20 Rare Photographs Salvaged From History

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“The Masked Marvel”, the earliest known masked wrestler in the United States, at the Manhattan Opera House in 1915

2.

The UK women’s Olympic swim team, Stockholm, 1912

3.

Rows of infected people assembled into warehouses suffering from 1918 Influenza Pandemic.

4.

Mississippi State and Southern Miss mascots relax behind the goalpost. 1985

5.

Russian internal security forces during the 1993 Moscow constitutional crisis

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Contestants in a British holiday camp beauty contest line up in Marilyn Monroe masks. Butlin's, Clacton-on-Sea, 1952.

7.

Central Park, NYC crowd watching Apollo 11 lunar landing, July 20, 1969

8.

'79 Camaro used to deliver supplies to Sarajevo under siege during Bosnian war, 1993

9.

"A couple on the streets of London wear masks during the flu outbreak" England - London, 1930

10.

Adolf Hitler in his childhood, 1890

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17 year old Jonathan P. Jackson takes Superior Court Judge Harold Haley hostage in an attempt to negotiate the freedom of the Soledad brothers, included his brother, the black activist George Jackson. Marin County courthouse, California, August 7, 1970.

12.

Construction of Eiffel Tower, 1880

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Photograph of the last wild Barbary Lion, Algeria, 1893

14.

USA 3rd Infantry Division enjoy their Christmas dinner on the hood of a Jeep. Uncle Sam had great logistics and treated his soldiers well. Northern Italy December 1943.

15.

Nintendo's first office, Kyoto, 1889

16.

Interior of a German Torture Chamber in Belgium, WW2, showing some of the instruments of torture and roughly made coffins.

17.

The Olympic Flame arrives in Berlin in 1936.

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Hospital ships USNS Mercy, December 1986

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Firefighters trying to save the building during NATO bombing of Belgrade in Kosovo War. Belgrade, Serbia, 1999

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Men wrestling in a ring full of fish during the Smelt Carnival in Marinette, Wisconsin, 1939