27 Interesting Vintage Photographs
Peter Pizagalli
Published
11/30/2014
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Pop Culture
Look back in time with this collection of photographs from the past.
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A movie theater, 1921 -
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The Dalai Lama at age two. 1937 -
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1924 Ringling Brothers and Barnun Bailey Circus of Freaks -
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A 15 kiloton nuclear weapon detonates about 10 km from the cannon it was fired from, Nevada Test Site, May 1953 -
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The roaring 20s -
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An airgunner stands before his B24 bomber wearing what it took to survive at 25,000ft over Germany in 1943-45 -
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US Government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself 1940s -
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Bandits Roost off Mulberry Street, New York City, 1887 The opening part of this scene from Gangs of New York was based off of this photo -
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Colorized NYC Lower East Side 1890s -
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Dissection room at a medical school in Bordeaux, France. Circa 1890 -
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"Football team. Circa 1895-1910 -
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American soldier inspects German loot stored in a church at Elligen, Germany, April 24, 1945 -
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Emperor Meiji in full court dress, 1872 -
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Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. More than likely the earliest born individual captured on film -
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Inside the old New York City Metropolitan Opera House, 1937 -
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LAPD Officers went undercover and dressed up as women to catch a purse snatcher in 1960 -
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Citizen Kane premiere, 1941 -
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Marilyn Monroe tries to go shopping while fans and media watch, 1957 -
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Ku Klux Klan at the carnival in Canon City, 1925 -
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Suburbia move-in day 1950s -
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Surreal picture of a Zeppelin under construction, ca. 1935 -
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A man standing atop a mountain of bison skulls that are about to be ground up into fertilizer 1870s -
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The red light district in Seoul, Korea, marked as off limits to American G.Is, 1945 -
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USCGC Spencer hits the German submarine U-175, 1943 -
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Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japan, October 12th, 1960
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