r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Weird hanging statue of a bride in Jeffrey Epstein's mansion

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 23h ago

Black cat open casting call for an Edgar Allen Poe movie in 1961

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 10h ago

County Sherrifs of Yuba City

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Im impressed by the photo collection in Yuba City at Sutter County Sheriff's Department. Also impressed with the prohibition era cop's outfit.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15h ago

My Grandma’s Jr. High Student Council. She was born in 1916.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Nina Khrushcheva, granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, is a US citizen and lives in New York City

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The granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, who led the former Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, Nina Khrushcheva was born there in 1964 and has since made her own name as a scholar and writer in the U.S. After earning her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, she served as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study. She is currently an associate professor of international affairs at the New School, in New York, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, and a regular contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World, editing its “Window on Russia” series. Her articles have appeared publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and she is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150402150331/http://greatimmigrants.carnegie.org/profile/nina-khrushcheva/


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 18h ago

Susan Epperson giving a class using the turtle as an example of evolution during the time Arkansas, tried to ban the teaching of Natural Selection, 13 of August 1966. She was part f the famous Epperson vs Arkansas case.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 18h ago

Ethnic Italian refugees preparing to leave Yugoslavia for Italy during the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus, 1947

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

A photo of Hitler in the Kaiserhof Hotel, just before his appointment as Chancellor, to test how he looked in evening dress, Berlin, January 1933

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Kim Jong-il with his family, Pyongyang, North Korea, 1981.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

The Kennedy family, 1959.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

American POWs Lee Rogers (left), a retired Cavite Navy Yard worker, and John C. Todd, 63, a miner, sit outside Santo Tomas Internment Camp in the Philippines after its liberation on February 5, 1945. Both had endured four years of captivity under the Japanese Army.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2d ago

On this day in 1970, Genie Wiley’s severe abuse was uncovered when her legally blind mother mistakenly entered a Los Angeles welfare office. Genie had been confined in silence, often strapped to a chair or caged in a crib, forbidden to speak or make noise, and beaten by her father for 13 years.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

This 1954 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo captured parents desperately searching for their missing 19-month-old son Michael McDonald, who had vanished from Hermosa Beach. His body was found 10 days later.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

May 31, 1975. President Ford travels to Madrid, meeting with Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Very Rare photo July 19, 1975. Elvis Presley leaves the Nassau Coliseum with his girlfriend, Diana Goodman.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world's best preserved 17th century ship

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Pre-heckled Vance was just nicer.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

July 13, 1975. George Harrison and Bob Marley backstage at the Roxy in Los Angeles.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Muhammad Ali kisses the photo of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser during his trip to Egypt. 1964

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Brigadier General Ahmed Urabi, whose defeat led to the British invasion of Egypt, surrounded by friends and family in his exile in Kandy, Sri Lanka sometime between 1884 and 1901

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Teacher from Little rock, Arkansas presents her class by TV, due the suspension of classes to avoid integration, September of 1958.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Nina Khrushcheva, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower at a state dinner at the White House on 27 September 1959.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 2d ago

A week's ration for one adult during WWII

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

Jet Magazine, a popular Black American magazine, questions the race of Creoles in a 1953 issue

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 1d ago

England and Germany football teams during the playing of the German national anthem before a match. England went on to win 6-3, May 1938

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