24 rarely seen photos of important and amazing moments througout history

With the development of digital technology, capturing important events became very easy. You just need to be in the right place and in the right time and click a button. After that, when you publish your image, it will exist forever, it won’t fade out. But in the past, it wasn’t so simple and not everybody had the opportunity to make a photo and publish it for the whole world to see.

Luckily, a lot of these hidden, or long forgotten, but carefully preserved photos, survived and now we have the opportunity to see them and go back in time, in some of history’s most notable moments. Take a moment and have a look at these rare glimpses of the past.

#1. Los Angeles, 1926 – Alerted by the smell of a broken bottle of liquor, Federal Agents inspect a “lumber truck”

#2. Bombs dropped on Kobe, Japan, 1945

#3. Douglas MacArthur signs formal surrender of Japan, 1945

#4. Ruby Bridges, the first african-american to attend a white elementary school in the South (November 14th, 1960)

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

#6. 9 Kings in Windsor Castle, May 20th, 1910

#7. Hungarian Revolution of 1956

#8. Soviet soldiers take a break to watch an acrobatic show on the march towards Berlin, 1945

#9. JFK and LBJ during the Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962

#10. A Japanese family returning home from a relocation center camp in Hunt, Idaho on May 10, 1945

#11. Pyramid of captured German helmets, New York, 1918

#12. Joseph and magda Goebbels on their wedding day. Best man- Adolf Hitler, 1931

#13. Samurai ca. 1860-1880

#14. Powder Monkey on the USS New Hampshire, 1864

#15. The headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist party in Italy, 1934

#16. Mark Twain inside the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, 1894

#17. Three archers, Japan, ca.1860-1900

#18. Prohibition- Alcohol barrels to be burned, 1924

#19. “The Long Walk” British Army EOD Tech approaches a suspect device

#20. First picture ever taken in space, 1946

#21. The Kennedy trio in the mid 30s as teenagers John, Bobby and Teddy

#22. German flying ace, The Red Baron and his dog, 1916

#23. Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan in the general’s tent near Antietam battlefield October 3, 1862

#24. The first official riders in New York Citys first subway, 1904