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

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.

Paris, 1951

"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

Ru Paul and Nirvana at the MTV Music Awards, 1993

Audrey Hepburn

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

Mom and daughter in New York, 1970

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

Sophia Loren pictured by Ormond Gigli, circa 1955

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

Meryl Streep at school

Protest against the ban on abortions

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

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

Slash as a child

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

Capri, Italy, 1949

Heath Ledger as a child

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

Amy Winehouse for the Sunday Telegraph magazine, 2004

Stephanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga), 1998

Susan Sarandon in Cannes, 1978

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

Photo of Salma Hayek for casting, circa 1995

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

Freddie Mercury at Nagoya Castle, Japan, 1975

Sharon Tate, photographer Shakrokh Khatami, 1968

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

How schoolchildren dressed in 1969

Leonardo DiCaprio with his parents in 1976

Brittany Murphy, 1998

David Bowie, photo by Steve Shapiro, 1975

South Korea, 1990s

Teenagers at an Elvis concert in Philadelphia, 1957

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

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

People rollerblading on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, 1979

Debra Jo Fondren, 1979

Jessica Lang in New York, 1975

St. Petersburg, Florida, 1973

Santa Monica, California, 1955. Photo by Elliott Erwitt

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

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

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

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

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