17 Historical Photos That Time Nearly Forgot
Nathan Johnson
Published
10/16/2021
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Deep in the depths of history's vaults, we found a veritable treasure trove of dusty old pics that looked like they hadn't been touched in ages. We keistered those bad boys outta there and also past customs, cleaned 'em up (YES, we did, you're welcome), and then put 'em up here.
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Ty Cobb sliding into home, 1920 -
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Woman cutting her birthday cake in Iran 1973, 5 years before the Islamic Revolution -
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Welsh coal miners having a round after their shift. c.1912 -
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Guns and knives associated with Lincoln’s assassination and stabbing of Major Rathbone, the President’s bodyguard, including the the bullet dug from Lincoln’s head. The boot belonged to Booth at the time of the assassination and other weapons were taken from members of a gang associated with Booth -
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Albert Einstein lecturing on the Theory of Relativity, 1922 -
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Women’s detachment of the Red Army, Russian Civil War, 1919 -
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Swimsuits being measured for decency; Venice Beach CA, 1929 -
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Father and son from the same German regiment read a letter from their respective wife and mother at the front, 1915 -
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Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, with her son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (right), and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (left). Seated on the left is Alexandra, Tsarina of Russia, holding her baby daughter Grand Duchess Olga. 1896 -
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Rosa Parks sits at the front of a bus following the end of racial segregation by the transit company, circa 1965 -
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Navajo riders on horseback, Canyon de Chelly. taken by Edward S. Curtis in 1904 -
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A school teacher lashing a boy student over a desk, Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1905. -
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Teenagers dressed for a high school dance in the 1920s. -
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A sixteen-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger at his first body-building competition. -
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A woman disguised as a war refugee is exposed as a Gestapo Informer. Dessau, Germany, 1945. -
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Gilbert’s Surgical Amphitheater, Medical Class and Staff, 1910 -
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Secret Service agents walk on both sides of President Theodore Roosevelt’s carriage during his inauguration on March 4, 1905
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