Fascinating Photos Collected From History
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Bonnie and Clyde in a photo found at one of their hide outs after a police raid. Joplin Missouri 1933
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Vladimir Lenin’s last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923
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Chorus girls relaxing in the dressing room between scenes during the filming of ‘Broadway’, 1928
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Widely considered the photo that changed the face of AIDS: A father comforts his son, David Kirby, on his deathbed in Ohio. Published in LIFE magazine, November 1990. Photo by Therese Frare
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Ralph Edwards and Marilyn Monroe at the Hollywood Entertainers baseball game in 1952…Dat Rump!
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Sailors at Pearl Harbor watch as the USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack. December 7, 1941
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Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie “Schindler’s List”, on the balcony of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp, Poland . 1943-44.
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The crew of Apollo 11 enjoy the traditional steak and egg breakfast before departing for the moon, July 16 1969
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Crew of the Japanese carrier Zuikaku give one final banzai cheer before the ship sinks. 1944
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A U.S. Marine approaches a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima. The soldier was buried for 1 1/2 days in this shell hole playing dead and ready with a live grenade inches away from his hand. Promising no resistance, the prisoner is given a cigarette he asked for and was dragged free from the hole.
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The bodies of Mussolini, his mistress, and fellow fascists are displayed in Milan; 29th April 1945
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Private box in Ford’s Theater, Washington, where President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on the night of April 14, 1865
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Flashback to 1924, when having a disability or medical condition brought you into the Ringling Brothers and Barnun & Bailey Circus of Freaks.
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This photo of a Blackfoot Chief during a recording session at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 proves that we cannot view history as that thing that happened a "really long time ago."
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Tourists enjoying that they were there after the fact at the Sequoia National Forest in May 1951.
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Good ole American vaudeville with the Three Stooges, who actually look like gangsters when out of character.
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Don't jump to conclusions, this giant water lily called the 'Queen Victoria' can actually hold up to a hundred pounds at the center.
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Training as an astronaut in the 1960s required a lot more than you might think. The Apollo spacecraft was scheduled to land in the ocean, which meant that the astronauts had to invest in water egress training.
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Peter Freuchen together with wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale. Peter is considered one of the most interesting men in the world. Not only was he known for his height of 6' 7", he was also an anthropologist, arctic explore, author, and journalist.
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Submarine crews don't see much daylight, so here's one in 1942 taking a course of sun-ray treatment in the depot ship.
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The original Ronald McDonald rivaled Pennywise. Willard Scott, pictured here, graduated from this position and eventually became the weatherman for The Today Show.
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Prepping some realistic hands for Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in the early to mid-twentieth century.
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Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born a dipygus with two separate pelvises. Her curious body helped her earn money for her family at a young age. At 19, she married doctor Clinton Bicknell. In documents, she was described as an intelligent lady and a refined woman.
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"Magic Hands" at West Berlin's Industrial Fair. This device was designed for handling radioactive materials. They presented it in this scenario to promote that fact that it was so delicate that it could be used to pin a diaper on properly, but they may have shot themselves in the foot with the display. I mean, come on. Look at it.
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