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20 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

Main Street, Deadwood, South Dakota, 1876

deadwood

 

US soldier and his Korean girlfriend spending some time together on a hill. Korea Circa (1953).

korean-girlfriend

 

A farmer and his horse on a field – as a Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird (tail number 61-7968,), reconnaissance aircraft taxies on the runway of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, c. 1971.

blackbird

 

Eight-year-old Samuel Reshevsky playing several opponents simultaneously in France, 1920

samuel

 

A U.S. soldier from the 7th Armored Division and British soldiers from the 15th (Scottish) Division giving sweets to Dutch children in Someren, the Netherlands. 2 November 1944

dutch-children

 

A German trench occupied by British Soldiers near the Albert-Bapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The men are from A Company, 11th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment

battle-of-the-somme

 

Hungarian revolutionaries use hammers and axes to smash the huge statue of Stalin. October 23, 1956. Budapest.

statue-of-stalin

 

Carl Rich’s Stratospheric flight suit, Sydney, June 1938

flight-suit

 

Anna Haining Swan (6 Aug 1846 – 5 Aug 1888). At a height of 7′11″ tall she was one of the biggest humans to ever live. New York, circa (1864).

anna-swan

 

Gary Graham, 36, is forcefully carried by prison guards into the Huntsville death house after physically resisting his execution (Texas, 2000)

gary-graham

 

U.S. soldiers who were cut off by the Germans for six days during the Battle of the Vosges file down the road after being relieved. 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. 31 October 1944

battle-of-vosges

 

FDR and Winston Churchill fishing at Shangri-La, Maryland 1943.

fdr-churchill

 

Suffragette shows hidden tight pants under her skirt (which was not allow at the time), Chicago, Illinois, (1916)

suffragette

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger arguing with his rival, Mike Mentzer, backstage at the 1980 Mr. Olympia contest.

arnold

 

President Bill Clinton having lunch with King Hussein of Jordan, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel and Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority in the White House library, 10/1/1996

bill-clinton

 

Vietnamese in the trenches of the Western Front, 1916

vietnamese-trenches

 

Student watching high school classes on TV during 1959 school year when schools were physically shut down due to Arkansas Governor Faubus signed acts to close all public schools claiming that Little Rock had to assert their rights and freedom against the federal decision Cooper v. Aaron

high-school-claases

 

Workers manufacturing artillery shells in Dublin, Ireland during the early months of WWI, as part of the wartime industrial mobilisation effort on the home front. (1914)

dublin

 

Creede, Colorado 1890

creede

 

Calamity Jane at the grave of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, Montana. (1903)

calamity-jane

 

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