45 Rare Historical Photos That Will Make Your Jaws Drop

The camera is one of the most useful inventions in history. Because of it, a lot of the most important events that colored people’s lives, whether happy or grim, have been documented. Through photography, people’s memories, regardless of how big or small, were captured and stored forever in archives that we can now see for ourselves.

Below are rare historical photos that will make you wonder about the celebrities who knew each other way back then or will leave you emotional over the events that shaped our history.

1. The Beatles Prior to Their Legendary Abbey Road Photo

2. William Harley and Arthur Davidson (Circa 1914)

3. Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan – 1992

4. Bill Gates‘ 1977 Mugshot for Driving Without a License

5. Robin Williams in a Cheerleading Squad in 1980

6. The First Car Factory in the United States (Ford – 1926)

7. A 1925 Photo of Barcelona’s Camp Nou Stadium

8. A 1900 Photo of Kids in Creepy “Halloween People” Costumes

9. The Streets of Chicago in 1967

10. A 1923 Boxing Event at the Yankee Stadium

11. Bruce Lee Dancing with a Huge Smile on His Face

12. Diane Keaton and Al Pacino On the Set of The Godfather in 1972

13. Albert Einstein with His Furry Shoes

14. A 1968 Photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger Seeing New York City for the First Time

15. An 1898 Image of a Child with Artificial Legs

16. A Photo of Bin Laden with His Classmates in Judo

17. The Last Photo of the Titanic Before It Sank in 1912

18. Behind the Scenes of the 1966 Batman

19. A 1969 Photo of Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger

20. A Photo of the Well-Loved Hachiko Before He Was Buried

21. Photo of German Children Playing with Large Stacks of Money During the Weimar Republic’s Hyperinflation Period in 1922

22. The Beatles and Muhammad Ali in 1964

23. A 1933 Image of the Nazis Singing to Discourage People from Jewish Shops

24. The 1934 Buckeberg Nazi Celebration

25. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Marlon Brando

26. A 1938 Photo of a Woman in Austria Sitting on an “Only for Jews” Bench

27. A 1938 Photo of the SS Troops Loyalty Oath-taking in Munich

 

28. Nazi SS Troops Enjoying Their Downtime Outside the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936

29. Salutes for Hitler After Germany’s Successful Annexation of Austria in 1938

30. This is a Colored Photo of the Exact Event From Another Angle

31. A 1938 Photo of Hitler’s Bodyguards in Berlin

32. Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein

33. An 1911 Image of Joseph Stalin‘s Record at the Tsarist Secret Police

34. A Frozen Soviet Fighter Used By Finnish Soldiers to Inflict Psychological Warfare on the Soviet Invaders

35. Side by Side Photo of Joseph Stalin (Right) and His Body Double Felix Dadaev (Left)

36. Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee

37. A German Soldier Sharing His Food to a Russian Mother

38. A 1941 photo of Joseph Stalin‘s Son Yakov Dzugashvili When He Was Nabbed by the Germans (He Was Killed Later on at Prison Camp)

39. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

40. A Frenchman in Tears During the 1940 Nazi Occupation

41. This Russian Spy Laughs As He Was About to Be Executed by Finns

42. A Photo Captured of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces During the 1937 Shanghai Battle

43. Charlie Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi

44. The 1942 Execution of the Ukrainian Jews by the German Einsatzgruppen or Death Squads

 

45. The 1942 Stalingrad March of the German Soldiers