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Photographs from the archives have a special value to them. They often allow us to peer directly into the past and gain some sense of how things really were in a time long before we were born. Some of them are so startling or fascinating that you can’t help but think to yourself “Is this actually real?”
A polar explorer proffers a can of condensed milk to a polar bear, USSR, 1980s.
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Zanzibar, 1947. An exhausted nanny poses with her young charge, named Farrokh Bulsara. A quarter of a century later, he would adopt the pseudonym of Freddie Mercury.
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A member of the Sioux tribe on horseback, 1905. (Colorization by Dana Keller).
A 7,600-ton multi-story housing block is physically moved in order to extend an avenue in the Romanian city of Alba Julia, 1987.
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The Beatles perform for 18 people in a modest club in the town of Aldershot, December 1961. A year and a half later they would be superstars.
Marilyn Monroe poses for soldiers, 1954. (Colorization by Dana Keller).
The seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen, 1922. It had remained untouched for 3,245 years.
A canteen for Disney employees, 1961.
A boy distributes newspapers bearing a headline about the sinking of the Titanic, 1912. (Colorization by Dana Keller).
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Loading the first ever five-megabyte hard drive onto a PanAm plane, 1965.
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The Hindenburg disaster, 1937. (Colorization applied subsequently).
Young women carrying ice, 1918. (Colorization by Dana Keller).
Newspaper sellers on a cigarette break, 1910. (Colorization applied subsequently).
A beggar runs after George V, 1920.
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A gas station in Washington, DC, 1924. (Colorization added subsequently).
Female boxers on a roof, 1930.
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Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923. (Colorization added subsequently).
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A mobile swimming pool in New York, 1960.
Steven Spielberg during the shooting of Indiana Jones, 1980.