Old photos you rarely see

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We study the past in order to understand the present. And photos can help us a lot. However, even though textbooks and other sources use images to illustrate the story they are talking about, we often focus on the written content instead.

12 PHOTOS

Old photos you rarely see

1. Mother and daughter in New York, 1970.

Old photos you rarely see

2. Paris, 1951

Old photos you rarely see

3. "I showed Freddie a picture of Marlene Dietrich from the Shanghai Express and he liked it" - Mick Rock (Freddie Mercury and Queen, photographed by Mick Rock, London, 1974).

Old photos you rarely see

4. RuPaul and Nirvana backstage at the MTV Music Awards, 1993.

Old photos you rarely see

5. Protest.

Old photos you rarely see

6. Audrey Hepburn and her dog. Photo by Sid Avery, 1957.

Old photos you rarely see

7. Sophia Loren photographed by Ormond Gigli, circa 1955.

Old photos you rarely see

8. Queen on the set of a music video, 1984.

Old photos you rarely see

9. School photos of Meryl Streep.

Old photos you rarely see

10. A crow lights a Tippi Hedren cigarette on the set of The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock), 1963.

Old photos you rarely see

11. Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier returning from the war, 1945.

Old photos you rarely see

12. Young Slash.

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