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29 Historical Photographs That Take You Back In Time

Archival photographs are wonderful to look at, because they're like peering through a window into the past. There are some things you see in them that have simple changed or ceased to exist entirely. Take a look at these and travel to other times and places: 
 
A polar bear receives some condensed milk from a polar explorer some time in the 1980s.
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A young Parsi boy, Farrokh Bulsara, poses with his nanny in Zanzibar in 1947. He would later adopt the pseudonym of Freddie Mercury. 
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A Sioux horseman looks on into the distance, 1905. 
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A 7,600-ton housing block is lifted off its foundations and moved in Romania, 1987. 
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Claude Monet, the famous artist, poses with his paintings, 1923. 
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The Beatles perform in a small club in Aldershot, UK in 1961. They would become a global sensation just 18 months later. 
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Hollywood siren, Marilyn Monroe, greets American troops in 1954. 
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 The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun's tomb before its opening in 1922. It was untouched for 3,245 years. 
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Preparing "Easter eggs" for Adolf Hitler, WWII, 1944.
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Disney employees grab some lunch in the canteen, 1961
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World-famous actress and sex symbols, Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield, at a dinner party in 1957. 
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A paper boy sells newspapers in New York City following the sinking of the Titanic, 1912. 
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The first-ever 5-megabyte hard drive is loaded onto a PanAm plane, 1965. 
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New York's Madison Square pictured at the turn of the 20th Century. 
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The Hindenburg comes to a fiery end, 1937.
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The world's first telephoto lens, 1900. 
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Women carry blocks of ice off of a truck, 1918. 
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Singaporeans abuse heroin in an opium den, 1918. 
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A man loses control of his car in Washington, 1921. 
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A primitive flight simulator is used for practice by pilots, 1942. 
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Newspaper boys enjoy a smoke, 1910. 
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Fiat employees race on the roof of the Lingotto factory in Turin, Italy, 1923. 
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A beggar runs after King George V of England, 1920. 
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A car gets a refuel at a gas station in Washington DC, 1924. 
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Female boxers slug it out on a rooftop, 1930. 
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A man puts his life on the line to demonstrate the effectiveness of a bulletproof vest, 1923. 
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Revellers enjoy a mobile swimming pool in New York City, 1960. 
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A young Steven Spielberg pictured during the shooting of Indiana Jones, 1980.
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Willard Scott as the original Ronald McDonald, 1963. 
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