27 Fascinating Photos From History's Vault

1. Edward Llewellen holding the largest black sea bass ever caught. It weighed 425 pounds.

2. Marilyn Monroe in the scandalous dress she wore when she sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy.

3. Carving one of the presidents’ eyes on Mount Rushmore in the 1930’s.

4. IBM shipping a 5 megabyte hard drive in 1956.

5. Crowd awaiting news on the World Series at a local newspaper office in 1919.

6. Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at Jagger’s 29th birthday party.

7. A photographer in West Berlin kicking a policeman in East Berlin.

8. The space chimp holding a newspaper after his trip to space in 1961.

9. A woman arrested for illegally serving alcohol during Prohibition.

10. The Statue of Liberty as seen from Jersey City in 1973.

11. A chihuahua riding a greyhound in the 1880’s.

12. Bonnie and Clyde in March 1933.

13. President Gerald Ford playing a traditional Japanese game with a geisha in Kyoto, Japan.

14. Finishing the transcontinental phone line in Wendover, Utah.

15. Chevy founder Louis Chevrolet driving #42 during the paving of the Indianapolis Moto Speedway.

16. A lifeguard class at Howard University during the 1940’s.

17. Barack Obama at Harvard Law School.

18. Children using worthless money as toys during the hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920’s

19. The Freedom Train which toured the country in the 1940’s.

20. Indian suffragettes demanding votes for women during a march to London in 1911.

21. The first woman to ever walk in space – cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya.

22. Bernard Otto Holtermann posing beside the Holtermann Nugget, the largest chunk of gold ever found.

23. American Horse, an Oglala Lakota chief, statesman, educator and historian.

24. A five-gun salute from a Fireboat celebrating Detroit’s 250th birthday.

25. Stevie Wonder at a school for blind children in London.

26. Reverend Vernon Mitchell in a London strip club discussing what should be censored from the show.