Here are 29 incredibly rare historical photographs that show some important events in our recent history.
1. Moving a 7600 ton apartment block in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987.
2. A black police officer protects a member of the KKK from protesters in 1983.
3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev when he was a young man in 1986.
4. This is Hannah Stilley. Born in 1746 and photographed in 1840 she is thought to be the earliest born individual ever captured on film.
5. How ‘The Apple’ was transported. India’s first satellite in 1981.
6. Steven Spielberg visualising a scene from the first Indiana Jones movie in 1980.
7. A plane caught in a crosswind crashes into a truck whilst trying to land in 1976.
8. People having a picnic on the highway during the oil crisis of 1973.
9. A stripper on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1970.
10. A man works on an analog computer in 1968.
11. During the Prague spring in 1968 a soviet soldier chases a young man who had just thrown stones at a tank.
12. Test pilot George Arid ejects from an English Electric Lightning F1.
13. The Beatles play to a small club with about 18 people dancing in 1961. Little over a year later they became world famous.
14. Disney World staff canteen in 1961.
15. The East Bay Dragons – the first black bikers club. Oakland, California, 1960s.
16. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing in 1960.
17. A Swimmobile drives through New York City in 1960.
18. Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer ‘Ip’ in Beverley Hills, 1958.
19. A drive-in theatre in Utah shows “The Ten Commandments” starring Charlton Heston in 1958.
20. The worlds first 5MB hard disk boarding a PanAm plane in 1956.
21. Coca Cola makes it’s debut in France, 1950.
22. Aftermath of the D-Day invasion. Two bots watch on as american soldiers drive through the town of St. Lo. France.
23. This is what a flight simulator looked like in 1942.
24. The Hollywood era begins – filming the MGM studio credits in 1928.
25. Factory workers racing on the roof of the Fiat factory in Turin, Italy, 1923.
26. The seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. It went for 3,245 years without being touched.
27. The first ever international tennis match played at Wimbledon.
28. An old traditional pub in London, 1898.
29. Princeton students after a snowball fight in 1893. What was in those snowballs? we don’t even want to know.
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