24 Stellar Pictures Found in the Vault of History

1. Corporal Jackie a Baboon in the South African Army during World War I. The official mascot of the 3rd Transvaal Regimen. His owner, Albert Marr was would not leave Jackie at home. He had a ration set, and his own pay book. Jackie would salute officers and light soldiers’ cigarettes. 1915

2. Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee. 1947

3. Iranian women protest against an Islamic dress code for all female employees in government offices, 1980

4. Charles Thompson being greeted by his new classmates, just 4 months earlier the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional. He was the only black child at the school. Sept 1954

5. Lee Harvey Oswald being escorted by a detective, moments before being shot by Jack Ruby (in the grey fedora on the right). November 24, 1963

6. Peasant girls with berries in a village near Vologda, Russian Empire. Photo by Prokudin-Gorsky, 1909

7. Santa Claus with the children during Croatian War. Vukovar, 1992

8. Soviet soldiers, so called “bio-robots” work for a mere 60 seconds clearing radioactive debris of Chernobyl reactor 3’s roof- 1986

9. German supply train during Operation Barbarossa, Winter of 1941

10. Rock and roll musicians Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash as “The Million Dollar Quartet”. This was a one night jam session at Sun Studios (Memphis, Tennessee 1956)

11. A Berlin crowd listens as a German officer reads the Kaiser’s order for mobilisation, 1st August 1914

12. “Mermaids” in Disneyland waving at passengers on the submarine ride. c.1960

13. Couples rush to secure a marriage license and get married in Las Vegas, ahead of Executive Order 11241 taking effect, which eliminated the draft exception for married men. August 26, 1965.

14. Babies left to sleep outside, strengthening the immune system, Moscow 1958

15. John Clarence Woods on the 16th of October 1946 shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials . He was tasked with the duty of putting to death the convicted NAZI war criminals

16. This is Samantha Smith. When she was 10, she wrote a letter to the leader of the Soviet Union, Yury Andropov, asking what he would do to avoid a nuclear war. Andropov responded to the letter and invited her to visit. This helped ease Cold War tensions and she became America’s youngest ambassador

17. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects Atlantic Wall defenses, early 1944

18. Patients having a happy time fishing and swimming under the walls of the old chateau. These American soldiers are recovering from war neurosis, as the scientists now call the condition that used to be described as ‘shell-shock.’ September 1918

19. This is how enemy aircrafts were detected before the invention of RADAR, 1921

20. Sharecroppers in front of their cabin. Boone Arkansas. October 1935

21. Belka, a Soviet dog who went to space in the Sputnik 5. She returned to Earth safely. August 1960.

22. The “Dodge City Peace Commission” in 1883. Wyatt Earp is seated, second from left; Luke Short is standing, second from left; and Bat Masterson is standing, third from left.

23. Wall Street in Deadwood, 1877

24. (November 4, 1922) Berlin dog-owners line up to have their pets euthanized due to hyperinflation occurring throughout Weimar Germany. They could not afford to feed their dogs any longer.