Rare Historical Photos

[DexterMorgan]

The first Wal-Mart store was opened in 1962 by [a salesman] Sam Walton. It was called Walton's Five and Dime.

One of the first McDonald's restaurants open in 1948.

Henry Ford (the founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera and the practical light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) lounging together.

One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler's bunker (Führerbunker) in 1945 by Allied soldiers.

Madonna, Sting and Tupac hanging out.

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The Quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra. The only Quagga to have been photographed alive was this mare at the Zoological Society of London's Zoo in Ragent's Park in 1870.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates chatting in 1991.



During the Apollo 16 mission, Charles Duke left a family photo on the moon that was enclosed in a plastic bag.

[austinite]

Nice. I love this type of stuff. Check this old thread out, Dexter...

World's First Photograph - Year 1826 - few more interesting photos

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This photo was taken in space right after World War II (1946). A team of soldiers and scientists used a German-made V-2 missile equipped with a camera to capture this shot. Making it the first photo in space.

Douglas MacArthur signing the official Japanese surrender instrument aboard the USS Missouri, 1945

Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun from afar. It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat, and fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece.

Joseph Goebbels on his wedding day. Hitler was his best man and can be seen behind him in a trench coat and top hat.

George Armstrong Custer and some of his fellow soldiers, during the American Civil War.

Howard Carter, an English archaeologist, examining the opened sarcophagus of King Tut.

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An RAF pilot getting a haircut while reading a book between missions.[/QUOTE]


Samurai. ~ 1860 – 1880

A team of SAS soldiers in North Africa, 1943.

Soviet soldiers stop for a break in 1945 on the outskirts of Berlin.

John Young and Charles Duke training for the Apollo 16 mission in the New Mexico desert.

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An American soldier replaces "Adolf-Hitler-Str." sign with a "Roosevelt Blvd" one in Berlin, Germany, 1945.

Microsoft staff. December 7, 1978.

One of the heaviest WW2 tanks ever created, the Tiger II. It weighed ~68.5 tonnes and had 100-180mm armour on the front. Budapest, Hungary, 1944.

nts after a Freshman / Sophomore snowball fight. Princeton, NJ, 1893.

Martin Luther King Jr. removing a burned cross from his front yard. His son is at his side. Atlanta, GA, 1960.

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39th Tomsk infantry regiment with their motorcycle-mounted machine guns during WW1, Russia.

A man on the corner is reading a newspaper which headline reads “Nazi Army Now 75 Miles Away from Paris”. New York, May 18, 1940.

A native American man overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada, ~1868.

The original Ronald clown of McDonald's. 1963.

Aircraft await orders while being grounded on 9/11. Nova Scotia, Canada. Photo: Halifax Airport.

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A WW1 submarine with a hull number of U-118 was found washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, Sussex, England. After the surrender of Germany, its towing cable snapped as it was being towed to France for dismantling.

Disneyland employee cafeteria of 1961.[/QUOTE]

Sven-Ole Thorsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of Conan The Barbarian.

A German Krupp K5 283mm railway gun firing. It was one of the most commonly used railway guns during World War 2 by Germany.

Californian lumberjacks working in the Redwoods. These trees have lived for thousands of years, so seeing photos like this saddens us (the trees didn't hurt anyone). Check out our recent article on the tallest, biggest and oldest trees in the world.

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Bill (Clinton) & Hillary playing volleyball in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. 1975.

106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. 1990.

The first photo upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912.

Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein at the Bohr-Einstein debates over quantum mechanics.

Johnny Cash performing for prisoners at Folsom Prison. January 13, 1968.[/QUOTE]

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Star Wars set at lunchtime.

Times Square in New York, 1911.

Train Derailment at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France. 1895.

Release of Windows 95

The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he recieved his American citizenship.

Times Square, New York, USA. 1972.

Looks like a bad day to mow your lawn. Pictured are lineups at a gas station during the 1973 fuel shortage.
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taking a break from fighting as they play with a cute kitten. 1943.

A Grumman X-29 experimental aircraft. It was engineered to test a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. The aerodynamic instability of this arrangement increased agility but required the use of computerized fly-by-wire control.

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President Richard Nixon trying to figure out how to use chopsticks while visiting in China. 1972

Soviet soldiers pose with 'Hitler's Globe'. Berlin, Germany, 1945.

