Little Pictures Big History

1.

Disneyland Employee Cafeteria, 1961

2.

Big Jay McNeely driving the crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953

3.

A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began

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106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47, 1990

5.

Jacqueline Kennedy backstage watching her husband during the first televised debate against Richard Nixon 1960

6.

Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo the Lion, the mascot for the Hollywood film studio MGM, 1957

7.

Soviet Plane-spotters around 1917

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Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea

9.

Orville Wright flew for 9 minutes and 45 seconds, 1911

10.

League of German Girls dancing during the 1938 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany

11.

Robert F. Kennedy sleeps on the floor of a plane during his 1968 presidential campaign

12.

Chicago Cubs 1908 mascot was horrifying possibly a giant squirrel

13.

Mount Vesuvius eruption in the midst of WWII, as captured by American pilots, March 1944

14.

Muhammad Ali vs Cleveland Williams, 1966

15.

New York commuters reading of President Kennedys assassination, November 1963

16.

Notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his son in front of the White House. 1980s

17.

A Mongolian woman condemned to die of starvation, 1913

18.

Lincoln Assassination conspirator Lewis Payne in custody, April 1865

19.

Real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. 1928

20.

Helen Keller teaching Charlie Chaplin the manual alphabet 1919

21.

Opening the Mona Lisa after WWII

22.

Final days of Samurai, 1868 Japan

23.

Salvador Dali at a book signing, taken with a fisheye lens, by Philippe Halsman, 1963

24.

Last four couples standing in a Chicago dance marathon, 1930

25.

Vikki The Back Dougan, 1957. She was the inspiration for the cartoon femme fatale, Jessica Rabbit

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Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japan, October 12th, 1960