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50 Of The Most Curiosity-Inducing Historical Photographs

Liucija Adomaite, Indrė Lukošiūtė and Kotryna Brašiškytė

In our times, most of humanity’s effort is set on exploring the future and the advancements that come with it, whether it’s technology or science. But delving into the past can be just as if not more entertaining.

Luckily, there’s a whole corner of Reddit dedicated to joining history aficionados together and sharing some of the most intriguing, rare and unique moments that happened a long time ago. Being home to a whopping 3.3M members, this subreddit is one of the biggest powerhouses on the platform!

Think of the moment Marlon Brando rejected his Oscar and gave the stage to Sacheen Littlefeather to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. Or the sunny afternoon when Che Guevara and Fidel Castro went fishing in 1960. Or a day in 1992 when Michelle and Barack Obama were giggling while getting married.

Thanks to photography, special moments like these were forever carved in our memories and so today, we invite you on a walk down memory lane. Scroll down and upvote your favorite ones!

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#1 When They Realized Women Were Using Their Sacks To Make Clothes For Their Children, Flour Mills Of The 1930s Started Using Flowered Fabric For Their Sacks (1939)



#2 Albert Einstein Defying The Prevailing Racial Climate At The Time By Visiting Lincoln University, Pennsylvania



#3 Johnny Depp Saved The Old Horse Goldeneye From Sleepy Hollow Who Played Crane’s Companion, Gunpowder



#4 "Happiest Man In China"



#5 In 1973, Marlon Brando Rejected His Oscar For The Godfather To Allow Sacheen Littlefeather To Protest Hollywood’s Portrayal Of Native Americans



#6 Tokyo Residents Mourning Hachiko



#7 Mass Demonstrations Against Soviet Union In Baku, The Capital Of Azerbaijan, 1989



#8 Six-Year-Old Austrian Boy “Werfel” Receiveing A New Pair Of Shoes At The Am Himmel Orphanage



#9 Nakano Takeko (Onna-Musha Of The Aizu Domain) In Imperial Japan



#10 African-American Boys On Easter Morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941 [colorized]

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#11 A Group Of Samurai Went On A Tourist Tour In Egypt And Took A Photo In Front Of Sphinx, 1864



#12 Arnie Supporting Disables Athletes In The Early 1990's



#13 Shoemaker’s Lunch, 1944. By Bernard Cole



#14 A Young Barack Obama Spending Time On The Beach With His Grandfather 1963



#15 A Selfie Taken By Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918)



#16 Anne Frank And Her Sister Margot At The Beach, Zandvoort - August 1940




#17 Tiananmen Square Just Before The Massacre, June 4, 1989



#18 This Boy’s Photo Was Taken In Los Angeles, California, Circa 1920s. A Stately Pose. From My Glass Negative Collection



#19 112 Year-Old Teimruz Vanacha (Left), Veteran Of WWI And The Russian Civil War, With His Son Ivan, A Veteran Of WWII, In 1980



#20 The Ethiopian Negus Menelik II Who Defeated The Italians In The Battle Of Adawa And Thus Saving His Nation From Colonisation. 1913

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#21 Salvador Dali Painting "The Face Of War", 1940



#22 Night Fishing In Hawaii, 1948



#23 Cannabis Rights Activist Ben Masel Smoking A Joint While Voting In The 1976 Presidential Election. Taking Advantage Of An Apparent Law That Prohibits Arrest While Voting



#24 A Mob Pours Sugar, Ketchup And Mustard Over The Heads Of John Salter, Joan Trumpauer And Anne Moody



#25 Rarely Did Photographers Make It To Frontier Families But When They Did Families Wanted To Show How Well They Were Doing Out West By Stripping The House & Pose For The Camera



#26 On This Day 59 Years Ago, Soviet Space Mission Vostok 6 Was Launched With Valentina Tereshkova Onboard, Who Became The 1st Woman In Space



#27 Greenpeace Tries To Stop Radioactive Waste From Being Dumped In The Ocean, 1982



#28 A Smiling Girl In A Kimono On New Year's Day. Japan, 1914



#29 Russian Conscript With His Family Before Being Deployed To The Front, Karachev, Bryansk, Russia, 1943



#30 In The 1890s, The Congo State (Controlled By Belgian Settlers) Allowed The Companies To Maneuver Almost Entirely Freely

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#31 Võ Thi Thang Smiling After Being Sentenced To 20 Years Hard Labour In A Prison Camp By The South Vietnamese Govt - 1968



#32 Chinese-American War Worker In Los Angeles



#33 Commuters In New York On The Evening Of November 22, 1963



#34 My Grandfather. 1933. In A Cornfield He Planted That Was Destroyed By Locusts



#35 Jaques Biederer, The First Photographer In History Specializing In Erotic Photos. This Photo Was Taken In Paris In 1928



#36 Santa Claus With The Children During Croatian War Of Independence. Vukovar, 1992 (Colorized)



#37 A Boy And His Owl, 1933



#38 An Enthusiast For Men's Dress Reform Walking Down The Strand In London. The Mdrp (Men’s Dress Reform Party) Was Formed In The Interwar Years In Britain, 1930



#39 UPS Worker Delivers Packages In New York City During The Attacks Of 9/11 2001



#40 Memorial Day 1945: French Teen Helene Chapelle And Her Mother Kneel At The Grave Of James Simonian Who Was Killed During The Normandy Invasion

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#41 [colorized] Three Scout Girls Collect Peach Pits, Which Will Later Be Processed To Make Gas Mask Filters During World War I. Washington, 1917-1918



#42 Queen Elizabeth; The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret And A Bored Prince Charles Watching The Coronation Ceremony Of Queen Elizabeth II. Westminster Abbey, 1953



#43 J. Robert Oppenheimer And Albert Einstein, 1947



#44 Captain Lewis Nixon Of The 101st Airborne Wakes Up After A Night Of Celebrating Courtesy Of Goerings Private Liquor, Wine And Champagne Collection, Austria May 4th 1945



#45 Dr. Erich Salomon Faked A Broken Arm So He Could Hide A Camera In His Cast To Photograph The Us Supreme Court - 1932



#46 Anton Dostler, Nazi General Moments Before Being Executed For War Crimes. Aversa, Italy. 1 December, 1945



#47 P.t. Barnum & Bailey's Combined Circus Performers, New York 1924



#48 Photo Of A British Man Wearing A Chain Around The Neck Of Aborigines, Who Are Natives Of Australia. 1900's



#49 Mohawk Warrior Attacks Canadian Soldiers During Oka Crisis July-Sep 1990



#50 Ms. Lee Merlin, The Winner Of The “Miss Atomic Bomb” Pageant In Las Vegas, 1950s


50 Of The Most Curiosity-Inducing Historical Photographs