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Rare historical photographs and the story behind them. This page is dedicated to the great historical events captured in images.
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12/02/2023
Children playing on playground equipment in Dallas, Texas. Ca. 1900
12/02/2023
Children Cross the River Using Pulleys on Their Way to School, 1959, Italy
06/27/2023
Sergeant Thomas Dawson with his daughter. Dawson lost his left arm at the Battle of of Inkerman during the Crimean War. The photograph was acquired by Queen Victoria in the 1850s. England, 1855-1856.
06/24/2023
Cars parked at Taylor & Pine Street, San Francisco, USA. ca. 1954. Photo taken by Fred Lyon.
06/23/2023
An undercover police officer on duty. New York, Brooklyn, 1 July 1969.
05/07/2022
Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp (1988)
05/06/2022
Penn Station In 1910 & Madison Square Garden 2019. Same place 110 years apart. (Colorized)
05/05/2022
A man stands on a colossal figure of Ramesses II at the temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt, 1865. (Colorized)
05/04/2022
V-Mail: A WWII program that scanned messages onto microfilm from 1942 through 1945. - factstory This method was adopted by the US military postal service, which renamed it "Victory Mail," or "V-Mail" for short, and it proved to be incredibly effective.
03/24/2022
03/18/2022
Horror of horrors!