20 Rare Historic Photos You Probably Haven't Yet Seen
From famous landmarks being built to tragic events during the wars, these photos have cemented key moments in time that you now get to witness too.
We've all seen the famous pictures of Neil Armstrong bouncing on the Moon or a peaceful protester blocking tanks in Tiananmen square. These and many more powerful photos captured not only the image but the whole story perfectly. And apparently, there are more of those incredible shots which, for some reason, weren't that widespread.
Thankfully, the guys at Bored Panda have compiled a list of these rare historic shots. From famous landmarks being built to tragic events during the wars, these photos have cemented key moments in time that you now get to witness.
(h/t: boredpanda)
#1 Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
Image source: unknown.
#2 Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
Image source: Gerald Waller
#3 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
Image source: Don Sturkey
#4 Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
Image source: unknown.
#5 Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
Image source: unknown.
#6 The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
Image source: unknown.
#7 Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
Image source: Jack Bradley
#8 A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
Image source: wikimedia
#9 Job Hunting In 1930's
Image source: rarehistoricalphotos
#10 First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967
Image source: Jan Collsiöö
#11 German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
Image source: rarehistoricalphotos
#12 Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
Image source: rarehistoricalphotos
#13 Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
Image source: Bettmann / Corbis archives
#14 An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
Image source: unknown.
#15 Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
Image source: unknown.
#16 The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884
Image source: unknown.
#17 Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
Image source: Georges Brassai
#18 The Most Beautiful Suicide - Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
Image source: Robert C. Wiles
#19 7-Foot Bolaji Badejo, A Nigerian Design Student, And One-time Actor, Wearing His Costume From The Now Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Alien, 1978
Image source: unknown.
#20 The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967
Image source: RIA Novosti/Photo Researchers Inc.
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