Intriguing Pictures From History's Vault

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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, somewhere in Arkansas, USA, circa 1933

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Oldest known photo of a tornado, taken about 20 miles SW of Howard, South Dakota, United States. (August 28th, 1884)

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Recording an episode of “Gang Busters”, true crime radio show, New York, 1930’s

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Adolf Hitler visits the tomb of Napoleon at Les Invalides, Paris, France (1940)

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Authenticated photo of Jesse James and Robert Ford, ca.1880’s

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Rasputin and groupies. Gorokhovo street flat, Saint Petersburg, 1914

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A German dispatch dog carries messages to the front line during a German offensive in January 1918

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East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989

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Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio at the Fairmont Banff Hotel in Banff, Canada, five months before their wedding. August 19, 1953

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Harassment during a civil rights sit-in at the Cherrydale Drug Fair in Arlington, VA June 10, 1960

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Members of Colonel Martinez’s Search Bloc with the body of Pablo Escobar. December 2, 1993

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Eva Braun at the Berghof.

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The only known photo of Albert Einstein with his E=MC^2 equation – 1934

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SS officer initiation – 1938

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Spectators at a slave auction in the town square of Easton, Maryland, c. 1850’s

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The moment of detonation at Nagasaki August 9, 1945

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The corpse of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler after his suicide by poison. May, 1945

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Billy the Kid, 1879

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152 mm Howitzer battery fires during Belorussian Strategic Offensive in 1944.

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A soldier sniffs the perfume of his girlfriend as he opens her letter in Vietnam, April 12, 1966.