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Thanks to RS who knows I enjoy watching old pictures!


The first picture of the Andromeda Galaxy in 1888 



The first known picture of the Taj Mahal. 1855 



The sonderkommando photographs taken secretly in 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.



At a segregated lunch counter in Tennessee, Elvis Presley is waiting for his bacon and eggs while a woman waits for her sandwich. she is not permitted to sit. 1956


A child is blinded by the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. 1945 



Kindergarten teacher Helen Hulick who was a witness to a burglary was given a five-day sentence and sent to jail for contempt only for wearing pants to court to give her testimony. Los Angeles, 1938



A French opium party in 1918 



The first photo of the USS enterprise model and the men who build it. 1965 



Onlookers reaction to the Challenger explosion. 1986 



Stripper in Clearwater, FLA showing the judge that her bikini briefs were too large for the undercover cops to arrest her for exposure. The case was dismissed.



Tom Baker working on a construction site in 1974 before being cast as the 4th incarnation of Doctor Who. 



Adolf Hitler tells a frostbitten soldier not to salute him (year unknown ) 



Anti miniskirt sentiment in New York. 1966 



Four-year-old Bill Clinton. 1950 



Dwight Eisenhower was the first US president to use a teleprompter in the 1952 presidential campaign. 


Schwarzenegger goes sledding with then president, George Bush, 1991 



Serena And Venus Williams posing for a picture with former president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in 1990 



106 years old woman guard her home in southern Armenia, 1990 



A 1930 photo from the statue of liberty’s torch 



Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to fly. 1910 



The David Hilton family did not want to show their poor house to friends back east, but they wanted to prove they own an organ. Nebraska, 1887 



The original voice cast of Peanuts 



A German child trying to sell his father’s Iron Cross for cigarettes, 1945 



The oldest known documented wheelie, 1936 



A child’s gas mask during WW2 



A possible photo of Confederate cadets during the civil war 



A young stud known as John Wayne 



Chuck Jones original rules for the Roadrunner and Coyote 



America mourns the Germans who died in the Hindenburg crash 



Tony Kiritsis holding Richard O Hall hostage with a shotgun during a live television broadcast, 1977 




Santa with a helmet delivering presents during the London Blitz, 1940 


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