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