This article showcases a collection of rare historical photos, many of which you have probably never seen before. These images offer a unique glimpse into moments from the past that aren’t often captured in traditional history books.
Whether it’s a well-known event seen from an uncommon angle, an intimate snapshot of a famous figure, or an everyday scene from a time long gone, these photos provide fresh insights and a deeper understanding of history.
Through these rarely-seen but unique images, this article will explore stories and moments in history that were previously overlooked or lost to time, giving us a new perspective on the world as it once was.
Actress Anita Ekberg meets Paparazzi outside of her house with a bow and arrow after being relentlessly followed by them all night. 1960.Man poses for a photo in-front of Soyuz rocket, (1980s), Baikonur, Kazakh SSRA worm vending-machine. 1957Showgirls play chess between shows at New York’s Latin Quarter Nightclub, 1958A demonstrator hitting the Berlin Wall in 1989 The Smallest House in Great Britain, also known as the Quay House, is a tourist attraction on the quay in Conwy, Wales.A US Air Force lieutenant is held captive by a young North Vietnamese soldier, 1967San Fernando Valley’s Satans Slaves Motorcycle Club before becoming Hells Angels. Circa 1970sPhotographer Otto Ludwig Bettmann captures the Grand Prix Monza in1966Henry Cabot Lodge, points the bugging device hidden in the Great SealA public urinal located in Paris,1875Tigers’ fans ‘celebrate’ the World Series victory. They defeated the San Diego Padres, 4 games to 1. Detroit,1984Annie Edson Taylor poses with her cat and the barrel she rode over Niagara Falls in 1901.Animal medical therapy in 1956A menorah stands on the windowsill of a Jewish home across from Nazi Party headquarters in Kiel, Germany in 1932.A Dutch athlete receives a portrait of Adolf Hitler as a sports prizeA French women welcomes an American soldier two days after liberation. Strasbourg, France, 22 November 1944.105mm shells from an allied bombardment all fired in a single day on German lines, 1916.A California National Guard soldier escorts a surfer out of Venice Beach, Los Angeles, after it is shut down to prevent rioting or any large gathering of rioters there during the 1992 Los Angeles riots May 2, 1992A view of the U.S. Capitol Building dome under construction in 1857Anti-Apartheid protesters sprayed with a water cannon shooting purple dye to mark the demonstrators for arrest. South Africa, 1989.A wheat field in the heart of Manhattan, 1982An anti-communist revolutionary holds a Molotov cocktail behind his back during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.After astronomical calculations and a 3-year wait for the right moment, photographer Leonardo Sens took this photoRenaissance Circus Trio, a group of acrobats performing a gravity-defying stunt atop the Rockefeller Center in New York City in the early 1930s.Confederate and Union soldiers shaking hands at a Battle of Gettysburg reunion 1913Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is attacked by States Rights Party member Jimmy Robinson as King tries to register at the Hotel Albert in Selma, Alabama, on January 18, 1965U.S. Marines holding scaled-up models of rifles at Camp Pendleton in October, 1956.A desert of fire Kuwait, 1991Woman jumping over 6 of her classmates, 1952.The first “photo” of Mars (1965). This image was hand-colored by NASA scientists using the raw image data from spacecraft Mariner 4.Ota Benga (1904-1906) — A Mbuti Pygmy, born in Congo Free State in 1885. He was sold to an American explorer for display at the 1904 World’s Fair. He was then housed in the Bronx Zoo primate house.Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange’s famous 1936 photo, holds up her likeness during an interview after her identity was made known, October 10, 1978A barge filled with Kherson watermelons on the Dnipro river, (1984), Kyiv, Ukrainian SSRWalt Disney, 1906, with his sister Ruth.Protestors in May 1978 after a young Bangladeshi textile worker called Altab Ali was murdered in east London. It was a racially motivated killing.November 1966, stagnant air trapped toxic smog over New York City for three days, killing 168 people.Bryn Owen aged 17 with his Vespa scooter, which has 34 mirrors and 81 lights on the front and back, all bought with his pocket money, Leicestershire, England. 1983.Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, last war chief of the Crow Nation. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII. He led a raid against a German position, disarming them and taking them prisoner. He then stole their horses. He died in 2016, aged 102.Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins born in Brighton, 1908.
