Secret Historical Photos You Were Never Supposed to See

PART 2:

 Judy Garland’s screen test for The Wizard of Oz at age 16, 1938. Garland was shunned by co-stars on set, befriended only by the Wicked Witch actress. This 393-year-old Greenland shark is the oldest known vertebrate born around 1627. Paul Alexander dies at 78 after spending 70 years in an iron lung due to polio.

 Barack and Michelle Obama with newborn Malia in their living room. 1998  Theodore Roosevelt at age 19 during his freshman year at Harvard 1877.  Allison Hayes poses in a classic photo from the 1950s.  Young George Clooney photographed with his family. 1968.  Amu who avoided bathing for 60 years dies shortly after finally washing.

French knife grinders lay on their stomachs to work known as yellow bellies. 1902  Chicago as it appeared 129 years ago.  University of North Texas and Montana shown 150 years apart.  John Wayne at age 23, photographed in 1930. Sidebyside comparison of early Los Angeles and the year 2001. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.

 rests after rowing with Harvard crew. 1930s chicken-shaped church stands out in Indonesia.  Jimmy Carter working on his peanut farm before presidency 1960.  chart listing the best-selling female music artists of all time.  Robert Downey Jr. at the Academy Awards 1993.  Daylight reveals the destruction from the Baltimore Bridge collapse.

 13-year-old Sher arrested in 1959 for taking her mother’s car. Cramped interior view of a World War II ball turret.  Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek pictured together in the 1990s. Dazzle camouflage briefly used to confuse enemy ships.  Waqen and River Phoenix with their family. 1983.  The statue of unity in India is the tallest statue in the world at 182 m.

 The Ark Light Theater shown 26 years apart.  The Dresden CEX, written in Mayan glyphs, is one of four surviving pre-Colombian books.  Cats beg for milk on a farm, photographed by Nat Fineman for Life magazine, 1954. Dad impresses his young daughter with a skillful move in Melbourne, 1940. a 38-year-old scientist who helped shape global fate in the 1940s.

 LAPD’s female trainees practice with revolvers for the first time. 1948  models of American Gothic pose beside the famous painting. 1942  HMS King George V in dock after slicing HMS Punjabi in half 1942  General Charles de Gaulle’s daughter Anne who had Down syndrome called him papa  watermelon eating champion At Brooklyn’s Fourth of July celebration, 1935,  Grateful Sheep nuzzles the dog that saved them from a wolf attack.

Angelina Jolie, photographed as a teen in 1990.  Policeman gives a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini. 1957  Ruth Graves Wakefield created the chocolate chip cookie in 1938.  In the 1960s, Istanbul drunk baskets were used to carry intoxicated patrons home. Young Christopher Walkan looks like Scarlett Johansson.

Feeling hung over comes from cheap pub sleeping ropes in the 19th century.  George Washington’s folding trunk bed from the Revolutionary War.  Albert Einstein teaches physics at Lincoln University, a black college, 1946.  1775. The grand staircase aboard the RMS Titanic.  Marie Cur’s tomb is lined with lead due to radiation from her remains.

Sobaoodle delivery man in Tokyo bikes to customers 1935.  American Airlines flight attendant poses in uniform. 1967.  Young soldier hugs his mother before leaving for World War I, 1917. Princess Diana wears her famous revenge dress. The night Charles Confessed, 1994. Same man, house, and car photographed 50 years apart.

 Brooklyn Dodgers fans protest the team’s decisions. 1940.  British woman calmly sips tea after London bombing raid 1944.  Gravestone of George John wrongly executed in Arizona. Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller on their wedding day, 1956. Heaven’s Gate, a stunning natural arch in Chan Mountain, China.

a coal miner memorial for his canary, little Joe, who died in 1875.  Sorvagatan appears to hover above the ocean in the Pharaoh Islands.  The old London Bridge was once Europe’s longest inhabited bridge.  So, Poland’s entire population lives along a single street.  The 3,270-year-old Hoveve amber cup carved from a single Baltic amber piece.

Ecstatic customer celebrates the release of Windows 95.  Gas prices shown from decades past.  Young Marine private waits on the beach during Daang Landing, Vietnam, 1965.  Inside the Simpsons Writer Room, 1992,  two lifelong friends remain close since their World War II service. Billy and Benny McCra, world’s heaviest twins, weigh 742 and 723 lbs.

 1978,  Brittany Murphy, photographed early in her career, 1998.  Enzo Ferrari photographed in the 1920s.  Bruce Lee practices intense training drills in the mid 1960s.  Point Lookout in Tennessee captured during the 1880s. Fred Gwyn served as a Navy radio man before becoming Herman Monster in 1964.

 Robert Wadllo, tallest man in history, stood at 8′ 11 in.  A snow leopard hides in plain sight. Can you spot it? Two girls ride sheep at full speed in Cornwall, England, 1969.  The Merchesen meteorite is the oldest material ever found on Earth, 7 billion years old. Teachers enjoy spring break together in a candid moment.

