Chances are you haven’t seen most of these.. Below are 20 rare historical moments captured on camera.
Frank Sinatra stepping off of a helicopter with a drink in his hand, by Yul Brynner, 1964
Fidel Castro playing baseball in Havana, 1959
Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, mid-late 19th century
Driving class at Michigan Highland Park University, 1939
Climbers bringing down corpses of their fellows from Mont Blanc, 1895
Woodstock – The Opening Ceremony. Bethel, New York, 14 August 1969
Toffs and Toughs – The famous photo by Jimmy Sime that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937
To demonstrate the superiority of the Red Army, 57.000 German prisoners of war are herded through downtown Moscow, July 1944
The Olympic flame arrives in Berlin, 1936
The last prisoners leaving Alcatraz, 1963
The last commercial sailing ship, Pamir, to round Cape Horn in 1949
Selfies circa 1920
Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961
Porsche showing the model of the beetle to Hitler, 1930s
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
James Dean posing in a coffin in his home town in the year of his car crash and ensuing death, January 1955
Iranian woman before the Islamic Revolution, 1960
Iceberg that had red and black paint on it. They believe that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Photographed in 1912
Gold diggers marching through Chilkoot pass, the only way towards Dawson City, 1898
Georges Blind, a Member of the French Resistance, Smiling at a German Firing Squad, October 1944
Source: http://themavesite.com/wp/rare-historical-pictures/
Frank Sinatra stepping off of a helicopter with a drink in his hand, by Yul Brynner, 1964
Fidel Castro playing baseball in Havana, 1959
Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, mid-late 19th century
Driving class at Michigan Highland Park University, 1939
Climbers bringing down corpses of their fellows from Mont Blanc, 1895
Woodstock – The Opening Ceremony. Bethel, New York, 14 August 1969
Toffs and Toughs – The famous photo by Jimmy Sime that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937
To demonstrate the superiority of the Red Army, 57.000 German prisoners of war are herded through downtown Moscow, July 1944
The Olympic flame arrives in Berlin, 1936
The last prisoners leaving Alcatraz, 1963
The last commercial sailing ship, Pamir, to round Cape Horn in 1949
Selfies circa 1920
Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961
Porsche showing the model of the beetle to Hitler, 1930s
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
James Dean posing in a coffin in his home town in the year of his car crash and ensuing death, January 1955
Iranian woman before the Islamic Revolution, 1960
Iceberg that had red and black paint on it. They believe that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Photographed in 1912
Gold diggers marching through Chilkoot pass, the only way towards Dawson City, 1898
Georges Blind, a Member of the French Resistance, Smiling at a German Firing Squad, October 1944
Source: http://themavesite.com/wp/rare-historical-pictures/
