18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Some old photos show such rare phenomena that you can look at them for hours. And behind each such frame from the past are the lives and stories of thousands of unknown ancestors. 

Our next historical selection of archival photos, with the help of which it is interesting to learn new things about the world. 

Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov in the ceremonial uniforms of "their" sponsored regiments, 1910.

Graduation party, 1895.

Soldiers of the countries of the Caucasus region, the beginning of the XX century.

Geisha, Japan, 1920s.

Surfers, 1922.

James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, with his wife in 1928.

King George VI of Great Britain, 1938.

Fawzia Fouad, Princess of Egypt and Queen of Iran, 1939.

The death of the ocean transatlantic liner "Normandy" on February 9, 1942 at Pier No. 88 in New York.

Linda Christian is a Mexican actress and the first Bond girl, born in 1945.

A boy watches TV for the first time through a shop window, 1948.

An Inuit girl with a husky puppy, 1949.

Brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, the founders of Adidas and Puma, respectively.

An Iranian woman, 1960.

Bikers, the 1960s.

Players of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks hockey clubs are looking for a contact lens that Jack Evans lost during a match, 1962.

16-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger at his first bodybuilding competition, 1963.

The opening ceremony of the XXII Summer Olympic Games, Moscow, 1980.