45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

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To better understand the present, we often turn to the past, and photographs help us a lot with this. After all, many events and fleeting moments would have been forgotten forever if someone hadn't snapped the camera in time. The popular photoblog "Vintage every Day" publishes rare shots from the past: from portraits of celebrities in their youth to street shots of fashionistas of a bygone era.

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks
45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Paris, 1951

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

"I showed Freddie a photo of Marlene Dietrich from the Shanghai Express, and he liked her," — photographer Mick Rock Freddie Mercury and Queen, photo by Mick Rock, London, 1974

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Ru Paul and Nirvana at the MTV Music Awards, 1993

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Audrey Hepburn

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell on the set of the movie "Gentlemen prefer blondes", 1953

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Mom and daughter in New York, 1970

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Audrey Hepburn with her dog named Mr. Celebrity, photo by Sid Avery, 1957

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Sophia Loren pictured by Ormond Gigli, circa 1955

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Queen on the set of the video "I Want To Break Free", 1984

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Meryl Streep at school

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Protest against the ban on abortions

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

A crow gives a light to Tippi Hedren on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, 1963.

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier who returns home after World War II, 1945

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Slash as a child

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Hedy Lamarr in Robert Z. Leonard's "The Siegfield Girls", 1941

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Capri, Italy, 1949

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Heath Ledger as a child

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Johnny Depp and Kate Moss in the Annie Leibovitz photo shoot, 1994

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Amy Winehouse for the Sunday Telegraph magazine, 2004

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Stephanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga), 1998

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Susan Sarandon in Cannes, 1978

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Mott Haven, New York, 1979. Photo by David Gonzalez

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Photo of Salma Hayek for casting, circa 1995

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Benicio Del Toro and Parker Posey, photo by Mark Seliger, 1995

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Freddie Mercury at Nagoya Castle, Japan, 1975

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Sharon Tate, photographer Shakrokh Khatami, 1968

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Cher, Elton John and Diana Ross at the Rock Music Awards, 1975

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

How schoolchildren dressed in 1969

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Leonardo DiCaprio with his parents in 1976

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Brittany Murphy, 1998

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

David Bowie, photo by Steve Shapiro, 1975

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

South Korea, 1990s

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Teenagers at an Elvis concert in Philadelphia, 1957

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Keith Richards, Tina Turner and David Bowie at the Ritz Hotel in New York, photo by Bob Gruen, 1983

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Women sit on a fire escape in Harlem, New York, 1978

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

People rollerblading on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, 1979

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Debra Jo Fondren, 1979

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Jessica Lang in New York, 1975

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

St. Petersburg, Florida, 1973

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Santa Monica, California, 1955. Photo by Elliott Erwitt

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

A kiss at the Hotel De Ville. Photo by Robert Doisneau, 1950

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Jayne Mansfield poses with the winner of the Miss Hollywood 1957 pageant

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Claudia Schiffer and Chrissy Turlington at the Versace party in Paris, 1994

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

Michelle Pfeiffer as Elvira Hancock in Scarface, 1983, directed by Brian De Palma

45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks

"Men Don't Protect You Anymore", Nirvana in Manhattan, 1993

     

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