Monday, February 16, 2026

What are some rare historical photos you wouldn't believe exist?

 Here is the list.

Some may be funny, some may be wierd, but remember it. You won't see them often.

  • Probably the most important point in world's history.

11th December, 1941. Hitler declares war on U.S.

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  • Italian dicatator Benito Mussolini killed by Italian partisans & people in Loreto square, Milan, while he was trying to move to Switzerland, in 1945.

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  • WW1 reconnaissance pigeon, 1915.

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  • Here's a beautiful lady. Any guesses?

Queen Elizabeth 2 giving her first televised Christmas address, 1957.

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  • The last public execution in the United States.

On this friday, Aug 14, 1936 picture, Rainy Bethea is photographed for his execution in Owensboro, Kentucky.

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  • Real braveheart. Smiling while being shot.

A Russian spy being shot in Finland in 1939.

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  • Some creative artwork. Or war work?

Women painting propaganda posters for the war, 1942.

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  • Beautiful memories of a great legend.

Charlie Chaplin rolling on the floor laughing on the set of Limelight.

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  • Is he a joker? Nope. A psychopath. Nope.

He's Pablo Picasso (1957)

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  • It's space time now. But not so adventurous.

The remains of astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967.

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  • Just imagine the count of people killed in holocaust.

Wedding rings of holocaust victims.

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  • Where's the body?

The Statue of Liberty's head at Paris world's fair, 1878.

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  • Thug life.

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev drinking wine from a drinking horn in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, 1963.

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  • Hitler doing some labour work.

Adolf Hitler breaking some ground on his ambitious project to link all major German cities with highways (September 1933)

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  • Messy work. But great it was.

Albert Einstein's desk photographed a day after his death.

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That's it for now. Will add some more soon.


Edit 1:

  • Phew!! That's hell lot of destruction.

The shells from an allied creeping bombardment on German lines, 1916.

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  • Painting of Eiffel tower, 1923

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  • Melted & damaged mannequins after a fire at Madame Tussauds' Wax Museum, 1930.

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  • Totally unexpected.

Norway celebrates the first ever banana arriving in the country.

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  • Hitler in disguise.

Images from US intelligence agencies of how Hitler could have disguised himself, 1944.


Edit: Here are some more pics.

This photo gives an idea of the great size of Titanic's propellers.

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The glasses wornby John Lennon when he was assasinated, in 1980.

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Christ, The Redeemer, being constructed.

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A man sweeping the hyper-inflated banknotes away from the streets after the introduction of new Hungarian forint in Aug, 1946, in Hungary.

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Construction of the Berlin wall in 1961.

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A German army dog from the first WW, wearing a hat and a pair of glasses and carrying a pair of binoculars.


Image source: Rare Historical Photos ,historical photography , some more random Instagram pages.

Edit : Adding some pictures of India-pak partition during 1947.

Deciding the Ind-pak partition.

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Refugee camps in Pakistan were filled, burdening the already weakening economy.

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The aftermath.

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Refugees in queue for water- New Delhi, 1947

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Jinnah's last press conference in India before leaving for Pakistan,1947.

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Indian flag hoisting by Nehru at Red Fort in 1947.

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The first cabinet of independent India.

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Gandhi visits muslim refugees at Purana Quila , New Delhi, as they prepare to depart to Pakistan in 1947.

Source: Pinterest