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33 Rare Photos From the Past 200 Years That Continue to Stun Us

by Erica Hatch Mar 26, 2023, 12:18 pm

33 Rare Photos From the Past 200 Years That Continue to Stun Us

History is a way for us to learn about our ancestors. It is a way for us to see how far our world has come or maybe how similar it really is. The below photos are rare photos of events that took place that not many people remember or even know about.

Camels walking near the burning Kuwaiti oil fields that had been blown up by retreating Iraqi troops, 1991.

33 Rare Photos From the Past 200 Years That Continue to Stun Us — Steve McCurry

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discuss the computer’s future in Steve Job’s home in Palo Alto, 1991.

33 Rare Photos From the Past 200 Years That Continue to Stun Us — Charles and Ray Eames

A British soldier is looking at Argentinean helmets after the Battle Of Goose Green. May, 1982

33 Rare Photos From the Past 200 Years That Continue to Stun Us — The Guardian

Following a jump worth a gold medal, pole vaulter Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz sends a message to Soviet supporters who had given him the raspberry, 1980

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Pelé taking a break on the field of Hungarian football club called MTK while filming “Escape to Victory”, 1980

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A movie assistant holding an umbrella over the actor’s head during the filming of the thriller Caligula, 1976

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Bill & Hillary Clinton in college, 1973

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One of the two Riace Bronzes discovered by an amateur scuba diver is brought out of the Ionian sea, August 1972

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The scene at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas while man is landing on the Moon, 1969

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Detectives who are in disguise in Brooklyn, 1969

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The opening concert of Woodstock, 1969

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Frank Sinatra stepping off of a helicopter with a drink in his hand, 1964

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The last prisoners leaving Alcatraz, 1963

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A rare photo of the Beatles looking back, 1962 and 1969

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The people of West Berlin show their children to their grandparents who live on the Eastern side, 1961

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An Iranian women before the Islamic Revolution, 1960

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A hockey match is interrupted in Sweden, 1959

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Fidel Castro plays baseball, 1959

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James Dean posing in a coffin of the local undertaker in his home town in the year of his car crash and ensuing death, January 1955

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The last commercial sailing ship, Pamir, to round Cape Horn, 1949

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Japanese guards bow before US prisoners of war being released from a Yokohama detention center following the capitulation of Japan, 1945

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Liberty Bridge in Budapest made temporarily usable after the siege, 1945

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To demonstrate the superiority of the Red Army, 57,000 German prisoners of war are herded through downtown Moscow, July 1944

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A Dutch women enters captivity with her German soldier husband, 1944

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Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942

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Drivers Education at Michigan Highland Park University, 1939

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This powerful picture shows the class divide pre-war Britain, 1937

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Class held in a train wagon, 1932

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A unique color photograph of two Parisian women, 1930

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Selfies, 1920.

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Iceberg that had red and black paint on it. They believe that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Photographed in 1912

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Gold diggers marching through Chilkoot pass, the only way towards Dawson City, 1898

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A beautiful photograph showing The Royal Navy on the way home from France with Queen Victoria on board, who had just visited Napoleon III, 1858

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Some of these photographs are disturbing yet eye-opening. They show different times of happiness, racism, despair, and a time in our history that will always be there.

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