Photography plays an important role in understanding history. It provides a view and context for certain situations, and shows what it actually looked like, so people don’t have to rely solely on their imaginations, which can majorly skew things.
What’s also interesting is that while some pictures become popular representations of certain events, other angles of it do not get the same flowers — even though they show just as much of an important, if not more so, context for the situation. So, today we’re shining a light on these pictures of various historical events that are so under-appreciated that only very few people saw them.
#1 Nasa’s Camera From A Million Miles Away Took A Photo Of The Moon In Front Of The Earth

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#2 The Size Of Woodstock 1969

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#3 Young Actors Danny Lloyd And Lisa & Louise Burns In Between Takes Of The Shining At Elstree Studios, 1978

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#4 Photo Of A Hiker Watching The Eruption Of Mt. St. Helens From Mt. Adams, About 37 Miles To The East. Photo From Mt Adams By John V. Christiansen Around 8:32 Am Local Time On May 18, 1980 & Published In A 1981 National Geographic Magazine

#5 View Of Earth You Don’t Normally See

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#6 Sydney Opera House From Top

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#7 A Korean News Program Actually Filming On The Top Of The Building Instead Of Using A Green Screen

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#8 Charles Ebbets Photographing “Lunch On A Skyscraper”, The Famous Picture Of Workers In NY Eating Their Lunch On A Hanging Steel Beam

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#9 Lady Liberty

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#10 The Twin Towers Just After Construction, Showing Their Revolutionairy Near Hollow Architecture

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#11 The Eiffel Tower

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#12 The Real Life Models Beside The Painting ‘American Gothic’

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#13 The Pyramids Next To The City Of Giza

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#14 Darth Vader Without Helmet

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#15 Backside Of The Sphinx

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#16 Star Wars Episode Iv Opening Crawl

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#17 The Mechanical Shark Used For The Movie ‘Jaws’

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#18 The Set Of ‘I Love Lucy’

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#19 George Bush Flying Over 9/11

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#20 Prince William Giving “Middle Finger” After Prince Louis’ Birth

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#21 The Beatles Waiting To Cross Abbey Road, 1969. Photo By Iain Macmillan

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#22 The Other Side Of The I Have A Dream Speech

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#23 Construction On The Gateway Arch, 1965

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#24 Lincoln Memorial Before The Reflecting Pool

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#25 Behind The Iconic Scene From Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ (1972)

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#26 The Back Of The Iconic “Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas” Sign

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#27 Nirvana During The Photo Shoot For Their Album Nevermind, Which Was Released 30 Years Ago, 1991

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#28 The Other Side Of The Price Is Right Wheel

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#29 The Front Door Of The White House – From The Inside

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#30 ’10 Years Ago Today The Office Series Finale Aired And We All Said Goodbye To Dunder Mifflin’

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#31 Underneath A Music Festival Stage

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#32 Windows 10 Wallpaper

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#33 Behind The Scenes At The Tiny Desk In 360˚

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