29 Photos Taken By People Who Didn't Know They Were Recording History
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They say a photo is worth a thousand words, and these historic photos prove it. Looking at each one is like stepping back in time to another world.
1. Two men in a grotto of an iceberg during the British Antarctic Expedition in January 1911.
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2. Painting of The Eiffel Tower in 1932
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3. The first underground train journey in London in 1862.
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4. The graves of a Protestant man and her Catholic wife in Holland in 1888.
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5. Nikola Tesla in his lab with the magnifying transmitter.
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6. Customers at a music store in London in 1955.
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7. Workers painting the Brooklyn Bridge in 1914.
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8. The last known photo of the Titanic above water in 1912.
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9. Organizers attempt to physical remove Katherine Switzer from the Boston Marathon in 1967.
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10. Salvador Dali and Raquel Welch after he finishes his famous portrait of her in 1965.
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11. Woman with a gas-resistant baby carriage in England in 1938.
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12. Elvis Presley in the Army in 1958.
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13. Animals used as medical therapy in 1956.
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14. Annette Kellerman wears a fitted one-piece bathing suit in 1907. She was arrested for indecency.
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15. A 106-year-old woman guards her home in Armenia in 1990.
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16. Baby placed in a cage outside the window of an apartment to ensure it gets enough sunlight in 1937.
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17. Giant crowd converges for the first Woodstock in 1969.
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18. Disneyland employees in the cafeteria in 1961.
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19. Unidentified Vietnam solider in 1965.
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20. A man measuring bathing suits on women to see if they would be fined in the 1920's.
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21. An Austrian boy gets a new pair of shoes during WWII
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22. First morning in Sweden after they changed from driving on the left side of the road to the right side in 1967.
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23. One man refuses to perform a Nazi salute in 1936.
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24. A utility worker gives a co-worker mouth-to-mouth after he made contact with a high voltage wire in 1967.
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25. Two women deliver ice in 1918.
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26. Hannah Stilley, photographed in 1840. Being born in 1746, Stilley is probably the earliest born person ever photographed.
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27. The Beatles play for a crowd of just 18 people in December of 1961, a year and a half before they would become superstars.
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28. The Unbroken Seal on King Tut's tomb in 1922. Before then, it had gone 3,245 years untouched.
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29. Albert Einstein summers in Nassau Point, Long Island in 1939.
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