A picture is worth 1,000 words, especially when it’s from our past.

Rare, Historical Photographs

1.)  An advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug – 1941

2.) Colorized photo of George Armstrong Custer and some of his fellow soldiers during the American Civil War

3.) A maintenance crew loads 5 megabytes of memory into a Pan am Aircraft – 1956

4.) Notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his son in front of the White House – 1980’s.

5.) During the Apollo 16 mission, astronaut Charles Duke left a family photo that was enclosed in a plastic bag on the moon

6.) A 23-year-old John Wayne on the set of “The Big Trail” – 1930

7.) Adolf Hitler’s pants after the assassination attempt at the Wolf’s Lair. Rastenburg, East Prussia – 1944

8.) On July 22, 1941, a woman who lived on the second floor of Merwedeplein 39, Amsterdam, celebrated her wedding. Looking on from the balcony next door, was a 12-year-old Anne Frank. This is the only existing film footage of Anne.

9.) The Beatles walking the other way – an outtake from the Abbey Road album cover shoot

10.) Mom and son in Las Vegas watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test – 1953

11.) Afghan women, pre-Taliban, had access to careers, education, and public spaces. By the mid-90s, employment and education of women over the age of eight was outlawed

12.) Gandhi in London, at the age of 18, working as a Barrister – 1888

13.) Hitler in the crowd at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army during World War I – Munich, August 2, 1914

14.) A police officer judges an ankle competition in London – 1930

15.) Willard Scott, the original Ronald McDonald Clown – 1963

16.) Osama Bin Laden (right) with Judo mates

17.) United States Border Patrol trying to drag a fugitive across the US border to keep him from escaping to Mexico – 1920

18.) Salvador Dali walking his pet anteater – 1969

19.) 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47 – 1990

20.) Cameramen shooting and recording the lion roar for the MGM logo

21.) Disneyland Employee Cafeteria – 1961

22.) The only known photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg

23.) Cow hooves shoes used by Moonshiners in the Prohibition days to disguise their footprints – 1922

24.) Bruce Lee, at age 18, he was so good at dancing that he won a competition to become the Cha-Cha Champion of Hong Kong

25.) Jewish refugees, approaching allied soldiers, become aware that they have just been liberated – April 1945

26.) Pre-concussion rule days, a man tests a prototype football helmet – 1912

27.) Jimi Hendrix driving a dune buggy with an unidentified woman – October 6, 1968

28.) The headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist party in Italy – 1934