31 Photos From the Vault Of History

1.

Police mugshot of Vladimir Lenin at age 25, 1895

2.

Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

3.

The first Wal-Mart.

4.

A young boy celebrates the liberation of the Netherlands by Allied Forces with a cigarette, 1945

5.

Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.

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The models for "American Gothic" 1930s

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Prisoners beat two guards after their concentration camp is liberated by US forces

8.

Construction of George Washington's nose on Mount Rushmore in 1935

9.

John Belushi poses with Steve Martin on the day he died in 1980.

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The dead body of Che Guevara executed by the Bolivians on Oct. 9, 1967

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A house that was skewered by a huge tree uprooted by the Johnstown Flood that was caused by the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, 1889

12.

"Beer day", the day that prohibition on beer came to an end in Iceland, 1 March, 1989

13.

An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. The airman is John McCain.

14.

David Bowie and Mick Ronson enjoy lunch on the train in 1973

15.

Four O'Clock shift at the Ford Motor Company, Detroit-ca. 1916

16.

Hitler Youth during a fire fighting drill, 1933

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IRA fighter fires an AR-18 at Pro-British troops during skirmishes in County Armin, Northern Ireland, 1972.

18.

Jobhunting in 1930

19.

Steve Jobs giving IBM the finger, 1983

20.

People's temple member holding a sign showing her support for cult leader Jim Jones, 1978

21.

A little American girl of Japanese ancestry waits with the family baggage before being evacuated to the internment camps in the spring of 1942, California

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A semi-nude FBI agent delivers a 1 million ransom to skyjackers, 1972

23.

LCOL James H. Howard proudly displays his kill markings on the side of his P-51 Mustang on January 11th 1944.

24.

Paul Remos, a circus strongman, hoists his son up in the air using only his right arm to feed a giraffe at the London zoo, 1950s

25.

15 Year Old Erika Kornelia Szeles a Hungarian Resistance member who fought against the Soviets during the 1956 revolution

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Young German boy walks beside corpses of hundreds of prisoners from Bergen Belsen, April 20 1945

27.

Fidel Castro at the Lincoln Memorial, 1959

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"Taking a bath at twelve below zero in December along the Sha O River," Russo-Japanese War, c. 1904.

29.

Susan B. Anthony pummeled and arrested for attempting to vote in 1872.

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Black children standing behind a fence of a "whites-only" playground, 1956. Mobile, Alabama, USA.

31.

A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right.