This collection of fantastic old images was shared with me by my father-in-law, and is too good not to share onwards. Sadly, I could not find a web-based version of the list, so I have decided to host them here. Enjoy, a visual feast of 20th century history.
Credits: Most of these images are old enough to be out of copyright and so are free to use. For the newer ones, I am sharing them under assumed fair use for educational purposes. The text has been copied from the original email. If you feel this post infringes your copyright, please let me know.
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- A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.
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- Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.
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- The construction of Disneyland .
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- The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.
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- Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.
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- Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.
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- Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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- New York ‘s Times Square in 1911.
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- Child laborers in 1880.
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- The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.
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- Elvis in the Army.
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- Bill and Hillary Rodem Clinton playing volleyball in 1975.
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- The 1912 World Series.
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- Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I.
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- The Beatles in 1957
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- Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
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- The first McDonalds.
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- Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.
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- British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa , January 18, 1943.
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- Hitler in Paris .
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- The original Ronald McDonald — played by Willard Scott!
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- A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.
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- Winston Churchill out for a swim.
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- The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.
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- A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.
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- Nagasaki , 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
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- Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.
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- Google begins.
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- The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940
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- A different angle taken of “Tank Man,” the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square .
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- The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.
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- The Microsoft staff in 1978. (Bill Gates lower left, Paul Allen lower right)
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- Che Guevara
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- A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941
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- Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.
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- Albert Einstein
