21 Incredibly Rare Photos From The Past

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US Tanks facing Soviet Union Tanks at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin

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Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in WWI, 1916

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A victim of the Hiroshima atomic explosion (1951)

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Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to have been struck by a meteorite. [1954]

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The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm. [1890]

6.

The World’s Record black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellen. It weight 425 lbs. He bought it in alone. [1903]

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Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister. 1933 in Geneva by Alfred Eisenstaedt taken right after he realized the photographer was Jewish.

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Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.

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Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, 1945

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Testing of a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.

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Body of frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish fighters to intimidate Soviet troops (1939)

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British sailor removing the leg irons off a slave

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(COLORIZED) Lt. Custer and Union Troops (1862)

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Hitler looking at the Gustav Railway gun (1942)

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The mummified heart of Auguste Delagrange, a purported vampire. After being accused of killing over 40 people at the turn of the last century, he was finally killed in 1912. They even pierced his heart with a stake, seen here.

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Headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist Party (1934)

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Bombs dropped on Kobe, Japan (1945)

18.

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in Giza (1961)

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Prohibition- Alcohol barrels to be burned (1924)

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Pyramid of captured German helmets, New York (1918)

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Ruby Bridges, first african-american to attend a white elementary school in the South (Nov. 14th, 1960)

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Samurai (ca. 1860-1880)

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Florida’s last Civil War veteran, Bill Lundy, poses with a jet fighter, 1955

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18 year old French Résistance fighter, Simone Segouin, with war name Nicole Minet. She had come from Chartres to help liberate the capital. Paris, August 19, 1944.