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50+ Must-See Moments In History

Flappers pose with a car, 1920s.

 

Portrait of a young girl, 1863.

 

A young girl rides her tricycle, 1927.

 

Two sisters pose for a photo, 1950s.

 

Los Angeles drive-in, 1932.

 

Taking a joyride in the 1920s.

 

Posing for a photo with a car, c. 1920.

 

Jack’s Saloon in Arkansas, 1935

 

New Year’s Eve 1904

 

Beach day, 1930s

 

A boy’s first television experience, 1948.

 

A mom and her daughter, c. 1905.

 

An old school band

 

A young couple, 1920s

 

Two best friends c. 1925.

 

High school girls in auto mechanics class, 1927.

 

A family has a picnic on the side of the road, c. 1915.

 

Friends pose for a photo, 1920s

 

1920s New York

 

Iconic 1970s haircuts

 

A young boy and his cat.

 

Georgia Holt, Cher’s mother, c.1950s

 

Sorority sisters, University of Texas, 1944

 

Bob Marley’s wedding day, 1966.

 

Hippies hitchhiking.

 

1900s military bicycle with spring wheels.

 

A teenager attends an Elvis Presley concert 1957.

Wyatt Earp poses for a photo at his home in Los Angeles, 1927.

 

Two Boys in London, c. 1902.

 

Opening ceremonies of the Moscow Olympics 1980.

 

Train in Syracuse, NY, 1936.

 

Cats wait for the fisherman to return, Istanbul, 1970s

 

Drinking a glass of Belgian beer, 1971

 

An Inuit girl with her dog, 1949.

 

Riding a rocket scooter. 1931

 

Jean Bugatti poses with his Bugatti Royale, one of seven built, 1932.

 

A young couple in 1955.

 

Electric bathtub, 1910.

 

Nellie and Annie Lyons

 

Albert Einstein as a boy, 1884.

 

B-17 gunner.

 

Learning to swim, 1920s.

 

Miners in Brazil, 1980s

 

Taking a phone call.

 

1895 Crescent haircut.

 

Boeing 747 – Economy seats in 1970.

 

The future Beatles in 1957. George is 14, John is 16 and Paul is 15.

 

The shark from Jaws.

 

The last four couple of a Chicago dance marathon, 1930s.

 

One of the last known photos of the RMS Titanic, 1912.

 

A farmer’s son plays on one of the large soil drifts of the “Dust Bowl,” 1936.

 

A young woman operates a compressed-air grinder during WW2

 

A ghostly image of a boat from 1900.

 

A man poses on the first cables during construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1935

 

The Los Angeles Public Library Bookmobile program for the sick, 1928.

 

A mailman delivers Christmas mail. Chicago, USA, 1929.

 

Women drink coffee at a cafe, Paris, 1925.

 

Women have tea, New Zealand, 1890.

 

The first known documented wheelie, 1936.

 

America’s first female traffic cop, 1918

 

Talking on a hand crank telephone, 1900s.

 

A miners’ boardinghouse, California, 1860s.

 

Former coal miner, now blind, and his son. Washington County, Missouri, 1939.

 

A family and their newly-built log cabin, Kentucky, 1914.

 

Drunk women fighting on a rooftop. London, 1902.

 

Combine driver threshing oats, 1940.

 

A Native American man sends smoke signals in Montana, June 1909.

 

A Barbershop, 1869.

 

A couple with their Buick, California, 1930.

 

James and Amelia, Texas, 1867.

 

Portrait of a man in a wheelchair taken in front of Western Hotel, California, July 4, 1889.

 

Two young women delivering ice, 1918.

 

Kids share a laugh in Nebraska, 1910.

 

A Coke delivery truck, Knoxville, 1909.

 

A Chippewa Indian named John Smith who lived in the woods near Cass Lake, Minnesota claimed to be 137 years old before he died in 1922. Photo taken in 1915

 

A man changes a Model T Coupe’s flat tire, 1927.

 

Two men from the early 1900s. Lincoln Nebraska

 

Two kids go fishing, texas, 1925.

 

A bike club, 1885.

 

Facade of department store with five floors covered in coats.

 

Check out the ingredients of a cough syrup manufactured in Baltimore back in 1888

 

A saloon that gave children their own child-size beers, Wisconsin, 1890.

 

Portrait of a young grumpy girl, 1850s

 

Easter, 1926

 

Cow shoes used by Moonshiners during Prohibition.

 

Willard Scott, the original Ronald McDonald, 1963.

 

Kids posing with largest log cabin in Portland, Oregon, USA, 1938. It was built in 1905 and later burned down In 1964.

 

The Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City

 

Photo of the train wreck at Montparnasse Station in Paris, France, 1895.

 

Brighton Beach life guard, New York, 1906.

 

A French man tries Coca-Cola for the first time in 1950.

 

Giant snowman, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1963.

 

A Lithuanian book smuggler, 1800s.

 

A napping kitty, 1930. Photo by Alton Blackington.

 

Anne Frank outside her father’s company, 1935.

 

Inuit mother and her child, Alaska, 1927.

 

Marilyn Monroe performs onstage during the Korean War, 1954.

 

Tourists have tea on top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, 1938.

 

A young Kim Jung-Un, 1990s.

 

Lacemakers in France, 1920.

 

Jimmy Carter with his sons on his peanut farm, 1960.

 

Kids play on piled-up mattresses, England, 1981.

 

Young Stalin in Prison, 1910.

 

Children forced to pray at a residential school, Canada.

 

A British blacksmith takes the leg irons off a slave, 1907.

 

A young Serbian soldier naps with his visiting father at the front line, 1914/1915.

 

The “Happiest Man in China,” 1901.

 

The wreck of U-118, a German U-boat , 1919.

 

A Japanese battleship serving as one of the target ships during atomic testing at Bikini Atoll in 1946.

 

Alfred Hitchcock and MGM’s Leo the Lion, 1958.

 

Franco and Kissinger, 1973.

 

Babies sleep outside in Moscow, 1958. This practice is thought to boost their immune system.

 

A woman cuts her birthday cake in Iran, 1973

 

Into the Jaws of Death, 6th of June, 1944

 

New Yorkers stop to watch Seinfeld’s finale, Times Square, 1998 
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