Rare historical pictures

in #life8 years ago

19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. 

Big Jay McNeely Driving the Crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a Frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953. 

5 June 1989: 'Tank Man' stands in front of a column of tanks in the Avenue of Eternal Peace, the day after the Tiananmen Square uprising was crushed. 

Photo of a WW1 German Lancer. 

The priest and the dying soldier, 1962.

250 kg diving suit built in 1911 by Chester E Macduffee.  

Picture from Haiti.

A man begging his wife to forgive him to avoid divorce in the 1940s. 

WW2 era "selfie" taken by Franz Krieger.

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