respects at the Lincoln Memorial, 1959. |
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| Hugo Gernsback invents the Television Goggles, 1963.Funny that didn't catch on... |
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| Adolf Hitler meets Pope Pius XI, 1930s. |
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| A soldier feeds a goat a banana during the Battle of Saipan, 1944.Just goes to prove kindness can be found anywhere. |
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| Queen Elizabeth II - then Princess Elizabeth - during WWII. |
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| A hippo in the circus pulls a cart, 1924.Doesn't seem too pleased about it. |
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| An American classroom in 1900. |
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| One of McDonald's first branches, 1950s. |
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| Test dummies, Nevada's atomic bomb test site, 1950s. |
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| The Disney brothers, Roy and Walt, opening Disney Studios, 1923. |
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| The last inmates of Alcatrazleaving the famous prison in 1963. |
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| The Quagga, an extinct animal related to the zebra, South Africa, late 19th century. |
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| Winston Churchill at the beach in 1922.Stylish! |
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