20 rare historical photographs that you have not seen before

And again we go on a journey through time. And it, as experience shows, can be no less fascinating and impressive than traveling in space. Sometimes even more interesting!

Studying history or reading stories, we have at our disposal only dry facts and our imagination. But photographs provide us with much more. They show how it really looked, provide an opportunity to better understand the historical moment. Behind each of the following pictures is an interesting story or an important event, so they are incredibly curious to view.

Dorothy Counts - the first black girl to start attending a white school in the USA - teased by her white-skinned classmate, 1957

Nikola Tesla sits with his laboratory with a "magnifying transmitter"

Austrian boy received new shoes during World War II

Graves of a Catholic wife and a Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

Jewish prisoners after being released from the train of death, 1945

The only man who refused to participate in the Nazi salute, 1936

The organizers of the marathon are trying to stop Katherine Sweetzer so that she does not compete in the Boston marathon. She became the first woman to finish, 1967

Job seeker in the 1930s

Deaf Harold heard his first sound, 1974

The first morning in Sweden after amending the driving rules: from left-hand traffic to right-hand, 1967

German soldiers react to shots from concentration camps, 1945

West Berliners show children to their grandparents who live on the east side, 1961

Acrobats balance on top of the Empire State Building, 1934

Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris, 1884

Exotic dancer demonstrates that her underwear covers everything sufficiently after the police arrested her in Florida

Mafia boss Joe Masseria lies dead on the floor of a Brooklyn restaurant, holding an ace in his hand, 1931

Lesbian couple at Le Monocle, Paris, 1932

The most beautiful suicide - Evelyn McHale jumped from the Empire State Building, 1947

A Nigerian design student and part-time actor put on his costume for the Alien thriller, 1978

The remains of astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967

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