USS Nautilus visiting New York in 1956. It was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.

Babe Ruth shakes hands with U.S. President Warren G. Harding during a game at the Yankees Stadium. April, 1923. Ruth set career records for home runs which totalled at 714!

People having a picnic in the middle of a highway during the 1973 oil crisis.

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Construction of the Berlin wall. Germany, 1961.

Natives admiring an American Air Force F4-U “Corsair” somewhere in the Pacific. 1943

Adolf Hitler's pants after the assassination attempt at the Wolf's Lair. Rastenburg, East Prussia, 1944.

Steven Spielberg examining a scale model on the set of “Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark”. 1980

John F. Kennedy having a tea party with his daughter, Caroline.

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Notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his son in front of the White House. 1980's.

The first flight of the Wright brothers. Dec 17, 1903.

The headquarters of Benito Musolini and the Italian Fascist party. Rome, ~1930.

Crew members of Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing. 1966.

Construction of Mount Rushmore. 1934-1939.[/QUOTE]

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A Russian Sukhoi Su-25 close air support jet that was damaged by a Georgian MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense System). Most likely a replica of the Soviet designed 9K38 Igla. Georgian Conflict, 2008.

Folsom Street in San Francisco, USA after the great earthquake of 1906.

Soviet cruiser “Murmansk” that ran aground off the Norwegian village Sørvær during the transfer to be scrapped in India. 1994.

Hoover Dam penstocks and outlet pipes such as this one were fabricated from 45,000 tons of steel and welded into nearly three miles of pipe varying from 8.5-30ft (2.6-9m) in diameter.

Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. By the end of World War 2, she had 309 confirmed kills - thus making her the most successful female sniper in history.

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US Customs agent pointing a gun at a car that is suspected of transporting marijuana across the US-Mexico border. 1969.


Prone position pilot bed that was designed in an attempt to lessen pilot fatigue and ease the effects of gravitational forces. 1949.

Members of the RECON platoon are shown unloading from a UH-1D (Huey) helicopter. Operation "Oregon" operating 3 kilometers west of Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam.
L Motors dealership that specialized in selling Dodges and Plymouths. New York City, USA, 1948.

Stalin is captured in this photograph by Lt. Gen. Nikolai Vlasik, the Soviet dictator’s bodyguard. Vlasik’s off-the-record photos of Stalin caused a sensation in the early 1960s when an enterprising Soviet journalist spirited some out, selling them to newspapers and magazines worldwide.

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Filming of The Matrix. The movie utilized high tech (for that time) visual effects and 3D animation.

Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865.

F1 pilot ejects at extremely low altitude. The pilot survived with multiple fractures. 1962.

German engineers testing the Messerschmitt BF109 E3.

Golden Gate Bridge construction. 1937.

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Jimi Hendrix driving a dune buggy with an unidentified woman. October 6, 1968.[/QUOTE]
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mugshot before he was jailed for "demonstrating without a permit" in Birmingham, AL. April 12, 1963.

Mona Lisa being returned to its home at the Louvre in Paris, France after WW2. 1945.

St. Catherine Street, Montreal, Quebec. Circa 1916. Shorpy.

[austinite]

Very cool man. I can't stop looking at that Shop pic. Breakfast with coffee for 10 cents!!

[DexterMorgan]

Very cool man. I can't stop looking at that Shop pic. Breakfast with coffee for 10 cents!!

Ohh hey Aus.
10 cents for brkfst and a cup of coffee would be nice today

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NASA before Powerpoint. Life Magazine.

New York World's Fair, railroad pageant. People view the latest in locomotives. Shorpy.

Niagara Falls during the freeze of 1911. You can see people walking right at the bottom of the frozen waterfall.


Albert Einstein looking fabulous.


The original Piggly Wiggly Store, Memphis, Tennessee. The first self service grocery store, opened 1916.[/QUOTE]

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A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

The 1912 World Series.

Child laborers in 1880.

Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil.

[crazy mike]

Very, very cool. ...crazy mike

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The construction of DisneyLand

Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.

A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.

Brighton Swimming Club in 1863. I'm assuming the top hats are not part of their everyday swimwear.(Miscers)

Mount Rushmore as it appeared in its more natural state.

