RARE PICTURES

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These are some amazing old photos worth taking some time to look at.  I am not sure whose collection they came from but some date back to the mid 1800's.

VERY RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS

Betty White at home with her dog in 1952

An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint.  It is believed that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic.

Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961.

The rather luxurious seating area of the submarine, The Protector, in 1902.

Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890.

The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior" explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944.

The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912.

Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie "Schindler's List", on the balcony of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp, Poland. 1943-44.

Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1966.

1945 - German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch footage shot at a German concentration camp.

June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish sniper/sharpshooter, dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs.

Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair.

The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935.

Children for sale in Chicago, 1948.  Some parents sold their children due to poverty.

Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963.  His killer was finally convicted in 1994.

Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864.

The mugshot of Tokyo Rose, 1946.

A rescue boat comes alongside the crippled USS West Virginia shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972.

Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912.

Wielu just after German Luftwaffe bombing the 1st of September 1939. Not only did this bombing provide a spark for World War II, but it is generally believed to be the first terrorist bombing in history.

A burial at sea on board the USS Lexington in 1944.

Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland's opening day in 1955.

A lion rides in the sidecar during a performance of The Wall of Death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929.

Future presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush with Governor George Wallace at a BBQ in 1983.

Dr. Werhner von Braun and Walt Disney in 1954.

The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in 1942.

The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime camouflage in 1915.

Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II two years before their assassination in 1916.

Children rush into a candy store following the end of "sweets rationing" in 1953.

Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's.

Stephen Hawking marries Jane Wilde in 1965.

Albert Einstein brings sexy back in 1932.

What is thought to be the oldest known war photograph: New Hampshire volunteers depart for the Mexican War in 1846.

Coney Island in 1905.

George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966.

Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the 1970's.

Six year-old Arthur Conan-Doyle in 1865.

Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934.

Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939.

Harry Houdini exposes "spirit trickery" in 1925.

OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984.  Nichole Brown can be seen on the left.

A permanent stable cavity caused by the detonation on an underground nuclear test in 1961.

Vladimir Putin and his childhood friends in 1969.  None of them have been seen since!

Amelia Earhart receives what proved to be her last haircut in 1937.

The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar.  Circa 1930.

Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941.  This is where the Pentagon stands today.

 

 

RARE PICTURES

 RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS

And descriptions as we wonder what it was like

to be there and surprises us with something

we have never seen.
Some well over 100 years

A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897

A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941.

The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933 - the species is now extinct. The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940

Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945 A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868 The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906

Hitler in Paris Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001, await orders. Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial. California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.  Thousands of tree rings in these ancient trees - each over 1000+ years old or even much older...such a shame...irreplaceable giants. National park treasures all gone but a few – what kind of men would do such a thing for over 100 years - destroy something they cannot ever fix or replace for 2000 years? It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1200–1800 years or more. An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood forest has been cut. In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres...down to 8,100 acres by 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged. The Beatles in 1957 The 1912 World Series Red Sox vs NY Giants Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975 -  a future US President Elvis in the Army The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912 Child laborers in 1880 New York's Times Square in 1911 Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907 Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909. Fourteen-year-old Osama bin Laden - he's second from the right. Bell bottom pants - pink car - expensive shops, nice threads, About 24 people out smiling - looking hip for the day. And not one woman has her face or head covered. Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884 Thanks for looking. Pass it on to someone who enjoys a bit of history.