Looking at photos of the past is always fascinating. They may be about the simplest of things like a boy marveling at a television set for the first time or of some iconic building that doesn’t exist anymore, but that’s what captivates us about them even more. That peeking we do at moments of the past. The more trivial it is, the more real it seems.
Such old and rare pictures from history give us a glimpse of what life used to be long before our time and in the past, we have featured many articles on rarely-seen vintage photographs. Today, we will look at some more powerful historical images that you are unlikely to have seen in any history book.
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