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    15 Photographs From Past Decades That Will Shock You

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    They say a photograph is worth a thousand words. Yet sometimes a camera is able to capture even more than that. A single image can, on occasion, convey a whole book! The 15 historical photographs we've collected below are remarkable examples of this. Take a look, and prepare to be shocked as you are transported instantly back in time!

     

    Deciding how to divide up sand dunes that would become modern day Tel Aviv.

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    Miss New Zealand faints at the Miss Universe pageant in Long Beach in 1954.

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    norman.hrc.utexass

     

    This is Martha Graham. When she was born, she was a slave. By the time this picture was taken, she was one of the last people in America to have experienced slavery.

    photo-slave
    reddit

     

    This is Fritz, a celebrity dog during the 1960's!

    photo-firtz
    imgur

     

    This is what surviving a kamikaze attack looks like.

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    reddit

     

     

    A lunch counter sit in during the Civil Rights movement.

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    reddit

     

    This is not a robot, it's a dive suit from 1911!

    photo-diving
    imgur

     

    Back in the 1950's, weed was grown openly in the fields of New York.

    photo-weed
    reddit

     

    The moment the MGM lion came into being…

    photo-mgm
    wikimedia

     

    In Russia, kids gather to absorb UV rays, to help with deficient vitamin D levels.

    photo-uv
    natgeocreative

     

    During the first French mission to Antarctica the explorers had a break… champagne, anyone?

    photo-antarctica
    reddit

     

    This Australian soldier was sadly shot in the face during WW2.

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    reddit

     

    This image shows a Dutch protestor from a movement called Provo, back in the 1960's.

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    reddit

     

    The last living Tasmanian tiger to walk the earth. Benjamin, pictured below, died about three years after this shot was taken.

    photo-tiger
    reddit

     

    When the US pulled out of Vietnam, people were literally fighting to get onto the choppers out of there.

    photo-first
    imgur

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