30 rare and interesting historical photographs (31 photos)

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1. Prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp greet their liberators (Germany, April 1945)



2. A girl from the Ouled Nail tribe in Algeria, photographed by Rudolf Lehnert in 1904



3. May 3, 1960 Otto Frank (Anne Frank's father) stands in the annex where he and his family hid during World War II. Until they were found and arrested by the Gestapo in 1944



4. Six-year-old Anne Frank with a jump rope in her hands next to her friend Sanne Ledermann. Amsterdam, 1935



5. Studio portrait of Hattie Tom, a young Chiricahua Apache woman, taken at the United States Indian Convention as part of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, 1898.



6. A supporter of men's clothing reform walks along the Strand in London. The Men's Dress Reform Party was formed during the interwar years in Britain, 1930.



7. Physicists and Nobel Prize winners Marie Curie and Pierre Curie shortly after their wedding. France, 1895



8. British military equipment disguised as elephants, India, World War II



9. Punk Girl, London, 1979



10. Conductors pass breakfast tea between carriages on a train from Peshawar to Lahore, 1983. Photography by Steve McCurry



11. Last known photograph of a Barbary lion before its supposed disappearance, taken in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa in 1925 by Marcelin Flandrin



12. Oldreive's New Tricycle or New Iron Horse, 1882



13. British athlete Percy Hodge (Olympic champion in the 3000 m steeplechase in 1920) demonstrates a flawless jump over the hurdle



14. Lucille Ball, once called the best pair of legs on Broadway, in a 1930s publicity shot as a blonde



15. Champagne inspector wearing a special mask to protect against an accidental bottle explosion, California, 1933.



16. Mother and son in a photograph taken in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland. The son who sang the ballads holds a printed poem in his hand. 1890



17. Two Kashmiri giants pose with American photographer James Rickalton, 1903. The height of one of the giants was 2 m 36 cm, and the other was 2 m 24 cm



18. Children having fun with a toy guillotine, France, 1959.



19. Ultralight horse-drawn car, Paris, 1943



20. A photograph from Thomas Annan’s series of photographs, “The Old Lanes and Streets of Glasgow,” 1868.



21. Charles Godefroy flies through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The height of the opening is 29.42 m, the width is 14.62 m. The wingspan of the aircraft is 9 m, 1919.



22. G.o.e Herbert Tea & Dining Rooms, Chipping Norton, England. 1910



23. Puritanical demonstration against too revealing swimsuits on the beach in Florida, USA, 1985.



24. A piglet is treated for a skin disease with sunbathing. The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, Ilford, UK. 1938



25. New York subway passengers without newspapers during a newspaper strike in the city, 1953.



26. Iron Man of the past in a diving suit. The suit was also called “Iron Man”. It had electrical charging and pressure protection systems. New York, 1907



27. Meeting of two Mickey Mouses on a Parisian street in the early 1930s



28. Clown on lunch break



29. Coffin beds at the Salvation Army shelter in London. This is one of the first homeless shelters, aka the "Four Penny Coffin", circa 1900.



30. Orthopedist Lewis Sayre treats scoliosis by checking the curvature of the spine with his machine, 1870s.