Rare Historical Photos

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Elvis in the Army.

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Albert Einstein looking fabulous.

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The first McDonalds.

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The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.

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Hitler in Paris.

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Google begins.

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The construction of Disneyland.

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A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.

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The 1912 World Series.

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Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

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British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.

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A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

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Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

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The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.

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The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.

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A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941

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A view of Boston in 1860 taken from a hot air balloon.

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Mount Rushmore as it appeared in its more natural state.

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Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Dukes family photo left behind on the moon in 1972.

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Titanic leaves port in 1912.

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A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.

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Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909

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Child laborers in 1880.

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Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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German air raid on Moscow in 1941.

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Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil.

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Che Guevara.

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Pope Pio XII meets with Hitler.

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Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.

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California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.

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Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.

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Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son

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The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!

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The Microsoft staff in 1978.

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A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,an event that helped spark World War I.

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38.

The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975

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New York's Times Square in 1911.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.

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Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.

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Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death.

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Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908.

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Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

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John F. Kennedy has a tea party with his daughter, Caroline.

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Ferdinand Porsche yes, THAT Porsche showcasing the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935.

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The crew of Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing in 1966.Sadly, all three astronauts were killed on the launch pad in a fire.

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Eleven year-old Adolf Hitler.

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A crash on board an aircraft carrier sometime during World War II.

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Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.

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This is believed to be the last picture taken of Titanic before her sinking.

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General Custer and his men during the American Civil War.

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Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, petting his dog on an airfield.

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Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.

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Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888.

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Charles Godefroy flies his biplane through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on August 7th, 1919.

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The ENIAC, the first computer ever built.

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The first Wal-Mart.

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Hitler's bunker.

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The only photograph of a living Quagga from 1870. This species is now extinct

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An actual Titanic boarding pass.

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