13 rare historical photographs that tell fascinating stories (14 photos)

Historical photographs are valuable because each of them contains an event, incident, or even an entire era. Now you can take a million pictures per second, whereas previously you had to raise a significant amount of money and get yourself on a list to book an appointment with a photographer. And this is not counting the fact that to get a good picture you often had to spend several hours on modeling. Check out these rare and entertaining retro shots.





1. Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip dance to a country beat, Ottawa, Canada, 1951



2. A railway operator poses on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russian Empire, 1910.





3. Nikita Khrushchev with his grandchildren and daughter-in-law go to the store, USSR, sixties



4. Future Patriarch Kirill at a reception with psychic Juna Davitashvili, nineties



5. Ernesto Che Guevara driving an American car with his second wife Aleida March on their wedding day in Havana, 1959



6. Stonehenge, 1897



7. Fidel Castro plays baseball, 1959, Havana



8. Yuri Gagarin at the Krasnomaysk glass factory, 1963



9. NASA's first female astronaut candidates, 1978



10. A French woman serves a British soldier a cup of hot tea, Normandy, 1944



11. Boy with a stroller at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 1947



12. Partially excavated Great Sphinx, 1878



13. Swiss village of Grindelwald, 1900