Fascinating Photos: 30 Rarely Seen Pictures From History
Nathan Johnson
Published
05/13/2024
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Take a trip through the past with this batch of rare pics taken throughout history. There is nothing that will make you more grateful for living in the world today than seeing what life was like all the way back when. It's an old adage, but times are changing.
From pictures of street vendors selling mummies to pictures of dentists pulling teeth without anesthesia, you'll reconsider how great the modern world is.
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A Kitty Basking In The Beard Of Louis Coulon, A French Metallurgist, Taken In 1890 -
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Rare Picture Of A Black Female Union Soldier 1862 -
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This Photograph Shows A Young Mother, Exhausted From Spending Hours Making Matchboxes, A Pile Of Which Can Be Seen On The Table -
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A Woman Dressed Up As Batgirl In 1904, 35 Years Before The Creation Of Batman In 1939, And 57 Years Before The Creation Of Batgirl In 1961 -
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Two Ladies Making A Snow Lady. This Photo Was Originally Printed In Strand Magazine, Volume III 1892 -
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Portrait Of Ah-Weh-Eyu (Pretty Flower), Of The Seneca Nation, 1908. Photo By J.l. Blessing -
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Portrait Of Hattie Tom, An Apache Native American, 1899 -
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Unidentified African-American Family Prairie Settlers From The 1880s -
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A Young Victorian Lady Photographing A Mirror Selfie. Circa 1900 -
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Amelia Van Buren With Friend Photographed By Thomas Eakins, Late 1880s, Metropolitan Museum Of Art: Photography -
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A Female Mason Perched High Above Berlin (C. 1910) -
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Rather Creepy Victorian Humpty Dumpty Adaptation From Alice Through The Looking Glass Circa 1873 -
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Autremagazine 1890s, An Inuit Man Warms His Wife’s Feet. Greenland -
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Portrait Of Victorian Bird-Man In Norway, Robert Collett (1842-1913) Taken C. 1910 -
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Female Japanese School Students, They Were Wearing Edo Period Uniforms Consisting Of A 'Hakama' (Skirts Worn Over A Short-Sleeved 'Furisode Kimono', In The Tokyo Prefecture, Meiji Era, Imperial Japan, C. Early 1910s -
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Unknown Victorian Lady Pulling A Face For The Camera -
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Vintage “Selfie” Photo Set With Unknown Female Couple Either As Lovers Or Possibly Sisters ( Due To Likeness) Circa 1900 -
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A Couple Of Victorian Travellers Looking Rather Dandy Taken Around 1890s -
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Portrait Of Actresses Maude Adams And Ethel Barrymore, Taken In New York, Circa 1897 -
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"A Fine Day In London" Photographed By Hector Colard C.1898 -
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Unknown Victorian Woman In A More Unusual Pose At The Time, Having A Good Ol’ Chuckle -
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Street Vendor Selling Mummies In Egypt, 1875 -
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‘Blackbirds’, A Group Of Men And Women Sitting In A Fallen Tree. Photograph By Louis Milton Thiers C1910 -
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Mother And Daughter Watch A Tall Ship Navigate The Thames Assisted By A Steam Tug, London, Ca. 1880 - Sunderland Antiquarian Society -
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Having A Tooth Taken Out At The Dentist In The UK In The 1870s -
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Portrait Of A Cat Photographed By Edward And Henry T. Anthony & Co. Circa 1869-1875 -
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Portrait Of Another Victorian Batwoman, Shown As Marie Schleinzer, Taken At Adele Kuk Hof-Atelier, Vienna Circa 1890 -
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Alice Doherty - The Minnesota Woolly Girl - Poses With Her Family In A Typically Dour Victorian Photograph Circa Early 1900s -
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A Victorian Lass With Rather Long Hair In A Fashionable Pic C1890s -
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Young English Victorian Lady Posing With Her Pet Cat C1890s
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