27 Fascinating Photos From History's Vault

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

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

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

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IBM shipping a 5 megabyte hard drive in 1956.

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

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

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

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

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A woman arrested for illegally serving alcohol during Prohibition.

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

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A chihuahua riding a greyhound in the 1880’s.

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Bonnie and Clyde in March 1933.

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

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Finishing the transcontinental phone line in Wendover, Utah.

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

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

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Barack Obama at Harvard Law School.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Stevie Wonder at a school for blind children in London.

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