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31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:52pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Photographs from the archives have a special value to them. They often allow us to peer directly into the past and gain some sense of how things really were in a time long before we were born. Some of them are so startling or fascinating that you can’t help but think to yourself "Is this actually real?" Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield, 1957. https://brightside.me/creativity-photography/28-rare-historical-photographs-that-will-take-your-breath-away-265660/ 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:53pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
A boy distributes newspapers bearing a headline about the sinking of the
Titanic, 1912. (Colorization by Dana Keller).
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:54pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Loading the first ever five-megabyte hard drive onto a PanAm plane, 1965 5 Likes
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:54pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
The Hindenburg disaster, 1937. (Colorization applied subsequently).
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:55pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
The first telephoto lens in the world, 1900.
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:56pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Young women carrying ice, 1918. (Colorization by Dana Keller). 1 Like 2 Shares
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:57pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
An opium den in Singapore, 1941.
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:58pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
An accident in Washington, 1921. (Colorization applied subsequently).
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 5:59pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
flight simulator for pilots, 1942 1 Like
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:00pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Newspaper sellers on a cigarette break, 1910. (Colorization applied subsequently).
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:01pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Workers of the Fiat company take part in a race on the roof of the first factory in Turin, Italy, 1923. 1 Like
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:02pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
A beggar runs after George V, 1920. 3 Likes 1 Share
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:03pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
A gas station in Washington, DC, 1924. (Colorization added subsequently) 1 Like
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:04pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923. (Colorization added subsequently). 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:05pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
A mobile swimming pool in New York, 1960.
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:05pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Steven Spielberg during the shooting of Indiana Jones , 1980. 2 Likes
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by DanseMacabre(m): 6:06pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
No pictures of our forefathers shackled in the hold of death-trap ships making the journey across the Atlantic with the newly-acquired status of slaves Dope pictures though, I gotta admit. Thumbs up, OP. 4 Likes |
Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:06pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Willard Scott as the original Ronald McDonald, 1963.
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:07pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
A polar explorer proffers a can of condensed milk to a polar bear, USSR, 1980s. 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:08pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Zanzibar, 1947. An exhausted nanny poses with her young charge, named Farrokh Bulsara. A quarter of a century later, he would adopt the pseudonym of Freddie Mercury. 1 Like
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:09pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
A 7,600-ton multi-story housing block is physically moved in order to extend an avenue in the Romanian city of Alba Julia, 1987.
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:09pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Claude Monet with his paintings, 1923. (Colorization by Dana Keller).
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:10pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
The Beatles perform for 18 people in a modest club in the town of Aldershot, December 1961. A year and a half later they would be superstars. 1 Like
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:10pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Marilyn Monroe poses for soldiers, 1954. (Colorization by Dana Keller) 1 Like
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New explorer 2 Likes 1 Share |
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RoyalBlak007: That is friggin dangerous man , one of the cubs is wrapped around the man's leg sef 2 Likes |
Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:16pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
The seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen, 1922. It had remained untouched for 3,245 years. 1 Like
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:18pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
Soldiers during the Second World War, Easter 1944. (Colorization applied subsequently). 1 Like
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by RoyalBlak007: 6:19pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
A canteen for Disney employees, 1961.
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by Nobody: 6:20pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
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Re: 31 Rare Historical Photographs That Will Take Your Breath Away by Nobody: 6:24pm On Nov 22, 2017 |
RoyalBlak007:wow! On The Roof? More Like A Race Lane 1 Like |
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