25 Fascinating Photos From History's Vault
Nathan Johnson
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01/31/2023
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The world we live in is a truly interesting place. Since its very beginning, the one thing that has remained constant about this planet we call home is that it is in a constant state of change. As the years go by, time touches all things and we see everything from the landscape to the living creatures around us changing. So get ready to take a virtual field trip back in time with this collection of pics that give us a glimpse into the past.
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A baseball team of death-row inmates. Their executions were delayed only as long as they kept winning. 1910 -
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Couples rush to secure a marriage license and get married in Las Vegas, ahead of Executive Order 11241 taking effect, which eliminated the draft exception for married men. August 26, 1965. -
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Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (Bonnie and Clyde) -
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Newly appointed Chancellor Adolf Hitler greets President von Hindenburg at a memorial service. Potsdam, 1933 -
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Nuremberg trials, 1945 -
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John Clarence Woods on the 16th of October 1946 shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials . He was tasked with the duty of putting to death the convicted NAZI war criminals -
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Qantas Airways 747 upper deck in 1971 -
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An M1917 tank and U.S. Army soldiers on patrol in Lexington, Kentucky to keep peace after a large mob tried to lynch Will Lockett, a black man who is on trial for his murder of a young white girl February 10/11, 1920 -
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Rows of infected people assembled into warehouses suffering from 1918 Influenza Pandemic. A total of 50-100 million people were killed, c.1918. -
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Patients having a happy time fishing and swimming under the walls of the old chateau. These American soldiers are recovering from war neurosis, as the scientists now call the condition that used to be described as âshell-shock.â September 1918 -
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This is how enemy aircrafts were detected before the invention of RADAR, 1921 -
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High school football players practice in Chicago. 1902. -
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The whipping post pictured above was put into use around 1885 at the Baltimore City Jail, where until 1938, many of those convicted of wife-beating were punished. -
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The last public execution to take place in the US. August 14, 1936. -
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Belka, a Soviet dog who went to space in the Sputnik 5. She returned to Earth safely. August 1960. -
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King George V shooting tigers from above an elephant, Nepal, 1911. -
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The âDodge City Peace Commissionâ in 1883. Wyatt Earp is seated, second from left; Luke Short is standing, second from left; and Bat Masterson is standing, third from left. -
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A group of Navajo in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. 1904. -
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Maori women from New Zealand in 1902 -
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Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASAâs Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962 -
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A balloon apron is suspended to defend London from air attacks, 1915 -
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Portrait of an immigrant family from Scotland. Taken at Ellis Island in 1905. The family would later settle in Alabama -
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Houdini exposes spirit trickery to New York clergymen, 1925. -
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Dunkirk Evacuation, 1940 -
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Canadian Troops land at Courseulles at Juno Beach June 6th, 1944 -
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A Jewish mother tries to shield her child from the bullets of a Nazi death Squad (Einsatzgruppe) during the Kiev massacres. Never Forget. 1942 -
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Samir, The Iraqi-American military interpreter for Operation Red Dawn poses with a recently captured Saddam Hussain in Ad-Dawr, Iraq. Decemeber 13th, 2003. -
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At a Berlin elementary school in 1934, students pay tribute to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. â -
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The woman in this 106-year-old photo wears a traditional dress that signifies she is married and part of the Mongolian nobility.â -
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Flattening hills to build Seattle, 1905-1930 -
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A very early photo of the Pantheon in Rome, captured in 1860. -
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'Adult Industry' workers on display in Yoshiwara during the Meiji period, 1882 -
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Ladies of the evening posing as âworking girlsâ in Dawson, Canada during the gold rush 1900 -
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Tauentzielgirl team (lower class prostitutes) in Weimar Berlin, 1920âs. -
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The guy on the left is named William West. The guy on the right is also named William West. -
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Phnom Penh, April 17, 1975: The day Cambodia fell under control of the communist Khmer Rouge Guerilla forces
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