60 Incredibly Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

By | August 8, 2015

We love to gather up interesting photos from the past, most especially those rare ones that have caught up our attention.

The last collection was a successful one, all thanks to you. Hopefully you’ll also enjoy today's fascinating collection of rare historical photos.

1. Boxing held in Yankee stadium (1923).

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2. The evacuation of Saigon (1975), in which some 45 UH-1 Hueys and one CH-47 Chinook were pushed overboard to make room for others to land.

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3. The first passengers on the newly opened New York subway (1904).

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4. Ernest Hemingway having a hearty drink at a Havana bar (date unknown).

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5. Princeton students right after a Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight (1893).

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6. Policemen inspects a "lumber truck" that reeks of alcohol during prohibition (1926).

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7. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they’re assassinated, which led to the start of World War I (1914).

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8. A native American looking over the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada (1868).

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9. The oldest running car on the planet: the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et Trepardou Dos-à-Dos.

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10. A newly liberated French citizen lights Winston Churchill's cigar with enthusiasm (1944).

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11. A US soldier offering a hand to a woman leaving a cave during World War II.

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12. Queen Elizabeth during her World War 2 service.

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14. The last photo of the Titanic before sinking (1912).

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15. A pyramid of helmets from captured German soldiers displayed in New York (1918).

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16. Construction of Brasilia City. This would later become the capital of Brazil (1960).

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17. Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll. When asked about his stunt, the test pilot said: “just trying to sell airplanes.”

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18. Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein discussing quantum mechanics (1925).

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19. Fidel Castro and Malcolm X (1960).

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20. 106-year-old Armenian woman with and AK-47 protecting her home (1990).

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21. Star Wars set at lunchtime.

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22. A World War 1 submarine washed ashore on the beach in England.

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23. William Harley and Arthur Davidson (1914).

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24. A German communist being executed in Munich (1919).

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25. Muhammad Ali trying to talk sense into a suicidal man (1981).

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26. Mt. Rushmore National Memorial under construction (1939).

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27. Porsche 911s at the Stuttgart factory (1970)

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28. American soldiers discover Manet's painting hidden in the salt mines of Merker, Germany (1945).

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29. John Young and Charles Duke training for the Apollo 16 mission in the New Mexico desert.

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30. A rebel soldier tosses a grenade into a loyalist position in Burgos, Spain (1936).

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31. Anne Frank pokes her head out of her family's flat in Amsterdam (1942).

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32. Archaeologist Howard Carter examining the opened sarcophagus of King Tut.

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33. Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun - the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat (1942).

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34. Russian soldiers preparing for a gas attack against German positions (1916).

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35. Eyes of hate: a photo of Goebbels after finding out his official photographer is of Jewish descent.

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36. The first Wal-Mart store opened by Sam Walton in 1962. It was called "Walton's Five and Dime" then.

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37. The Boeing B-29 bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima.

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38. Albert Einstein’s work desk. Picture taken the day after his death.

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39. B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth, Texas (1944).

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40. The Cologne cathedral stand erect amidst the ruins (1944).

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41. A very rare photo of a young Winston Churchill (1895).

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42. The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (1937).

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43. Pre-Taliban days in Afghanistan when women are still allowed professional careers, university education, etc…

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44. Gadget, the very first atomic bomb.

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45. The night they ended Prohibition (December 5, 1933).

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46. German prisoners marching to Moscow after they were defeated in Belarus (1944).

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47. Testing a bulletproof vest (1923).

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48. Gas masks for babies being tested at an English hospital (1940).

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49. Control room of the UB-110 German submarine (1918).

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50. A V-1 flying bomb “buzzbomb” has its eyes over London (1945).

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51. Buzz Aldrin's selfie in space (1966).

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52. Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, playing against and defeating several chess masters simultaneously in France (1920).

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53. USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen, China (1945).

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54. An assassin photographed while attacking socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japan (1960).

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55. A woman survivor of the Nagasaki bombing (1945).

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56. The first Ford car factory in the US (1926).

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57. Allied forces mocking Hitler (1945).

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58. A US soldier replacing "Adolf-Hitler-Str." sign with "Roosevelt Blvd" in Berlin, Germany (1945).

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59. The 2,800 years old kiss.

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60. Nine Kings in one photo (1910).

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60. Mark Twain visits Nikolai Tesla's lab (1894).

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