36 Must-See Photos From The Past

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Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938

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Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885

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Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956

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Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923

5.

Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916

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Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937

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Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924

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Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901

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106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990

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Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937

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Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961

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Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII

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Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944

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Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940

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Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961

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Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965

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Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940

18.

Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917

19.

Suntan vending machine, 1949

20.

Measuring bathing suits if they were too short, women would be fined, 19208242s

21.

Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960

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Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964

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Lifeguard on the coast, 19208242s

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Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890

25.

Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953

26.

Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

27.

Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

28.

Hitlers officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

29.

Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage

30.

The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927

31.

Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963

32.

Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussauds Wax Museum in London, 1930

33.

Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929

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Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893

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23 year-old Evelyn McHales suicide she jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947

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First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967