Once You See These Rare Historical Photos, You’ll Never Forget Them
Like some of you, I’m also a rabid history buff, specializing in collecting the most interesting rare historic photos. I only curate the rare ones that have a significant impact on the history of the world. Find out below some of the most fascinating rare historical photos ever captured on camera. Thanks to these great images, we now have before us a rare window to some of the most interesting moments of our world history.
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A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897
An airman being captured by Vietnamese in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. The airman is John McCain.
Samurai warriors taken between 1860 and 1880
A shell-shocked reindeer looks on as war planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941.
Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios
Che Guevara enjoying a drink
The Microsoft staff in 1978
The last known Tasmanian Tiger (now extinct) photographed in 1933
German air raid on Moscow in 1941
Winston Churchill out for a swim
The London sky after a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940
Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.
Google begins, 1999
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945
The only photograph of a living Quagga (now extinct) from 1870
Hitler’s bunker
A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944
The original Ronald McDonald played by Willard Scott
The first photo taken from space in 1946
British SAS back from a 3-month patrol of North Africa in 1943
Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961
The first McDonalds
Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial
George S. Patton’s dog mourning his master on the day of his death
California lumberjacks working on Redwoods
Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961
Bread and soup during the Great Depression
The 1912 World Series
The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912
Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil
Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907
Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren in 1909
The construction of Disneyland
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship
14-year-old Osama bin Laden (2nd from the right)
Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884
Albert Einstein’s office photographed on the day of his death
A liberated Jew holds a Nazi guard at gunpoint
Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908
Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888
Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989
Titanic leaves port in 1912
Adolf Hitler’s pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf’s Lair in 1944
ENIAC, the first computer ever built
Brighton Swimming Club in 1863
Ferdinand Porsche (yeah, that Porsche) showing a model of the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935
The unbroken seal on King Tut’s tomb
Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left this family photo behind on the moon in 1972
The crew of Apollo 1 practicing their water landing in 1966. Unfortunately, all of them were killed on the launch pad in a fire.
An aircraft crash on board during World War II
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA), and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) talking together
