The Most Powerful Historical Photos You Have Never Seen

52 Rare Historic Photos That You Probably Haven’t Seen Before, 

No.1, Dorothy Counts - The First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States - Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957,

No.2, Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”, 

No.3, Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII,

No.4, Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945, 

No.5, The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888, 

No.6, A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936, 

No.7, Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967, 

No.8, Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974, 

No.9, Job Hunting In 1930's, 

No.10, First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967, 

No.11, German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945, 

No.12, Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961, 

No.13, Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934, 

No.14, The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884, 

No.15, An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida, 

No.16, Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932, 

No.17, 7-Foot Bolaji Badejo, A Nigerian Design Student And One-time Actor, Wearing His Costume From The Now Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Alien, 1978, 

No.18, The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967, 

No.19, Hats In New York, 1930, 

No.20, A German Child Meets Her Father, A WWII Soldier, For The First Time Since She Was 1 Year Old, 1956, 

No.21, Wounded Combat Dog During Action On The Orote Peninsula, 1944, 

No.22, Frida Kahlo Dressed As A Boy, 1924, 

No.23, A Mother Shows A Picture Of Her Son To A Returning Prisoner Of War, 1947, 

No.24, Scottish Piper In A Kilt On The Battlefield During World War One, 

No.25, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Is Returned To The Louvre After WWII, 

No.26, These Are Titanic Survivors Boarding The Carpathia In 1912, 

No.27, Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1932, 

No.28, A Rare Shot Of A Young Winston Churchill, 1895, 

No.29, The First Bananas In Norway, 1905, 

No.30, Robert Williams Wood, Max Planck And Albert Einstein In The Front Row Of A Session Of The Physical Society In Berlin On July 28, 1931, 

No.31, About 100 People Participate In A Lottery To Divide A 12 Acre Plot Of Sand Dunes, That Would Later Become The City Of Tel Aviv, 1909, 

No.32, Carving Eye On Mount Rushmore, 1930s, 

No.33, Tsar Nicholas II Allows His Daughter, The Grand Duchess Anastasia, To Smoke, 

No.34, Marilyn Monroe Filming Her Iconic Scene In The Seven Year Itch. This Shot Was Taken In New York In Front Of A Large Crowd Of Bystanders And Press To Create Hype, 1954, 

No.35, Bob Dylan With Mick Jagger And Keith Richards At Jaggers 29th Birthday Party, July 1972, 

No.36, The Last Public Execution By Guillotine, 1939, 

No.37, Hungarian Jews Being Selected By Nazis To Be Sent To The Gas Chamber At Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Auschwitz Album May-June 1944, 

No.38, Columns Of Hoover Dam Being Filled With Concrete, February 1934 (Looking Upstream From The Nevada Rim), 

No.39, US Coast Guard Cutter Spencer Destroys The Nazi Submarine U-175, April 17, 1943, 

No.40, Vladimir Lenin's Last Photo. He Had Had Three Strokes At This Point And Was Completely Mute, 1923, 

No.41, Eduard Bloch, The Jewish Physician Of The Hitler Family In His Office C. 1938. Bloch Was Later Called A ‘Noble Jew’ By Hitler And Stood Under His Personal Protection, 

No.42, Soviet Troops Scrawled Graffiti In The Reichstag After They Took Berlin In 1945, 

No.43, A Jewish Woman Who Is Concealing Her Face Sits On A Park Bench Marked "Only For Jews", Austria, 1938, 

No.44, The Gadget, The First Atomic Bomb, 1945, 

No.45, Jennie Macgregor, Arrested By Minneapolis Police On April 10, 1924 For Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages From Life-Preserver Flasks, 

No.46, Crew Of The Japanese Carrier Zuikaku Give One Final Banzai Cheer Before The Ship Sinks, 1944, 

No.47, Boxing Match Aboard The U.S.S. New York, July 3, 1899, 

No.48, Finalizing The Fat Man Atomic Bomb, Which Was Dropped On Nagasaki On August 9, 1945. On Its Nose It Had Stenciled The Acronym “Jancfu”- Joint Army Navy Civilian, 

No.49, A Young Hitler Cheers The Start Of World War One, 1914, 

No.50, The Eiffel Tower During The Nazi Occupation, 1940, 

No.51, An American Evacuee Punches A South Vietnamese Man For A Place On The Last Chopper Out Of The US Embassy During The Evacuation Of Saigon In 1975, 

No.52, A Group Of Men Posing In Front Of Lynch’s Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852,