20 Of The Rare Historical Photos That Will Impress You

1. Cop Stops The Traffic In New York So A Mother Cat Holding A Kitten Can Cross Safely C.1925

2. Remember That Photo Of The Construction Workers Having Lunch On The Unfinished Empire State Building? Well Here’s The Photographer Charles Ebbets Taking That Photo. 9/20/1932

3. Rail Commuters Wearing White Protective Masks, One With The Additional Message “Wear A Mask Or Go To Jail,” During The 1918 Influenza Pandemic In California

4. Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer

5. Mogadishu, 1993. An Italian Soldier Gives Food To A Local Orphan

6. Atelier Photo: “A Lesbian Couple In Semi Drag Wedding Attire”; Kingdom Of Hungary – Budapest, 1920

7. A Man Looking For A Job Wearing His Cv, England – 1930s

8. A Beach In Iran A Few Months Before The Islamic Revolution, 1979

9. A Man Browses For Books In The Old Public Library Of Cincinnati. The Building Was Demolished In 1955. Today An Office Building And A Parking Lot Stand Where It Used To Be

10. It’s No Longer Possible To See This, As Buildings Outside Block The Sun. Grand Central, NYC, 1929 Photo By Louis Faurer

11. Freddie Mercury With His Mother, 1947

12. A French Boy Introduces Himself To Indian Soldiers Who Had Just Arrived In France To Fight Alongside French And British Forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914. [colorization]

13. West German School Children Pause To Talk With Two East German Border Guards Beside An Opening In The Berlin Wall During The Collapse Of Communism In East Germany In November 1989 (Photo: Stephen Jaffe)

14. Reporters Who Exposed The Watergate Scandal Watch President Nixon Resign, 1974

15. A Man Guards His Family From The Cannibals During The Madras Famine Of 1877 At The Time Of British Raj, India

16. A Man Takes A Selfie Using A Stick Of Wood To Activate The Camera, 1957

17. French Soldiers Passing By A Dog Wearing Googles And Smoking A Pipe, 1915

18. High School Teacher John T. Scopes Is Brought To Trial In Dayton, Tennessee For Teaching The Theory Of Evolution, Which Was Prohibited Under State Law. July 10, 1925

19. David Attenborough Entertains Prince Charles And Princess Anne With A Cockatoo. 1958

20. A Young Female Welder Photographed By Bernard Hoffman In Connecticut, Circa 1943.