These Rare Historical Photos Show The Past As You’ve Never Seen Before
Amazing photos from the past
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A scene from the 1980 Atari’s National Space Invaders Championship.
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This science fair project, entitled “The Effects of LSD on Fish,” was submitted by a 10th grade California student in 1972. -
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Children enjoying the water in the streets in New York City, 1954.
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The crowded — and extraordinarily well-dressed streets of London in the 1900s. -
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The first cable car crossing over Niagara Falls in 1916. -
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Chevy Chase High School’s Home Economics class, photographed sometime in 1935. -
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Gilbert Kerr, a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, serenading an Emperor penguin in 1904. -
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Volunteer fire fighters in 1870s Istanbul. -
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Fidel Castro holds up a newspaper with a story about a plot to kill him, which happened in 1959. -
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A vintage Coca-Cola magazine advertisement from 1960. -
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Opening day at Disneyland, 1955. -
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Damage from a wind storm in Times Square, 1912. -
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A 1936 BMW Schneekrad snow machine parked on the street. -
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Rosie Ruiz, the first woman to cross the Boston Marathon finish line. Unfortunately, she cheated: Ruiz took the train for part of the race. -
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A cool old Toyota Corolla advertisement. -
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A Japanese woman carries her son on her back as she marks her ballot. This was in the first free election in 1946 Tokyo. -
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Jimi Hendrix in his kitchen at 34 Montagu Square, London, 1967. -
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An American B17 drops food over Schiphol Airport during operation Chow Hound in 1945 -
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The Chalk Games in New York City, taken in 1950. -
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During World War II, British troops are pictured handling mines and booby trap devices using a blind screen. -
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The front of Chicago’s Navy Pier, back in 1965 when it was the University of Illinois. -
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Apollo 11 mission officials celebrate the spacecraft’s successful launch on July 16, 1969. -
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The Tower of the Sun, created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto, shown here in 1970. -
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The first known photograph of someone giving the finger — can you spot him? -
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The exact moment five year old Harold Whittles hears for the very first time after doctors place an aid in his left ear. -
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Princess Lee Radziwill and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, photographed in Italy in1962. -
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Two waiters serve steel workers lunch on a girder above the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1930s NYC. -
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Women in France cultivating fields during World War I. -
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The title of this photo is “Wishram woman in festive bridal raiment”, by Edward S. Curtis. -
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A Turkish building his new home from the ruins of Aleshir Turkey in 1923. 
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A domestic worker cleans the house using the first domestic vacuum cleaner. It was released in 1906
