These 42 Rare Pictures Have Captured Overwhelming Moments Which History Somehow Missed!

History.

We know what we see, we read what we see, and we believe what we hear. But maybe not everything is true because the books are written by those who win. With the advent of camera technology, one could capture the other side of the story in the most hauntingly piercing way and history of the world now had two sides to learn about.

Here are a few rare pictures from the pages of the history of the world that you may not have encountered before.

1. Dorothy Counts, the first black girl to attend an all-white school being teased and taunted by her white male peers at Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957

 

2. Nikola Tesla in his laboratory with his ‘Magnifying Transmitter’

 

3. Austrian boy at receiving shoes during WWII

 

4. Race organizers trying to stop the first woman to finish a marathon, Katherine Switzer from participating in the Boston Marathon, 1967

 

5. Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train, 1945

 

6. A lone man not hailing Hitler, 1936

 

7. Sweden shifts from left to right for driving for the first time (morning), 1967

 

8. Job hunting in 1930s

 

9. German soldiers reacting to footage of concentration camps, 1945

 

10. Parents from West Berlin showing children to their grandparents who reside on the eastern side, 1961

 

11. Mafia boss, Joe Masseria lying dead on a Brooklyn restaurant floor with an Ace of Spades in his hand, 1931

 

12. A lesbian couple in Paris, 1932

 

13. The Statue Of Liberty under construction in Paris, 1884

 

14. The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn McHale jumped to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947

 

15. The remains of astronaut Vladimir Komarov, the man who fell from Space, 1967

 

16. A mother shows a returning prisoner of war, the picture of her son, 1947

 

17. Hats in New York, 1930

 

18. Frida Kahlo dressed as a boy, 1924

 

19. A wounded combat dog in Orote peninsula, 1944

 

20. A Scottish bagpiper in a kilt in the middle of a battlefield in WWI

 

21. Mona Lisa back at Louvre after WWII

 

22. Titanic survivors boarding the Carpathia, 1912

 

23. A rare shot of a young Winston Churchill, 1895

 

24. Eiffel Tower during Nazi occupation of Paris, 1940

 

25. Men posing in front of Lynch’s Slave Market, Missouri, 1852

 

 

26. Finalizing the “Fat Man” atomic bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. On it’s nose it has stenciled the acronym “Jancfu”-Joint-Army-Navy-Civilian F*** Up

 

27. Painting the Eiffel Tower, 1932

 

28. Robert Williams Wood, Max Planck and Albert Einstein at the Physical Society in Berlin, 1931

 

29. First bananas in Norway, 1905

 

30. Bidding for the 12 acres of sand dunes which will become later Tel Aviv, 1909

 

31. Marilyn Monroe filming her iconic scene in the Sever Year Itch. This shot was taken in New York in front a large crowd of bystanders and press to create the hype, 1954

 

32. Bob Dylan and Keith Richards with Mick Jagger at his birthday party, 1972

 

33. Hungarian Jews being selected to be sent to the gas chambers in Auschwitz, 1944

 

34. Last public execution with a Guillotine, 1939

 

 

35. Making of Hoover Dam, 1934

 

36. Eduard Bloch, The physician of the Hitler Family, in his office, a “Noble Jew”, 1938

 

37. Japanese Zaikaku Carrie Ship Crew giving the last Banzai cheer before it sank, 1944

 

38. Vladimir Lenin’s last photo, had suffered three heart attacks till then and by the time was compltely mute, 1923

 

39. An Austrian Jewish woman sitting on a bench marked “Only For Jews”, concealing her face, 1938

 

40. The Gadget – The first atomic bomb, 1945

 

41. Young Hitler cheering the start of WWI, 1914

 

42. A German child meets her father, a WWII soldier, the first time since she was 1 year old, 1956

History is generally the account of those who win, but pictures are the account of the truth.

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