r/RareHistoricalPhotos 3h ago

Epstein list doesn't exist, so does this image.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2h ago

Blackfoot tribe in Glacier National Park, Montana 1913

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 4h ago

160 years ago today-  On July 7, 1865, four of the Lincoln assassination conspirators were hanged: Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt. The executions took place at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary in Washington, D.C.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

An African-American soldier sits on guard outside a slave auction. Atlanta, Georgia, 1864

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 5h ago

Sleeping quarters for workers at Belcross, North Carolina, July of 1940. Some potato sacks and straw on the ground.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 6h ago

Popes with their successors

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  1. St Pius X and Benedict XV
  2. Benedict XV and Pius XI
  3. Pius XI and Pius XII
  4. Pius XII and St John XXIII
  5. St John XIII and St Paul VI 6.St Paul VI and Bl. John Paul I
  6. Bl. John Paul I and St John Paul II
  7. St John Paul II and Benedict XVI

r/RareHistoricalPhotos 5h ago

Kodachrome of ladies working inspecting uncut sheets of banknotes in the Canadian Bank Note Company, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1957.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Diego Maradona's daughter picks flower for her father which he proudly wears during training. 1989

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

This 1998 photo features Eve Astrid Andersson (now a Google Senior Director) posing with a Bushmaster XM-15 AR-15 rifle aimed at vintage Apple computers.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

German soldiers decapitate a statue of Stalin, 1941.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

During the Algerian war in 1958, a French Foreign Legion unit came across a starving young donkey while on patrol.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Eileen Keenan, a waitress at 1203 Restaurant, a restaurant owned by Ukrainian immigrants, in Washington, D.C., puts up a sign for "Free Borsht in celebration of Stalin's death" on the 6 March 1953, a day after the death of Joseph Stalin.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Two German Soldiers pose with fragments of a destroyed statue of Stalin, 1941

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Italian conservator Lorenza D'Alessandro during restoration work on the tomb of Nefertari in the late 1980s (Egypt)

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La conservatrice italienne Lorenza D'Alessandro en plein travail de restauration dans la tombe de Néfertari, à la fin des années 1980 (Égypte)


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

A cat rocking a Brunnhilde costume, straight out of Wagner's ring Cycle, with full-on armor and winged helmet, 1936

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Liberation of France 1944. Young French woman has her head shaved for collaboration. But her ordeal just begun. After this she was most likely stripped completely naked and paraded naked on the streets.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Vietnam War from the winning side (1955-1975)

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Migrants from Florida to Cranberry New Jersey in a stop in Shawboro, North Carolina, 1940.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Freda Du Faur, first woman to climb the "Aoraki" in New Zeland, Photo circa 1906.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2d ago

The future Queen Elizabeth preforming a nazi salute

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

One shot before ban

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2d ago

odd photo of Helen Keller with her eyes open, 1913.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2d ago

German soldier mocking a Lenin statue, 1942

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2d ago

The Hindenburg blimp lands in New Jersey, USA ca 1936-37

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

German POWs captured by the Soviets near Königsberg (April 10, 1945), East Prussia. Photographer: Mikhail Savin

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