30 Fascinating Historical Photos

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Tourists explore massive dead tree with tunnel cut out for a road in Sequoia National Forest, May 1951.

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Three shafts of sunlight illuminate the basilica and its mosaic floor in the Vatican, December 1971.

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A kitten aboard a floating Victoria water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935.

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A sailor gets a tattoo on his arm in Virginia.

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Women use compact mirrors in packed crowd to catch sight of the queen in London, June 1966.

6.

Teenagers run and play on large white sand dunes in New Mexico, 1957.

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A quiet mosque in Palestine, 1926.

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Children swim and play in oceanside pool, February 1955.

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Girls watch artist painting picture of statue of Flemish artist in Bruges, Belgium, May 1955.

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The Moulin Rouge at Montmartre in Paris, 1923.

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A woman working on a mosaic of Mary and baby Jesus in Vatican City.

12.

A man sells goldfish in baggies tied to a tree branch in Beirut, Lebanon, February 1983.

13.

A young Kenyan woman holds her pet deer in Mombassa, March 1909.

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A field turns from orange to green as harvesters pick marigold flowers in Los Mochis, Mexico, 1967.

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A shark guides migrating salmon into the shallows off Baxter Cliffs in Australia, April 1995.

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Girls standing in water holding bunches of American Lotus, Amana, Iowa, November 1938.

17.

A boy sells lemonade from his front yard stand on Main Street in Aspen, Colorado, 1973.

18.

The Statue of Liberty hails dawn over New York Harbor in 1978

19.

A diver holding a hose for breathing compressed air feeds fish at Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, January 1955.

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Young boys throw a ball on a lush green hillside below castle ruins in Warwickshire, England, 1968.

21.

A white fallow stag stands in a forest in Switzerland, 1973.

22.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong floats in his space suit in a pool of water in 1967.

23.

A park visitor films an American black bear and her two cubs in Yellowstone, December 1965.

24.

Ear-deep in watermelon, a boy eats a juicy slice at a festival in Florida, December 1963.

25.

Women enjoy the benefits of a heated whirlpool in Saint Petersburg, Florida, 1973.

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Women sit in a modern chic boutique in Casablanca, 1971.

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A group of scarabs from the Scarabaeid family, July 1929.

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Children circle around an ultraviolet lamp to get a dose of vitamin D in Murmansk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, August 1977.

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A Native American sends smoke signals in Montana, June 1909.

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A wealthy group of young people relax by a pool in California, 1940.

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Irish Guards remain at attention after one guardsman faints in London, England, June 1966.