18 rare photos from the past that tell entertaining stories (18 photos)

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, we cannot go to past and witness important historical events. But we can see retro photos that tell more than a textbook stories. Take a look!





People having a picnic on a deserted highway in the Netherlands during the oil embargo on November 4, 1973



Department of radiology of Dr. Maxim Menard in the hospital Cochin in Paris, circa 1914 Mendard later lost his finger due to side effects from working with an x-ray machine



A living child was found in Chernobyl, 1986



Untouched seal from Tutankhamun's tomb after 3,245 years, 1922



Bobbi Gibb, female mixed marathon pioneer, organizers try to stop the race from finishing, 1966



Behind the scenes of The Godfather, 1972



Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on a train at Euston station en route to Bangor, August 5, 1967



The Great Wall of China before restoration, 1912



The first well-preserved carcass of a woolly mammoth, discovered in northeastern Siberia in 1977. He died about 40 000 years ago



Opium party, France, 1918



Shepherd with children in Khanalig, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, 1970



Contestants in the Miss Beautiful Eyes pageant in Florida wearing masks to get their eyes appreciated, 1930



Titanic survivors in a lifeboat, 1912



Woman and her slaves, Brazil, 1860



The first ever underwater photograph by French photographer Louis Boutan, 1893



Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, pioneer of hand-to-hand and bayonet training, United States Marine Corps, 1943



Test pilot George Aird escapes shortly before his plane crashes, 1962