RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS


Albert Einstein looking fabulous


Here's his report card! 1896 - highest marks in Algebra - physics - Geometry
lower marks in languages.


Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.


A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941.


Winston Churchill out for a swim. Typical swim suit of the day.


Elvis in the Army.


The first McDonalds. - buy em by the bag ---- on the sign.


The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.


Hitler in Paris


Google begins with 34 people here.


The construction of Disneyland


The 1912 World Series


Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.


British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.


A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.


Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945


The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940


The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.


Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right. - bell bottom pants - pink car - expensive shops,
nice threads. About 24 people out smiling --- looking hip for the day and not one woman has their face or head
covered.


Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.


Child laborers in 1880


The Beatles in 1957. George Harrison is 14, John Lennon is 16 and Paul McCartney 15.


Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil


Che Guevara


Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.



California lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Thousands of tree rings in these ancient trees each over
1000+ years old or even much older........


Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961


Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.


The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!


Young Bill Gates ---- & ----The Microsoft staff in 1978. 11 people - 2 women 5 beards


A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.


A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square.
He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching
from the right.


Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,
an event that helped spark World War I.


The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali


The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.


Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975. A future US President


Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907


New York's Times Square in 1911


Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship


Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884. A different world today.


Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.

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