RARE Historic Photos #2: Some Have Never Been Seen Before!

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  1. train222

    train222 Member

    Hello Everyone,

    As usual, I was surfing the net again and ran accross these Amazing! RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS...

    Look carefully at each picture.

    There are some you may have never seen before.
    Some of these are well over 100 years old..

    Enjoy your stay and thanks for looking...

    Stu



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    Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.


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


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    Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.


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


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    Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.


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    California lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Thousands of tree rings in these ancient trees each over 1000+ years old or even much older..
    such a shame - irreplaceable giants- national park treasures all gone but a few - what kind of men would do such a thing for over 100 years ---
    Destroy something they cannot ever fix or replace for 2000 years?
    It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1200–1800 years or more. ...An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood forest has been cut In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres(8,100 acres by... 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged.


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    Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,


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    The 1912 World Series.


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


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    Elvis in the Army.


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


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    Child laborers in 1880.


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    New York's Times Square in 1911.


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    Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil.


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    Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.


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    Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.


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    The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.


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    The construction of Disneyland.


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    Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.
     
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