The camera is one of the most useful inventions in history. Because of it, a lot of the most important events that colored people’s lives, whether happy or grim, have been documented. Through photography, people’s memories, regardless of how big or small, were captured and stored forever in archives that we can now see for ourselves.
Below are rare historical photos that will make you wonder about the celebrities who knew each other way back then or will leave you emotional over the events that shaped our history.
1. The Beatles Prior to Their Legendary Abbey Road Photo
2. William Harley and Arthur Davidson (Circa 1914)
3. Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan – 1992
4. Bill Gates‘ 1977 Mugshot for Driving Without a License
5. Robin Williams in a Cheerleading Squad in 1980
6. The First Car Factory in the United States (Ford – 1926)
7. A 1925 Photo of Barcelona’s Camp Nou Stadium
8. A 1900 Photo of Kids in Creepy “Halloween People” Costumes
9. The Streets of Chicago in 1967
10. A 1923 Boxing Event at the Yankee Stadium
11. Bruce Lee Dancing with a Huge Smile on His Face
12. Diane Keaton and Al Pacino On the Set of The Godfather in 1972
13. Albert Einstein with His Furry Shoes
14. A 1968 Photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger Seeing New York City for the First Time
15. An 1898 Image of a Child with Artificial Legs
16. A Photo of Bin Laden with His Classmates in Judo
17. The Last Photo of the Titanic Before It Sank in 1912
18. Behind the Scenes of the 1966 Batman
19. A 1969 Photo of Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger
20. A Photo of the Well-Loved Hachiko Before He Was Buried
21. Photo of German Children Playing with Large Stacks of Money During the Weimar Republic’s Hyperinflation Period in 1922
22. The Beatles and Muhammad Ali in 1964
23. A 1933 Image of the Nazis Singing to Discourage People from Jewish Shops
24. The 1934 Buckeberg Nazi Celebration
25. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Marlon Brando
26. A 1938 Photo of a Woman in Austria Sitting on an “Only for Jews” Bench
27. A 1938 Photo of the SS Troops Loyalty Oath-taking in Munich
28. Nazi SS Troops Enjoying Their Downtime Outside the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936
29. Salutes for Hitler After Germany’s Successful Annexation of Austria in 1938
30. This is a Colored Photo of the Exact Event From Another Angle
31. A 1938 Photo of Hitler’s Bodyguards in Berlin
32. Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein
33. An 1911 Image of Joseph Stalin‘s Record at the Tsarist Secret Police
34. A Frozen Soviet Fighter Used By Finnish Soldiers to Inflict Psychological Warfare on the Soviet Invaders
35. Side by Side Photo of Joseph Stalin (Right) and His Body Double Felix Dadaev (Left)
36. Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee
37. A German Soldier Sharing His Food to a Russian Mother
38. A 1941 photo of Joseph Stalin‘s Son Yakov Dzugashvili When He Was Nabbed by the Germans (He Was Killed Later on at Prison Camp)
39. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
40. A Frenchman in Tears During the 1940 Nazi Occupation
41. This Russian Spy Laughs As He Was About to Be Executed by Finns
42. A Photo Captured of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces During the 1937 Shanghai Battle
43. Charlie Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi
44. The 1942 Execution of the Ukrainian Jews by the German Einsatzgruppen or Death Squads
45. The 1942 Stalingrad March of the German Soldiers
