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24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

author:Historical naturalist

Usually, when you read historical articles or stories, it's mostly just dry facts and your imagination. But an amazing photo gives a slightly different feel. It shows you the reality of all this and gives you a deeper understanding of the historical moment. Whether it's historical landmarks, celebrities or random old photos of the past – they all have fascinating stories behind them.

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

The first black girl to attend an all-white school in the United States — ridiculed and ridiculed by her white male peers at Harry Harding High School— in 1957

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Nikola Tesla sat in his lab, and his "amplification transmitter"

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Jewish prisoners rescued from the death train in 1945

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

The grave of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, The Netherlands, 1888

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

A Loner Who Refused to Perform a Nazi Salute, 1936

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Event organizers tried to prevent Kathrine Switzer from running the Boston Marathon. She became the first woman to complete the race in 1967

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Harold Whittles first heard the voice, 1974

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Job hunting in the 1930s

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Sweden changed from left-hand driving to right-hand driving on the first morning, 1967

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

German soldiers' reactions to concentration camp footage, 1945

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

In 1961, residents of West Berlin showed their children to grandparents living in the east

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Acrobats balancing on top of the Empire State Building, 1934

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Statue of Liberty in Paris in 1884

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

187-foot Bolaji Badejo in the costume of the classic sci-fi thriller Alien, 1978

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Lesbian couple at Lesbian Monocle, Paris, 1932

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

The remains of astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

A battle dog wounded while fighting on the Orot Peninsula in 1944

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

These are the survivors of the Titanic that boarded the Carpathians in 1912

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Rare photograph of the young Winston Churchill, 1895

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

Robert Williams Wood, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein in the front row of the Meeting of the Physical Society in Berlin, July 28, 1931

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

The guillotine's last public execution, 1939

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

The last photograph of Vladimir Lenin. In 1923, he had suffered a stroke for three years and could not speak

24 rare historical photos that you may never have seen before

The world's first atomic bomb, 1945

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