24 Fascinating and Rare Photos From History's Vault

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20 Year old Dame Maggie Smith doing a shoot for one of her early work in 1954,

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27 Year old future Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar with his then 15 year old soon to be wife Maria Victoria Henao in 1976.

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Ty Cobb shakes the hand of the black Detroit Tigers Navin Field assistant Alex Rivers in 1919. Ty Cobb openly supported integration of MLB, and has numerous documented interviews talking respectfully of blacks, but now he is known for his racism.

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The funeral of former French president François Mitterrand being attended by his wife Danielle Mitterrand (far left), his mistress Anne Pingeot (second on the right), and his daughter Mazarine Pingeot (whom he had with his mistress, center) in 1996.

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John F Kennedy holding his dog in his late teens in the mid 1930s.

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Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) riding the subway in Argentina, 2008.

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Future President of the United States William Howard Taft riding a water buffalo during his governorship of the Philippines, 1902.

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Tippu Tip from Zanzibar was one of the largest slave and ivory traders in the 1800s. Here he is posing in 1886. He would have his men kidnap and then sell people from the tribes all in and around his territory.

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Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (left) with his all female bodyguards walking with former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in Kiev in 2008.

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Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn of Germany on a Yacht in 1955.

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Princess Diana playing tennis as a teenager in 1976.

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A young Jackie Chan at an airport sometime in the 1970s.

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Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa with his wife and some friends in 1914.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a friend, 1913.

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Fidel Castro with children all wearing fake beards.

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Mahatma Gandhi sometime in the 1890s.

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Adolf Hitler signing autographs for some Hitler Youth children sometime in the 1930's.

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Annie Oakley, famous for her shooting skills, shows off her riding skills in 1890.

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Donald Trump (age 24) outside his car in New York City, US in 1970.

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Winston Churchill and Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1902.

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Margaret Thatcher as a chemist in the 1940's.

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Benito Mussolini with his wife Rachele and 3 of his 5 children, early 1940s.

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Nelson Mandela (left) sparring with professional boxer Jerry Moloi on the rooftop of the South African Associated Newspapers building in downtown Joburg, 1953.

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Wyatt Earp standing next to his car in the late 1920s.