35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

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Sometimes a single photo can tell a lot more than all those dry paragraphs of historical references. These pictures will tell you better than books and lectures about those significant people or events about which you would like to know more. The footage, once made with only one purpose - to document the present, now helps us to witness the past.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments
35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Harold Whittles hears for the first time, 1974.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Dorothy Kants became one of the first African-American students at a school for whites, 1957. The photo shows students at Charlotte's Harry Harding High School teasing Dorothy.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The first morning in Sweden after the change of left-hand traffic to right-hand traffic, 1967.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who live on the east side, 1961.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Acrobats train on the roof of the Empire State Building, 1934.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

An Austrian boy enjoys a new pair of shoes, World War II.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

A striptease club dancer arrested in Florida shows her underwear to a judge to prove that her panties sufficiently cover her private parts and she was not completely naked.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The Ace of spades hand belongs to mafia boss Joe Masseria, who was killed in a Brooklyn restaurant in 1931.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Same-sex couple, Paris, 1932.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

"The most beautiful suicide" — 23-year-old Evelyn McHale, after parting with her fiance, jumped off the Empire State Building. The girl fell from a height of 344 meters on the roof of a limousine parked at the curb. 1947.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Bolaji Badejo is a 2.18 meter tall Nigerian student in an Alien costume, 1978. For Bolaji, this role was the first and last.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov after the accident of the descent vehicle of the first Soviet manned spacecraft, 1967.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

A German child meets his father, a soldier of the Second World War, whom he last saw at the age of one year, 1956.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Frida Kahlo in men's clothing, 1924.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Orote Peninsula, 1944 — a wounded dog is given medical care.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

A woman shows a photo of her son to returned prisoners of war, 1947.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

A Scottish piper in a kilt on the battlefield, the First World War.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The Mona Lisa is being returned to the Louvre after World War II.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The surviving passengers of the Titanic disembark on board the Carpathia, 1912.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The first bananas in Norway, 1905.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Physicist Robert Williams Wood, the founder of quantum physics Max Planck and Albert Einstein sit in the front row at the meeting of the Berlin Physical Society, 1931.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

A man cuts out the eye of one of the sculptures, Mount Rushmore, 1930s.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Filming of the legendary scene of the film with Marilyn Monroe "The Itch of the seventh year", 1954.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Bob Dylan and Keith Richards at Mick Jagger's 29th birthday party, 1972.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The last public execution on the guillotine, France, 1939.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Inscriptions of Soviet soldiers inside the Reichstag, 1945.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The Nazis select Hungarian Jews for Auschwitz, 1944.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The last photo of Vladimir Lenin — he had already suffered three strokes and could not speak, 1923.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Eduard Bloch, a Jew and personal physician of Hitler's family until 1907, was under his special protection. Hitler himself called Bloch a "noble Jew."

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Jenny McGregor arrested for distributing alcoholic beverages, Minneapolis, 1924.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

The crew of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Zuikaku" salutes the lowered flag before the death of the ship, 1944.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

An American slaps a Vietnamese man in the face in a fight for a seat in the last helicopter that flies away from the US Embassy during the evacuation in Saigon, 1975.

35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments

Young Hitler welcomes the news of the outbreak of the First World War, 1914.

     

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