 Leonardo da Vinci designed this spiral staircase in 1516.  Serena, a snow lady sculpture created in winter fun.  Even famous composers once struggled to draw a proper treble cleft. A llama appears in a vintage Times Square photo 1957.  The Sweet Track, a 5,830year-old Neolithic timber walkway in Somerset, England.

 Steven Hawking marries Jane Wild in 1965.  An orangutan walks through the ruins of its former rainforest.  A 440 lb blue whale heart, one of the largest ever recorded.  Children head to class in New York’s Lower East Side, 1886.  Wheelchair made for Holy Roman Empress Elizabeth Christine, 18th century.

 Windswept trees bend permanently along New Zealand’s rugged coast.  The Kamakuna skylight in Hawaii. A lava formation nicknamed the portal to hell. BF109’s camouflage blends seamlessly into the desert. North Africa World War II.  Payment list shows how much artists earned at Woodstock. 1969.

 Robert Dairo at age 80 with his 10-month-old daughter. Closeup of penguin feathers reveals natural insulation. Barack Obama with his mother in the 1980s.  New Year’s Eve celebrations in the 1920s.  Steve Bushi, Adam Sandler, and Brendan Fraser together in 1995. Ringing in the new year, 1981 style.

A couple strolls through New York City on a spring day, 1915. Harrison O’Keeen survived three days in a sunken tugboat off Nigeria’s coast before being rescued. Princess Anne photographed at age 19 in 1969.  Melinda Louu Wendy Thomas inspired the name and logo of Wendy’s, founded by her father in 1969. Cats wait patiently for fishermen to return.

 1970s  New Year’s Eve celebration captured in 1960.  American actor Charles Bronson captured in 1969. Three friends posed together in Brooklyn during the 1940s.  Fran Dresser poses stylishly in 1997.  A farm family shares dinner in Tennessee. 1940  mug shots of iconic singers from 1938 to 1986.

 British and German soldiers share a Christmas truce on the battlefield. 1914, Sharon Tate displays baby clothes she bought in London. 1969,  children play in New York’s Lower East Side. 1963  35-year-old Jean Hackman in a 1965 portrait.  Gene Hackman at age 94.  David Hensley, crippled by polio, wearing leg braces. 1948.

Two Armenian women posing with rifles before battle. 1895. Train travel in the 1890s.  First king of Saudi Arabia, Iban Saud, early 1950s. Survivors of the Titanic disaster. A stylish family outing. 1946.  The massive cables supporting the Golden

Gate Bridge. Net Fix and Chill 1912. Hong Kong in the 1920s. An absuroki man on horseback. 1908. Maud Wagner, the first female professional tattoo artist in the US. Formal portraits rarely featured smiles. 1912.

The Oval Office without furniture. The Puddle Jumper, 1934. What a US dollar bill looked like in 1917. The four boys jamming 1928. King Tut’s tomb. Shortly after its discovery in 1922, New York City after a snowstorm, 1888. Early morning wakeup calls. Knocking on

windows before alarm clocks. Miss perfect posture contest. Winners at a chiropractor’s convention. 1956. Thomas Weders. The man with the largest nose in history. 7.5 in photographer capturing the streets of London 1929.  Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration in 1865. Can you spot him? Carving the eye of Thomas Jefferson.

Mount Rushmore. 1936. Valentine Tapley, who never cut his beard again after 1896.  A woman standing while riding her motorcycle. 1920s. The real outfits worn by doctors treating plague patients in the 1600s. Friends having a picnic 137 years ago. A rare view of the Statue of Liberty’s scalp from the torch.

Three Sisters Mounting Horses 1914. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC as it looked in 1907. Hershey factory workers wrapping chocolates by hand. 1937 inside the first class lounge on the Titanic. Victorian women who never cut their hair. 1860 to 1900. A circus strong woman balancing a piano on her chest. 1920.

 Two girls posing with their snow fort. 1910. A woman charging her electric car in her garage. 1912. Three women in Marshall, Texas, 1899. A woman riding an early scooter. 1916. Original photo of the discovery of the tomb of Tuten Kammoon. 1922. A rare photo of three-year-old Albert

Einstein. A couple of Victorian travelers. 1890s. In 1907, Annette Kellerman was arrested for wearing this bathing suit. Postwoman from the 1910s. Gay Jewel declared the world’s heaviest man in 1899. A man trying Coca-Cola for the first time. France, 1950. The nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan.

A view from the ground. Little girl getting water at the farm, Maine, 1942.  Britain’s oldest door, built nearly 1,000 years ago in the 1150s. Going to the beach with style, 1915. Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America winner in 1921. Welsh woman washing her mineworking husband, 1931. A portrait of male lovers 1850 to 1950

when homosexuality was illegal. An angry kangaroo knocks out a woman trying to take its photo. 1960s. Do your bit. Skate to work. Save gas. New York City. 1940s. Serbian soldier sleeps beside his father. 1915. The night prohibition ended. December 5th, 1933.  Young girl with prosthetic legs, England, 1890 to 1910.

Hans Langa, a German World War I veteran in 1998. A teenager at an Elvis Presley concert. April 6th, 1957.  A typical college dorm room. in the 1910s. New York City subway system, 1980. A Stroll in the Park, 1937. Enoch man teaching a boy how to shoot. Circa 1920.

