These 35 Rarely Seen Photos From The Past Will Blow Your Mind, Especially #15
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August 27, 2015History is awesome. Here’s another rare collection of photos from history that many of you may find interesting.
Enjoy!
1. A 7600-ton apartment building being moved to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987
2. Black officer protecting a KKK member from protesters, 1983
3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during his younger years, 1986
4. Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. The earliest born individual ever photographed.
5. Transporting 'The Apple', the first Indian satellite, 1981
6. The glasses John Lennon wore when he was killed, 1980
7. Steven Spielberg doing the first Indiana Jones movie, 1980
8. Due to strong crosswinds, a landing plane crashes over a truck parked near the runway, 1976
9. Highway picnic during the Oil Crisis, 1973
10. A foreskin away from death. A Pakistani soldier during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence inspects whether the man is circumcised or not (Hindus are not)
11. A stripper visits the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, 1970s
12. Man working at an analog computer, 1968
13. Soviet soldier chasing a young man who had stoned a tank, The Prague Spring of 1968
14. Early morning train, Japan, 1964
15. Pilot George Aird – fly testing an English Electric Lightning F1
16. The Beatles play for just 18 people in the Aldershot club, December 1961. A year and a half later, they became superstars.
17. Canteen for Disney workers, 1961
18. The East Bay Dragons, the first black bikers’ club, Oakland, California, 1960s
19. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fishing, 1960
20. A swimmobile in New York City, 1960
21. Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer in Beverly Hills, CA, 1958
22. Charlton Heston as Moses in “The Ten Commandments,” at a drive-in theater in Utah, 1958
23. Uploading the first 5MB hard disk to a PanAm plane, 1956
24. Coca Cola gets introduced in France, 1950
25. A flight simulator, 1942
26. An opium room in Singapore, 1941
27. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, 1928
28. Filming of the MGM Lion screen credits, marking the beginning of the Hollywood era, 1928
29. Factory workers race on the test roof track of the Fiat Factory in Turin, Italy, 1923
30. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb, which has been untouched for 3,245 years, 1922
31. A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach, 1920
32. The first international Wimbledon match, 1883
33. Princeton students, the aftermath of a snowball fight, 1893
34. Interior of a London Pub, 1898
35. Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896
H/T Atchuup