35 Historical Photos We Rarely Get To See

Roy

3 years ago

Escape artist Harry Houdini locked up in chains about to take a 30 foot plunge off the Harvard Bridge into the Charles River in Boston, 1908.

Queen Elizabethll had two "hidden" cousins named Nerissa (left) and Katherine Bowes-Lyom (right) who were both born with severe learning disabilities.

17-year-old Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning in 1971. She fell 2 miles to the ground, was strapped to her seat, and survived 10 days in the Amazon Jungle.

In 1913, 10-year-old Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma. The best farming land was reserved for whites, so she was given a barren plot. Oil was discovered there and she became the country's first black millionaire.

When Jim Henson died on May 16, 1990, Disney drew a picture of Mickey Mouse (Disney) consoling Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson Studios) and sent it to the mourners at Henson's studios.

Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours, c. 1900.

In 1979, more than 100,000 women gathered to protest against the forced use of hijab after the Iranian Revolution, 1979. The protest was held on International Women's Day.

Irena Sender (1910-2008) helped smuggle Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2, providing them with false identity documents and shelter with willing Polish families or in orphanages and other care facilities, saving those children from the Holocaust.

Tokyo subway pushers in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Great Blizzard of 1888 was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast, with snow from 10 to 58 inches (25 to 147 cm) in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Rare photo of the Golden Gate Bridge's early construction.

These are the voice actors behind some of the animated characters in the Peanuts gang of Charlie Brown, 1968.

The world's last commercial ocean-going sailing ship - Pamir - rounding Cape Horn, 1949.

Workers assemble President Abraham Lincoln's statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, 1920.

Workers for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company in Michigan prepare for the long ride down into the copper mines to work, 1906. It was the deepest mine in the world until 1915, with a vertical depth of 5,500 feet (1,676 meters).

What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1952

An Indian student studying at the University of Madras in Tamil Nadu, 1905. While studying late at night, students use to tie their hairs to a nail in the wall to prevent themselves from falling asleep.

On August 8th 1982 a line drive foul ball hits a four year old boy, Jonathan Keane, in the head at Fenway Park. Jim Rice, realizing in a flash that it would take EMTs too long to arrive and cut through the crowd, sprang from the dugout and scooped up the boy.

Soviet water polo player Petre Kako Mshvenieradze with his grandson, 1990s

Mary Ann Bevan (1874 - 1933) was an English woman who toured the sideshow circuit as "the ugliest woman in the world" after her appearance drastically changed due to developing acromegaly. It leads to excess growth hormone which causes enlargement of the forehead, jaw, and nose.

A woman taking in the scale model for the newly planned World Trade Center, late 1960s.

A Roman era skull found impaled with a large spike. It is currently on display in Bonn, Germany.

Mother and daughter from the Mangbetu tribe, 1930. Limpombo (head elongation) was believed to allow the brain to grow bigger thus increasing intelligence and it was also a sign of beauty.

Japanese Doctor Fukushi Masaichi (1878-1956) was the worlds leading collector of body torn tattoos.

Teddy Roosevelt's diary after his wife and mother died on the same day, 1884

Boris Karloff has a cup of tea on the set of 'Frankenstein' in 1931.

A giant snowman measuring 17 ft. made by two girls in Aberdeen, Scotland, Jan. 3, 1963.

Fat Men's Club of NY (1904) Members had to be at least 200 pounds, pay a $1 fee to enter and learn a secret handshake and password.

German soldiers crowded around a Christmas tree celebrating Christmas somewhere on the Western Front during World War I.

Portable cabanas for changing on a public beach, New York, 1938.

A restaurant in Bangkok has been continuously cooking and serving from the same soup for over 45 years, a form of "perpetual stew."

Skeleton of an Archelon ischyros, the largest turtle to have ever lived at the Yale Peabody museum of Natural History, 1902.

Workers of the De Beers mines were X-rayed at the end of every shift before leaving the diamond mines in South Africa. 1954.

Anne Frank pokes her head out of her family's flat in Amsterdam, 1942

In 2012, a group of Mexican scientists intentionally crashed a Boeing 727 to test which seats had the hect chance of survival

Early trials of mass paratrooper drops included transporting them on top of planes and then sliding off the wings.

The ancient library of Tibet. Only 5% has been translated

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