These days, when cameras are everywhere, from our phones to security cams in public spaces, it’s easy to forget that the major part of history has passed without them. Only in 1888, when Kodak released the first commercial camera, did they slowly begin permeating our lives.
But long before thousands of snaps on our camera rolls, photographs were reserved for capturing precious and one-of-a-kind moments. These incredible visual monuments of history have resurfaced and brought a whole new meaning to events and lives of people in the past.
And today we’re about to get on board down memory lane full of raw emotions and unstaged realities captured in these rare historical photos. After you’re done, make sure to check out our part 1 right here.
#1 100,000 Iranian Women March Against The Hijab Law, Tehran 1979
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#2 Meet The “Night Witches”, Fearless Russian Female Pilots Who Bombed Nazis By Night, 1941
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#3 A Native American Mother And Her Child – 1900s
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#4 In 1941, The Photo On The Left Was Taken Of Soviet Soldier Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev On The Day He Left To Go To War. The Photo On The Right Was Taken In 1945 After The End Of The War, Just 4 Years Apart
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#5 Keshia Thomas Protects An Alleged Kkk Supporter From A Mob In Ann Arbor, Mi, 1996
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#6 A Red Cross Nurse Writing Down Last Words Of Mortally Wounded Soldier, Taken Around 1917
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#7 Sir David Attenborough As A Young Man, Late 1950s
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#8 Annette Kellerman Promotes Women’s Right To Wear A Fitted One-Piece Bathing. She Was Arrested For Indecency (1907)
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#9 British Soldiers (Interrupted During Drag Show Rehearsals By A German Raid) Manning A Bl 6-Inch Mk Vii Naval Gun At Shornemead Fort, England In 1940
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#10 Grand Central Terminal, NYC, The Sun Can’t Shine Through Like That Now Due To The Surrounding Tall Buildings. 1929
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#11 Coal Miners Coming Up A Coal Mine Elevator After A Day Of Work In 1920’s Belgium
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#12 Today In 1945, The Auschwitz Death Camp Was Discovered And Liberated By The Red Army
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#13 A Boy’s Reaction Staring At A TV Screen For The First Time (1948)
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#14 American Troops Treat A Wounded Dog On Orote Pennisula. W.Eugene Smith. 1944
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#15 Female Snipers Of The 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front, 775 Confirmed Kills, Germany, May 1945
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#16 Lockheed Martin Employee Sally Wadsworth Working On The Fuselage Of A P-38 Lightning In California In 1944
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#17 JFK & Bill Clinton Greeting At The White House, In 1963
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#18 Arikara Warrior ‘Bear’s Belly’ – North Dakota, USA – Photo By Edward Curtis (1909)
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#19 An Undercover Police Officer On Duty. New York, Brooklyn, 1 July 1969
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#20 San Francisco’s Iconic Cliff House, Shortly Before It Was Destroyed By Fire In 1907
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#21 Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor And Meteorologist Charles Wright In The Entrance Of An Ice Grotto. Terra Nova Expedition, Ross Island, 5 January 1911. Photo Taken By Herbert Ponting
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#22 Visiting Quarantined Family And Friends At Ullevål Hospital, Oslo – Photo By Anders Beer Wilse – 1905
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#23 A U.S. Marine Rescues Two Vietnamese Children During A Gun Battle At The City Of Hue, During The Tet Offensive Of The Vietnam War – 1968
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#24 A Woman Overlooking A Snowy Mountain Pass In The Pyrenees Mountains, France – 1956
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#25 Homecoming, A British Soldier With His 8 Month Old Daughter As He Arrives At The Docks From Overseas 1945
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#26 A German World War II Prisoner Is Released By The Soviet Union And Reunited With His 12-Year-Old Daughter, Who Has Not Seen Him Since Infancy. 1956
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#27 Mother And Baby Of Family Of Nine Living In Field On U.S. Route 70 Near The Tennessee River, March 1936
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#28 Cetshwayo, King Of The Zulu Who Defeated The British At The Battle Of Isandlwana, 1878
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#29 Shepherds Listening To Music Records, Azerbaijan 1939
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#30 The World’s Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship – The Pamir – Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
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#31 Navajo Riders In The Canyon De Chelly, Arizona. 1904, Photo Taken By Edward Curtis
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#32 A Native American Man Looking Over The Newly Completed Transcontinental Railroad In Nevada, 1869
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#33 One Of The Many Selfies That Emperor Nicholas II Took Throughout His Life, (1868-1918)
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#34 Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911
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#35 All Of Them Pick Shrimp At The Peerless Oyster Co. Photo Was Taken While Bosses Were At Dinner As They Refused To Permit The Children To Be In Photos. Out Of 60 Workers, 15 Were Apparently Under 12 Yrs Old. Bay St. Louis, Miss, March 1911
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#36 Oldest Austrian Soldier Of Ww1, A 79-Year-Old Gaspar Wallnöfer, Veteran Of Habsburg Campaigns In Italy In 1848 And 1866, September 1917
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#37 Last Sword Duel In History In France, 1967 Between The Mayor Of Marseille And The Socialist Party Candidate For Presidency
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#38 A Rare Photo Of A Traffic Accident In The Netherlands More Than 100 Years Ago. The Photo Was Taken In 1914
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#39 An Outdoor Hockey Game In Sweden Is Cut Short, 1959
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#40 Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building (1934)
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#41 A Babushka Keeps The Ears Of Her Grandson Warm As He Takes An Oath Of Enlistment For The Russian Army. Volgograd, 1994. Photo Taken By Nikolai Ignatiev
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#42 Anti British Propaganda, Japan 1941
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#43 Rome When It Became The Capital Of The Kingdom Of Italy (1871)
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#44 Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards Soars Above A Roaring Crowd At The 1988 Winter Olympics. He Finished Last
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#45 Survivors Of 1972 Of The Infamous Andes Plane Crash. The Passengers Resorted To Cannibalism To Survive 72 Days In The Snow
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#46 FDR Using Help To Get Out Of His Car, One Of The Few Photos That Show His Paralytic Illness, Journalists And Photographers Avoided Showing The President In This Weak State Especially During WWII, Taken In The 24th Of September 1932
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#47 Iron Workers Pose For A Photo Atop The North Tower Of The World Trade Center, 1973
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#48 Conrad O’brien-Ffrench Greets A Bear. Having Spent His Youth As A Mountie, Surviving The First World War And Serving As An Mi6 Agent In The Second World War, He Was Known To Welcome Danger. Banff National Park, 1950. Photo Taken By Rosalie French
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#49 The Airship Le Jaune Flying Past The Eiffel Tower, In Paris, France. (11/20/1903)
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#50 Las Vegas Police Facing Mike Tyson After He’d Just Bitten Holyfield’s Ear Off (1996)
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