35 Fascinating Photos Collected From History
Nathan Johnson
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04/17/2020
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Interesting pics from back in time to take you on a ride.
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A police officer judges an ankle competition in London (1930) -
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A professional “rat catcher” showing off his kill. Rat catchers would scour the sewers of Europe and receive money for each rat they killed (1904) -
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Women painting their legs to make it appear that they were wearing stockings (1942) -
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The day Sweden switched which side of the road they drive on (1967) -
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Members of the Seattle Tubing Society relax on a warm afternoon (1953) -
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A maintenance crew loads 5 megabytes of memory into a Pan am Aircraft (1956) -
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A man testing a prototype football helmet (1912) -
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Batman on elephant (1967) -
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Nazis singing outside of Jewish art shops to encourage Germans to boycott the shops (1933) -
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“People Scooper” for cars (1920s) -
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A “Punt Gun” which was used to hunt waterfowl – it was banned for being too effective (1800s) -
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A brewery in England delivering kegs of beer on Spitfires to troops fighting in Normandy June 1944 -
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. War orphaned Vietnamese babies are flown to LAX (April 12, 1975) -
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Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to the MGM Lion (1957) -
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Exercise machine designed to “roll the fat” out of legs (1936) -
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Salvador Dali walking his pet anteater (1969) -
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Women box on a rooftop (1938) -
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Women in “wooden bathing suits” designed to make you more buoyant (1929) -
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An alien mugshot, part of a 1958 hoax in Bad Axe, Michigan -
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A Berlin boy selling lemonade with a portable lemonade dispenser (1931) -
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United States Border Patrol trying to drag a fugitive across the US border in order to keep him from escaping to Mexico (1920) -
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An overhead view of New York showing that everyone wore a hat (1939) -
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Japanese women cover their faces in shame in a Tokyo courtroom. -
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The Dynasphere was a monowheel electric vehicle which could go up to 25 miles per hour (1932) -
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Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank (1950) -
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A German soldier firing a gun from the back of his horse (1939) -
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A woman waits for the hoops of her crinoline to be completed by a London dress shop (1860) -
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Pedal skates (1910) -
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Kids playing with stacks of German money (1922) -
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Portable TV Concept (1967) -
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An “icebox” facial beauty treatment (1966) -
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Participants of a “Miss Lovely Eyes” contest held in Florida (1930) -
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An advertisement for an anti-malaria drug (1941) -
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Belgian troops stand with their dog drawn cannons on their way to the Western Front (1914) -
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World War I “Sound Finders” used to detect which direction enemy planes were approaching (c. 1914 – 1918)
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