History is rich and fascinating, but with so many moments to remember and life moving as fast as it does, we tend to hold onto only the biggest ones. The lesser-known stories get lost along the way—which is a shame, because they’re often just as captivating.
Thankfully, corners of the internet like the Instagram page Rare Histories do a wonderful job of giving them the spotlight they deserve. We’ve rounded up some of their most interesting posts below. Scroll down to check them out.
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#1 A Pig Photobombing A Wedding In 1927
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#2 Women Marching For The Right To Vote, 1913
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#3 Albert Einstein Plays His Beloved Violin, 1941
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#4 Padaung Women Asking A London Policeman For Directions, 1935
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#5 A Beautician Paints Stockings Onto A Customer’s Skin During Stocking Rationing, London, England In 1941
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#6 Arnold Schwarzenegger On The Day He Received His American Citizenship
#7 Pierre Culliford (Peyo), Creator Of The Smurfs, Presenting His Finished Drawing Of A Smurf At A Studio In Brussels, Belgium, 1983
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#8 Kmart Employees Watching The Moon Landing, July 16, 1969
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#9 A Milk Vending Machine In London; 1940s
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#10 A Group Of Havana Schoolboys In 1937 The Boy With The Lollipop Is Fidel Castro
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#11 Nagasaki, 20 Minutes After, 1945
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#12 Female Police Officer Inspecting A Woman’s Bathing Suit, 1920s
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#13 Harvey Ross Ball And His Creation, 1960s
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#14 The Assembly Line Of Porsche 911’s At The Stuttgart Factory, 1970s
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#15 South Vietnamese Parents And Their Five Children Fleeing Toward Saigon, June 19, 1972
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#16 A “Prettiest Legs” Competition In Paris, 1950
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#17 A Blind Couple Walking With Their Child In The Streets Of Budapest, 1984
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#18 Winston Churchill In His Swimming Costume, 1922
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#19 New Recruits Of The 7th Queen’s Own Hussars Regiment Practice Balancing On Wooden Horses, 1935
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#20 Slot Machine Selling Warm Sausages On A Railway Station In Germany, 1931
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#21 Girls At A Beatles Concert In Plymouth, 13 November 1963
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#22 A Pigeon Bus From Wwi Served As Collecting Point For Messenger Pigeons From The Front Lines
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#23 Newly Built F4u Corsair And F6f Hellcats Being Prepared To Be Shipped To The Pacific Theatre, USA, 1944
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#24 P.t. Barnum & Bailey’s Combined Circus Performers, New York 1924
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#25 Unpacking Mona Lisa After The End Of World War IL In 1945
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#26 Timekeepers At The 1912 Summer Olympics In Stockholm, Sweden
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#27 An Airman Being Captured By Vietnamese In Truc Bach Lake Hanoi In 1967
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#28 Albert Einstein’s Office On The Day Of His [passing]
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#29 Al Capone’s Prison Cell In Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania
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#30 Hindenburg Airship, 1920s
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#31 A Man From France Tastes Coca-Cola For The First Time, Paris, 1950
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#32 Presley Concert, 1957
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#33 Glass Soda Bottles Were Popular Back Then (Late 1970s/Early 1980s)
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#34 Typist Of The Future – Circa 1970
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#35 The Use Of Masks During The Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918
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#36 The Changing Shape Of Female Swimwear From Victorian Era To Late The 1920s
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#37 A Japanese Commuter Train Early In The Morning, 1964
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#38 A Smiling Girl In A Kimono On New Year’s Day, Japan, 1914
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#39 Playing Chess On Broadway, NYC At The Corner Of Broadway And West 49th Street In Midtown Manhattan, August 1986
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#40 Female Worker Bottling Ketchup At The Original Heinz Factory Circa 1897
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#41 Walt Disney On The Day They Opened Disney Studios
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#42 100,000 Units Of Marks, Equal In Value To One US Dollar, 1923
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#43 Helmet With A Built In Communication Device So That The Riders Can Communicate To Each Other, 1960s
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#44 Chess Lesson In A School Pskóv, USSR, 1975
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#45 16-Year-Old Walt Disney As A Red Cross Ambulance Driver During WWI
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#46 Members Of The US Board Of Tea Experts Meet To Taste Teas, Their Mission Was To Set Up Quality Standards For Imported Tea, 1947
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#47 Gene Cernan Smiling For The Camera, With His Suit Covered In Lunar Dust, December 13, 1972
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#48 The Original Taco Bell Menu From The 1960s
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#49 Shoe Shiners Taking A Lunch Break New York City, 1947
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#50 The Face Of The Statue Of Liberty, 1800s Before Being Attached To Body
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#51 The Five Romanov Children With Their Heads Shaved After An Attack Of Measles, In January 1917
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#52 The First Subway Store, 1965, Bridgeport, Connecticut
#53 Diner Drive-In In Los Angeles, 1950s
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#54 People Parked Curbside To Watch A Plane Take Off (NYC), 1951
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#55 Navy Pilots Playing Basketball In The Forward Elevator Well Aboard Uss Monterey The Jumper Of The Left Is Future U.S. President Gerald Ford, 1944
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#56 A Worker Paints The Golden Gate Bridge With A Fresh Coat Of Its Iconic Color, 1956
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#57 The Commander Of An M48 Patton Tank Looks Through His Lens During Vietnam War, 1967
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#58 Post Officers Show Off Their Brand-New “Autopeds” Scooters, Washington, D.c. 1917
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#59 Passengers Watching The In-Flight Film On An Imperial Airways Flight, 1925
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#60 “The Apple”, India’s First Satellite Being Transported Manually
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#61 The Crew Of Apollo 12 The Second Crew To Land And Walk On The Moon, 1969
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#62 A Sailor Gets A Tattoo On His Arm In Virginia, 1939
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#63 In 1953 The 600-Foot Long, 70- Foot-Wide Marine Angel Transited The Chicago River
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#64 The Control Room At The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Continues To Operate After The Disaster, Circa July-August 1986
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#65 Moving A House In San Francisco, Us In 1919
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#66 14-Year-Old Osama Bin Laden (2nd From The Right) In Sweden
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#67 Pin Boys Work The Bowling Alleys In New York City, 1910
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#68 Lounge Interior Of A Trans World Airlines (Twa) Convair 880, 1958
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#69 Old Derricks At Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 1931
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#70 A Woman At A Beauty Show Under Art Deco Hair Dryer, 1930s
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#71 A Douglas Aircraft Company Worker Rivets An A-20 Bomber At The Plant In Long Beach, California
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#72 Log Trucks In North Bend, Washington, 1943, Us
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#73 Automated Drive-In Delivery Metal Track At The Fast Food Restaurant “The Track” Los Angeles, California, USA, 1949
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#74 Fishermen On Baker Beach As The Golden Gate Bridge Is Under Construction, 1936
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#75 Chrysler Building Under Construction, NYC, 1929
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#76 Chicago Board Of Trade Floor Under Construction In 1929
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#77 American Soldier Trying To Catch A Goldfish In The Marble-Lined Pool Of The Taj Mahal, WW2, 1942
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