18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Categories: History

Some old photos show such rare phenomena that you can look at them for hours. And behind each such frame from the past are the lives and stories of thousands of unknown ancestors. 

Our next historical selection of archival photos, with the help of which it is interesting to learn new things about the world. 

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov in the ceremonial uniforms of "their" sponsored regiments, 1910.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Graduation party, 1895.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Soldiers of the countries of the Caucasus region, the beginning of the XX century.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Geisha, Japan, 1920s.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Surfers, 1922.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, with his wife in 1928.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

King George VI of Great Britain, 1938.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Fawzia Fouad, Princess of Egypt and Queen of Iran, 1939.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

The death of the ocean transatlantic liner "Normandy" on February 9, 1942 at Pier No. 88 in New York.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Linda Christian is a Mexican actress and the first Bond girl, born in 1945.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

A boy watches TV for the first time through a shop window, 1948.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

An Inuit girl with a husky puppy, 1949.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, the founders of Adidas and Puma, respectively.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

An Iranian woman, 1960.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Bikers, the 1960s.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Players of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks hockey clubs are looking for a contact lens that Jack Evans lost during a match, 1962.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

16-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger at his first bodybuilding competition, 1963.

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

The opening ceremony of the XXII Summer Olympic Games, Moscow, 1980.

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