Historic Photos (20 pics)

1

Disneyland Employee Cafeteria, 1961

2

A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began

3

106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47, 1990

4

Jacqueline Kennedy backstage watching her husband during the first televised debate against Richard Nixon – 1960

5

Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo the Lion (the mascot for the Hollywood film studio MGM), 1957

6

Soviet Planpotters around 1917

7

Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea

8

Orville Wright flew for 9 minutes and 45 seconds, 1911

9

League of German Girls dancing during the 1938 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany

10

Robert F. Kennedy sleeps on the floor of a plane during his 1968 presidential campaign

11

Chicago Cubs’ 1908 mascot was horrifying; possibly a giant squirrel

12

Mount Vesuvius eruption in the midst of WWII, as captured by American pilots, March 1944

13

Muhammad Ali vs Cleveland Williams, 1966

14

New York commuters reading of President Kennedy’s assassination, November 1963

15

Final days of Samurai, 1868 Japan

16

Salvador Dali at a book signing, taken with a fisheye lens, by Philippe Halsman, 1963

17

Last four couples standing in a Chicago dance marathon. ca. 1930

18

Vikki “The Back” Dougan, 1957. She was the inspiration for the cartoon femme fatale, Jessica Rabbit

19

Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japan, October 12th, 1960