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Mesmerizing Vintage Pics That Transport You to Another Era

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A lot of us are often drawn more to old photographs than to written history. If you are one of those, then you're in luck today, because we have compiled a collection of some of the most fascinating images from history that give us a rare glimpse into the past.

1. A group of kids had arranged to care for and feed a dog after its owner passed away in England in 1936

2. Jesse Owens breaking the world mark in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

3. Shigeki Tanaka, a 19-year-old survivor of Hiroshima's atomic devastation, later won the 1951 Boston Marathon

4. An Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

5. A German soldier returns from Soviet captivity in 1956. He was sent to battle when his son was a year old. Germany

6. US cavalrymen pose in front of the "Grizzly Giant," a sequoia in Yosemite, 1900. This tree still survives today

7. During the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918, a streetcar conductor in Seattle refuses to allow customers without masks to board

8. A fleet of Concordes at London Heathrow Airport, 1986

Related: These Vintage Photos Left an Indelible Mark on History

9. Beach Volleyball , Venice Beach CA June 1934

10. The 3,000 men who helped build the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City pose for a photo at the end of construction on August 19, 1964

11. Aircraft tester George Aird narrowly avoids death after jumping sideways from his plane (1962). Aird crashed through a nursery on his way down, fracturing both legs

12. A child with measles sits and eats alone during a Coronation party in Chelsea, England, 1953

13. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, left, explores the completed tower with a friend in 1889

14. Unpacking the Statue of Liberty. New York City, 1885

15. An ostrich reads its caretaker's newspaper, 1951

16. The original Moulin Rouge in Paris, a year before it burned down in 1914. Photograph: Albert Kahn

17. A woman tests a pram meant to be immune to gas attacks in Hextable, England, in 1938, just before the onset of World War II

Related: You May Know These Photos, but Not Their History...

18. Sculpting begins on the face of Lincoln at Mount Rushmore, Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota, 1927

All images source: Izismile

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