20 Fascinating Photos From History's Vault

1.

Michelin man style boxing in 1917.

2.

Unsettling Clown, 1920.

3.

An experimental transmitter in the 1940s.

4.

An early female body builder, 1890s.

5.

Medical students goofing off with cadavers in 1905. WTF?

6.

A boy hiding from a giant angry rooster.

7.

Walking a pet snake, 1930s.

8.

A family poses for a photo in 1910.

9.

The winner and runner up of a beauty contest in 1923.

10.

A mother and her daughter, a day after the daughter had died, 1890s. This was part of Victorian post mortem photography.

11.

Contortionist Edith Lambelle Langerfeld in 1908.

12.

Man with a fencing accident, 1920.

13.

Broadway performer, 1903.

14.

Clown, 1924.

15.

An old man riding a bike passes a young girl riding on hers.

16.

A picture of the Boogeyman to scare kids, 1922.

17.

A man with that rare disease that makes skin super stretchy, 1904.

18.

The Sausage Queen, 1955.

19.

A woman inside an electric bath, or early sunbed, 1900.

20.

A mental health patient and his doll in the 1920s.