Rare Historical Photos You’ve Probably Never Seen

A random but poignant soldier in Vietnam, 1965.

A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to a co-worker after he contacted a high voltage wire in 1967.

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The priest and the dying soldier, 1962

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Painting the Eiffel Tower, 1932.

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A grotto in an iceberg seen during the British Antarctic Expedition, January 5, 1911.

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Einstein at Nassau Point, Long Island, New York in the summer of 1939.

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This Austrian boy got a new pair of shoes in World War II.

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Sweden switched to driving on the right side of the road in 1967. This was the result on the first morning.

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He stood alone, refusing to join the Nazi salute in 1936.

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Helen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood in 1919.

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