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A view of Boston in 1860 taken from a hot air balloon.

Pope Pio XII meets with Hitler.

Bread and soup during the Great Depression.

German air raid on Moscow in 1941

A crash on board an aircraft carrier sometime during World War II.

[Fcastle357]

Those are some cool pics. Man on the moon.....?

[DexterMorgan]

Dismantling the Berlin Wall in 1989. ( I held a pice of that wall in my hand =)






Berlin, Friedrichstraße in Mitte - 1905

Streetlife on Friedrichstraße at the beginning of the last century. On the left hand side of the street-crossing in the back is the “Kaisergalerie” - an early type of shopping-mall that was completely destroyed in WW2





miscers back in the day





constructing the brooklyn bridge




highlander, 1929

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The Arm of Liberty, 1876-1882

‘The arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty in Madison Square Park, New York. These portions of the Statue were exhibited to raise funds for the completion of the statue and its pedestal. The arm and torch remained in the park from 1876 until 1882.

‘Members of the public could pay fifty cents to climb to the balcony of the torch






Some dude trolling back in a day.



“Amplifiers at Bolling Field, 1921.” Two giant horns with ear tubes, evidently designed to listen for approaching aircraft


D-Day

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Health and Safety in action, 1932


MGM Lion being filmed


Nixon and Elvis

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Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reaching the summit of Everest, 1953[/QUOTE]


Soviet soldiers with lowered standards of the defeated Nazi forces during the Victory Day parade in Moscow, on June 24, 1945

Gaunt and emaciated, but happy at their release from Japanese captivity, two Allied prisoners pack their meager belongings, after being freed near Yokohama, Japan, on September 11, 1945

The return of victorious Soviet soldiers at a railway station in Moscow in 1945

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb blast shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin on July 20, 1946.

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A Japanese man amid the scorched wreckage and rubble that was once his home in Yokohama, Japan

Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei (center) in Berlin with Soviet forces, near the Brandenburg Gate in May of 1945

A P-47 Thunderbolt of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force flies low over the crumbled ruins of what once was Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden, Germany, on May 26, 1945.


The interior of the courtroom of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1946 during the Trial of the Major War Criminals, prosecuting 24 government and civilian leaders of Nazi Germany

Many of Germany's captured new and experimental aircraft were displayed in an exhibition as part of London's Thanksgiving week on September 14, 1945.

[Hazard]

Cool thread

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One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near "Omaha" Beach, on May 28, 1945

A survivor of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare, Jinpe Teravama retains scars after the healing of burns from the bomb explosion, in Hiroshima, in June of 1947

This is an aerial view of the city of London around St. Paul's Cathedral showing bomb-damaged areas in April of 1945

The super transport ship, General W.P. Richardson, docked in New York, with veterans of the European war cheering on June 7, 1945.

A U.S. soldier examines a solid gold statue, part of Hermann Goering's private loot, found by the 7th U.S. Army in a mountainside cave near Schonau am Konigssee, Germany, on May 25, 1945

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Japanese Kawanishi H8K seaplane after strafing. Kwajalein

HARVS on the way launched by a P-47.

Deck crew climbing up to get the pilot out. He did

Marines disembark LST at Tinian Island

Bougainville

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Guam

U.S. munitions ship goes up during the invasion of Sicily(Holy fuarkkk)

German V1

Spitfire "tipping-off" a V1. If you've never heard of this insane tactic ....... At first V1's were shot down by gunfire. With the high risk of being blown up, some of the best pilots started tipping the V1's wing; because of damage to wing tips they later developed a tactic of disrupting the airflow by placing their wing very close to the V1's wing, causing it to topple. Not every pilot did this. At night this was not possible, the flame from the V1 blinded the pilot to everything else, though some Mossie pilots flew past closely in front of the V1, again causing it to topple

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Red Army snipers doing some anti aircraft work.

Garman tank at Prokhorovka

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The Hindenburg Disaster


Yuri Gagarin (First man in Space) meets Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba. 1961.


A mugshot of Frank Sinatra.


May only be interesting to me, but an eviction of Irish natives by English soldiers in the west of Ireland.


Hitler in the crowd at Odeonplatz during mobilization of the German army during World War II. Munich, August 2, 1914

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Sean Connery (#24 white shorts) places 3rd in Mr.Universe 1953.