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Awesome Historical Photos (52 pics)

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"The Barge "Marine Angel" Negotiates A Turn Through The Upraised Michigan Ave. Bridge, Chicago, 1953"

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"Police Dog On Duty In Side Car. 1930s"


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"The Old Cincinnati Library Before Being Demolished, 1874-1955"


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"Milk Delivery By Dogcart, Studio City, Ca, Circa 1910"


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"In The 1920s And 1930s, Sheep Were Routinely Introduced Into London Parks To Keep The Grass Under Control And Reduce Mowing Costs"


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"Shepherds competed for the privilege of grazing their flocks on Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Clapham Common and other pastures around the city. Sheep are like a lawn care multi-tool. As they cut your grass, they also aerate the lawn with their hooves and spread fertilizer in the form of urine and manure. Sheep don’t require gasoline and oil changes, and although they are certainly not maintenance-free, grass-fed sheep are a sustainable alternative to lawn mower."

"The Soldiers Fed The Polar Bears With Condensed Milk Tins. Soviet Union, 1950"

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"Photo taken during a routine military expedition in Chukchi Peninsula, Soviet Union. It isn’t sure if the Chukchi Peninsula has more people or white bears. The climate is very severe and sometimes weather can be so fierce in winter that the temperature falls 60 C degrees below zero (-76 Fahrenheit)."

"Snowman On A Soviet Scale. Ussr. Late 1960s"


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"Country Store, North Carolina 1939"


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"Here We See The Creation Of The Central Line In 1898"


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"Here are a million fascinating facts and figures about the London Underground, but this rarely seen photograph reminds us just what an engineering feat the construction process was."

"Charitable Chinese Man Feeding A Criminal In A Cangue. Ca. 1905"


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"Petty criminals were sentenced to wear the canque, often for a couple of months, and display themselves in public places. At best they were humbled by dependence on others to be fed, at worst, they might starve to death. The sign on the cangue describes the man's crime."

"Gypsy Children Being Taught To Play The Violin In A Courtyard Of One Of The Poorer Houses. Budapest, Hungary, 1939 By William Vandivert"

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"People Sleeping On The Crowded Platform Of Elephant And Castle Tube Station While Taking Shelter From German Air Raids During The London Blitz"


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"High School Teenagers 1947"


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"Finnish Cavalry Training 1930s"


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"Police Officer Guarding A Pharmacy In High-Flood Waters, Ontario, 1974"


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"An Elevator Parking Lot In New York. C.1920"

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"A Man Standing On The First Cables During The Construction Of The Golden Gate Bridge, With The Presidio And San Francisco In The Background. 1935"


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"Moving A House Using Horses. San Francisco, 1908"


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"Sunday At Coney Island 1949"


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"A New York Construction Worker Walks Along A Girder High Above The City Streets, Circa 1950"


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"This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850"

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"Couples Dancing In The Grand Foyer Of The Paris Opera House At A Victory Ball"


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"Three Boys Are Fishing For Change During The Great Depression, New York, 1930"


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"Daytona Beach 1903"


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"Kids Playing On The Lower East Side, New York, 1963"


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"San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge"

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"A stunning technological and artistic achievement, opens to the public after five years of construction. On opening day–“Pedestrian Day”–some 200,000 bridge walkers marveled at the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge, which spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay and connects San Francisco and Marin County. On May 28, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicular traffic."

"Boys Sidewalk Sledding On Steep San Francisco Hill Street, 1952"


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"The Grand Prix In Monaco, 1937"


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"R.m.s. Mauretania 1909"


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"Man Standing In The Lumberyard Of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939"


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"Drive-In Theatre. Chicago 1951"

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"The Beatles' Rooftop Concert In 1969"


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"Times Building Under Construction, 1903"


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"Paris Viewed From The Top Of Notre Dame, 1955"


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"Los Angeles Development Boom Of The 1950s"


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"Second Class Saloon, Nome, Alska, July 1, 1901"

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"Mount Adams Incline And Price Hill Incline. Cincinnati Ohio 1906"


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"30 Men Prove The Strength Of The Dkw 'Front Reichsklasse' Type F7 Car, Amazingly Built By Wooden Coachwork 1930s"


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"Rms Mauretania (Also Known As The "Maury") Was An Ocean Liner Of The Cunard Line, Launched On 20 September 1906"


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"At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. Mauretania became a favourite among her passengers. After capturing the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1907 inaugural season, Mauretania held the speed record for 22 years."

"Window Cleaners Cleaning High Rise On Madison Avenue. 1957"


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"Best Friends Since Ww2"


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"Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor Feeding An Orphaned Kitten. He Adopted The Kitten After The Mother Cat Died During The War, 1952"


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"In 1912, Jim Thorpe, A Native American, Had His Running Shoes Stolen On The Morning Of His Olympic Track And Field Event"


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"He found this mismatched pair of shoes in the garbage and ran in them to win two Olympic gold medals that day. Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon). He also played American football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and basketball."

"Polish Resistance Veterans Of The Warsaw Uprising (1944), Pictures Then And Now"


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"A Woman Smiling And Goofing Around While Taking Photos, Late 1800s"

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"Freddy Mercury And His Mother, 1947"


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"A Young Man Demonstrating Against Low Pay For Teachers, C. 1930s"


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"A Woman Dressed Up As Batgirl In 1904, 35 Years Before The Creation Of Batman (1939) And 57 Years Before The Creation Of Batgirl (1961)"


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"Pictured Above Is Gunnar Kaasen. He And His Team Of 13 Dogs, LED By The Siberian Husky, Balto, Completed The Last Leg Of A 1925 Trip To Deliver 300,000 Units Of Diphtheria Antitoxin To Nome, Alaska"


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"Kindergarten Children Were Asked On Father’s Day To Draw From The Memory Portraits Of Their Dads, And Then Compared Them To The Original, Life Magazine, USA, 1949'

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