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Usually, when you read a history article or story, it's mostly just dry facts and your imagination. But an amazing photo gives something a bit different. It shows you how it all actually looked, letting you understand the historical moment more intimately. Whether it would be a historical landmark, a famous person or random old pictures of the past - they all have fascinating stories behind them, and we're just about to show you.
The brave photojournalists that took these interesting pictures saw the morbidity of wars, documented the creation of an atomic bomb and shot stills of most magnificent constructions being built. You might not be aware that the city of Tel-Aviv used to be just plain dunes or how someone looks after literally falling from space. Keep on scrolling to take a look at Bored Panda's list of rare historical photos that might shine a new light on how you saw these crucial moments.
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#1
Dorothy Counts - The First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States - Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
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#2
Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
#3
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
#4
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
#5
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
#6
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
#7
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
#8
Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
#9
Job Hunting In 1930's
#10
First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967
#11
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
#12
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
#13
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
#14
The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884
#15
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
#16
Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
Hayley Lightcap 8 years ago
That's cool, very dramatic. I think he lost the poker game though.
#17
Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
Katie O'Brien 8 years ago
They look both relaxed and unsure. This is such a simple, yet interesting glimpse into the past.
#18
7-Foot Bolaji Badejo, A Nigerian Design Student And One-time Actor, Wearing His Costume From The Now Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Alien, 1978
#19
The Most Beautiful Suicide - Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
#20
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967
Air Cachero 8 years ago
Technically, it's cosmonaut because he's from Russia. Astronaut is for Americans
#21
Hats In New York, 1930
Katie O'Brien 8 years ago
Men always wore a hat back then. My grandmother has often commented on this and how it's some different than today.
#22
A German Child Meets Her Father, A WWII Soldier, For The First Time Since She Was 1 Year Old, 1956
Karolis Stašys 8 years ago
Explanation - the soldier was held a prisoner in Siberia concentration camp after being captured by the soviets.
#23
Wounded Combat Dog During Action On The Orote Peninsula, 1944
#24
Frida Kahlo Dressed As A Boy, 1924
#25
A Mother Shows A Picture Of Her Son To A Returning Prisoner Of War, 1947
#26
Scottish Piper In A Kilt On The Battlefield During World War One
Stéphanie Hirigaray 8 years ago
The bagpipe is the only musical instrument deemed a weapon of war because it inspired its troops to battle and instilled terror into the enemy
#27
Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Is Returned To The Louvre After WWII
Sarah Garland 8 years ago
It's commendable when people risk themselves to save art and history during war times, and then return it.
#28
These Are Titanic Survivors Boarding The Carpathia In 1912
#29
Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1932
#30
A Rare Shot Of A Young Winston Churchill, 1895
#31
The First Bananas In Norway, 1905
#32
Robert Williams Wood, Max Planck And Albert Einstein In The Front Row Of A Session Of The Physical Society In Berlin On July 28, 1931
#33
About 100 People Participate In A Lottery To Divide A 12 Acre Plot Of Sand Dunes, That Would Later Become The City Of Tel Aviv, 1909
#34
Carving Eye On Mount Rushmore, 1930s.
#35
Tsar Nicholas II Allows His Daughter, The Grand Duchess Anastasia, To Smoke
#36
Marilyn Monroe Filming Her Iconic Scene In The Seven Year Itch. This Shot Was Taken In New York In Front Of A Large Crowd Of Bystanders And Press To Create Hype, 1954
Teodor Graur 8 years ago
Poor Marilyn... Produs al mass-media şi copil al Hollywood-ului. Trist.
#37
Bob Dylan With Mick Jagger And Keith Richards At Jaggers 29th Birthday Party, July 1972
LeJoy Rothe 8 years ago
These jokers are almost my dad's age and still rock so hard! I love these guys!
#38
The Last Public Execution By Guillotine, 1939
#39
Hungarian Jews Being Selected By Nazis To Be Sent To The Gas Chamber At Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Auschwitz Album May-June 1944
#40
Columns Of Hoover Dam Being Filled With Concrete, February 1934 (Looking Upstream From The Nevada Rim)
#41
US Coast Guard Cutter Spencer Destroys The Nazi Submarine U-175, April 17, 1943
#42
Vladimir Lenin's Last Photo. He Had Had Three Strokes At This Point And Was Completely Mute, 1923
#43
Eduard Bloch, The Jewish Physician Of The Hitler Family In His Office C. 1938. Bloch Was Later Called A ‘Noble Jew’ By Hitler And Stood Under His Personal Protection
#44
Soviet Troops Scrawled Graffiti In The Reichstag After They Took Berlin In 1945
#45
A Jewish Woman Who Is Concealing Her Face Sits On A Park Bench Marked "Only For Jews", Austria, 1938
#46
The Gadget, The First Atomic Bomb, 1945
LeJoy Rothe 8 years ago
I can't get over how casually he sits next tobit. He might as well be eating a sandwich. Just because we have the ability to make suck weapons of mass destruction, doesn't mean we should. :-(
#47
Jennie Macgregor, Arrested By Minneapolis Police On April 10, 1924 For Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages From Life-Preserver Flasks
#48
Crew Of The Japanese Carrier Zuikaku Give One Final Banzai Cheer Before The Ship Sinks, 1944
#49
Boxing Match Aboard The U.S.S. New York, July 3, 1899
#50
Finalizing The Fat Man Atomic Bomb, Which Was Dropped On Nagasaki On August 9, 1945. On Its Nose It Had Stenciled The Acronym “Jancfu”- Joint Army-Navy-Civilian F*** Up
#51
A Young Hitler Cheers The Start Of World War One, 1914
Auburn Skies 8 years ago
i dont think thats him. his iconic mustach was trimmed that way because he still wanted facial hair, but also needed it to fit under a gas mask
#52
The Eiffel Tower During The Nazi Occupation, 1940
#53
An American Evacuee Punches A South Vietnamese Man For A Place On The Last Chopper Out Of The US Embassy During The Evacuation Of Saigon In 1975
#54
A Group Of Men Posing In Front Of Lynch’s Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852
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