Two boys sharing their cultures. Couples in a Bar, Pittsburgh, 1959. Anatoli Golimfki, decorated Soviet veteran who lost his legs. 1989 Charles SL Baker and his assistant demonstrating a heating radiator system 1906. A kiss in St. Ral Park, circa 1974.  Learning to ride a bicycle. 1961. 

A French girl kissing an American soldier on Valentine’s Day 1945. New York children sleeping on the fire escape to stay cool at night. The Statue of Liberty in Paris before its journey to New York. A rare photo of a 1970s remote control. Bruce Lee performing a two-finger one-armed push-up. circa 1970s Charlie Chaplan meets deafb blind author Helen Keller 1919

Charles Trip and Eli Bowen riding a tandem bicycle 1890s The last known photo of the Titanic aloat. April 12th, 1912. Roller skating. 1930s. the world’s largest horse in 1930. A father helping his son feed a giraffe at the London Zoo. The violin of Wallace Hartley, band

leader on the Titanic. Little Big Man from the Netherlands, 1904.  The world’s oldest surviving photograph taken by Nissaphor Niea in 1827. Hong Kong in the 1950s. The Spy wine bottle. The oldest known bottle of wine on Earth. Children playing on a cart in Harlem, New York. 1920s. How the presidents on Mount Rushmore

were originally planned to look. The Elegance on the Streets of New York City, 1928. Hugo Gernsbach, inventor of Teleglasses. Albert Einstein’s desk on the day he died. The Italian royal family. 1905. The Eiffel Tower under construction. Teen Boy covering a girl’s eyes. 1940s

Mount Rushmore before the presidential faces were carved. James Stewart enjoying a beach. Read with Valerie Varda. Queen Elizabeth II at 18 years old. Robert Earl Hughes, the heaviest person on record at 1,71 lb, 1926 to 1958. The Great Sphinx of Giza with a tail. A newly built telephone tower in Sweden, 1886.

Covered in wires. Dance marathons were so grueling people fell asleep standing up. The inside of a quarter. What it really looks like. California Alligator Farm, where kids were encouraged to get up close. First class travel on an airplane in the 1950s. The average polar bear’s size compared to a human. The world’s thinnest man and the world’s

fattest man in the 1800s. A young Teddy Roosevelt seen in the seconds story window. One of the few known photos of Vincent Van Gogh shown here at age 20. Maryanne Beavenon, dubbed the world’s ugliest woman in 1920. Ice mountains on Pluto captured by NASA’s New Horizon’s probe. The evolution of women’s bathing suits, 1875 to 1927.

The old Cincinnati Library before its demolition, 1874 to 1955. 1950s AllWomen’s Hot Rod Club in Kansas City. Roland, a 4,000 lb elephant seal photographed in 1930. A couple riding a Malver Star, a breast tandem bicycle in the 1930s. Two girls dancing in the streets of London. 1954.  A man begging for his wife’s forgiveness in divorce court. 1946.

 A homecoming prisoner in Vienna, Austria. Circa 1946. Winter fun in the old days.  The man in the middle, a college-aged Richard Nixon, Neil Armstrong’s Gemini 8 space capsule after landing in the Pacific Ocean. The Times building under construction in 1903, now the heart of Times Square. Harriet Tubman in her old age.

The original Michelin man design was absolutely terrifying. competitors at the 1980 Space Invaders World Championship. the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction. The first ever photograph of the moon. Galileo’s phases of the moon drawings from 1610. A game of unicycle basketball in Harlem, circa 1960s.

Sophia Lauren, circa 1955.  Night fishing 1948. An engineer wiring a primitive IBM computer. 1958. Two ladies riding in a Lawson’s motor wheel. 1902.  Children on a spiral staircase. 1965. Couple in a Model T Ford at Balanced Rock. 1920s.

Portrait of an interesting hairstyle. 1894. World War I. Soldiers paying tribute. The 1944 eruption of Mount Vuvius Vincent Van Go’s painting palette. Female Motorcycle Officers, Los Angeles, 1927. First class air travel in the 1960s.

Sisters Florence and Susie Frimouth, 1921. Robert Wadllo, the tallest man who ever lived. A happy family taking home their book hall. 1940 the end of the 13,000mi Great Wall of China. A beautiful couple in Venice, 1890s. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, the most expensive ever sold.

Montreal playgrounds were on another level. 1950s. The interior of an airplane in 1925. Brazilian girl refusing to shake hands with Joan Figeredo. 1979. Marilyn Monroe and a Funhouse Mirror, 1950. Queen Jennipel, the Last Queen of Mongolia, 1920. Don’t mess with Granny. Early history. How did you think all these pictures

were taken? New York City construction workers. A small girl balancing on her mother’s hand. Mid 1900s. School girls in gas masks. World War II. Portrait of Arctic explorer Peter Freen and his wife. 1947. Anti-drinking public service announcement early 1900s. Aerial photography in Edinburgh, circa

1920.

 

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