27 Rare Historical Photos That Everyone Should See

History captured in the click of a shutter…

1. Elvis Presley waits for his bacon and eggs at the segregated railroad station lunch counter while a black woman waits for her sandwich – Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1956

2.  Marilyn Monroe tries to go shopping while fans and media watch, 1957

3.  Mannequins from an atomic bomb test site in Nevada during the mid-50s

4.  Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reaching the summit of Everest, 1953

5.   Members of the RECON platoon unloading from a UH-1D (Huey) helicopter– Operation “Oregon” operating 3 kilometers west of Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam

6.  The Beatles play for 18 people at the Aldershot Club, December 1961. They were to become superstars in one and a half years time

7.  The first Wal-Mart store was opened in 1962 by salesman Sam Walton. It was called Walton’s Five and Dime.

8.  A Native American Man overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada, circa 1868

9.   Bandits Roost off Mulberry Street, New York City, 1887. The opening scene from the movie Gangs of New York was based off this photo

10.  German engineers testing the Messerschmitt BF109 E3

11.  The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, circa 1927

12.  Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx by the pyramids in Giza, 1961

13.   Anne Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel

14.   A very young Lucille Ball around 1930

15.   Factory workers race on the roof test track of Fiat factory in Turin, Italy, 1923

16.   Red light district in Seoul, Korea, marked as “Off Limits” to American G.I.s, 1945

17.   US Customs agent pointing a gun at a car that is suspected of transporting marijuana across the US-Mexico border, 1969

18.   Looks like a bad day to mow your lawn. Pictured are lineups at a gas station during the 1973 fuel shortage

19.   The Congress of Freaks, Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus, 1924

20.   A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

21.    Players from the Chicago Cubs with their mascot, 1908

22.   Microsoft staff – December 7, 1978

23.    The Earliest Known Photo of Abraham Lincoln, circa 1840

24.   Ku Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City, 1925

25.   Hannah Stilley, born 1749, photographed in 1840. More than likely the earliest born individual ever captured on film. She later wished she smiled a little.

26.   Dissection room at a medical school in Bordeaux, France circa 1890

27.   Suburbia move-in day, 1950s