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31 Captivating Historical Images

Fascinating photos from the past.

By Peter Pizagalli

Published 10 years ago

Fascinating photos from the past.

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1
Halftime at the very first Super Bowl. Len Dawson, Kansas City Chiefs QB, 1967.

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2
A Ringling Brothers Circus elephant walks out of a train car as young children watch in the Bronx railroad yard in New York City, April 1, 1963.

3
A woman disguised as a war refugee is exposed as a Gestapo Informer. Dessau, Germany, 1945.
4
Zeppelin over The Pyramids, 1931.

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5
Los Angeles 1960's.
6
Los Angeles 1960's.
7
Cheyenne woman, Oklahoma, 1890-1904.

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8
Los Angeles 1960's.
9
Chinese prisoners are used as live targets in a bayonet drill by their Japanese captors, during the Nanking Massacre, November 7, 1938.
10
Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961.

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11
Equipment carried by a parachutist radio operator.
12
A young Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys Oktoberfest with a friend in 1967, Munich, West Germany.
13
A young girl who had just escaped from East Germany.

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14
Gilbert's Surgical Amphitheater, Medical Class and Staff, 1910.
15
Jackie Kennedy kisses the casket of JFK in the Capitol rotunda. Nov. 24, 1963.
16
The 7.Panzer-Division in France, 1940.

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17
Ancient Roman ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbeck, Lebanon, 1870-1885.
18
Hitler asking a frostbitten and snow ravaged soldier not to salute him, but to instead rest and recover. (Year unknown)
19
Secret Service agents walk on both sides of President Theodore Roosevelt's carriage during his inauguration on March 4, 1905.

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20
Mahatma Gandhi's worldly possessions, 1948.
21
1916 French soldier walking in a trench in devastated terrain of the Somme.
22
Navajo medicine man, Southwest U.S. 1904.

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23
Medical students with cadavers, date unknown.
24
WWII B-17 bomber under construction, Seattle Washington, Dec 1942.
25
Shipwrecked survivors of HMAS Armidale clinging to a raft and waving at a Catalina flying boat. Unable to land on violent waters, the survivors were not seen again after this photograph was taken 1942.

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26
The 140-kiloton Chagan nuclear test, Soviet Union, 1965.
27
Sharon Tate a few years before her 1969 murder by the Manson family.
28
Los Angeles 1960's.

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29
The Hindenburg above New York City, May 6, 1937.
30
Paula Hitler, younger sister of Adolf, arrested and interrogated by US intelligence officers. Germany, July 12, 1945.
31
This is how it was done in Montana 1901.

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32
Training activist not to react to provocation, Civil strike, Core group, Virginia, 1960 by Eve Arnold.
33
Ty Cobb sliding into home, 1920.

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