This week on amazing historical photos we have a collection of dynamic rare history photos. The good, the bad and the ugly of humanity is featured in this episode of vintage pictures.
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0:00 Introduction
0:06 Working the grinding stone Crewe Locomotive Works, England (1913)
0:21 Reefing the mainsail Circa 1920
0:36 Makeshift Hospital Vietnam (1970)
1:06 Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducts funeral For his 19 year-old son Private Mike Fenton. Okinawa, Japan (1945)
1:21 Learning to swim When you don't have access to water (1922)
1:36 Victorians exploring in their Sunday best Chamonix Glacier, Savoy Alps, France (1867)
1:51 Eugene Sandow The father of bodybuilding (1902)
2:06 and... George Hackenschmidt Creator of the hack squat, circa 1900
2:21 SS Normandie after burning & capsizing While being converted to a troopship. Pier 88, NYC (1942)
2:36 Penny-farthing race New York (1800)
3:06 Criminal inmate in restraints West Riding Asylum, England
3:36 The face of an NHL goalie before masks Terry Sawchuk, Toronto Maple Leafs
3:51 Army v Navy Polo grounds, New York (1916)
4:21 Chess legend Bobby Fischer working a chess problem while riding the NYC subway (1962)
4:36 Vermeer's "The Astronomer" One of many priceless cave & mine finds by The Monuments Men
4:51 The Gangs of New York "Bandits Roost" Mulberry Street, Little Italy, by Jacob Riis (1890)
5:06 Mass sea burial aboard the USS Intrepid Shortly after a Kamikaze attack (1944)
5:21 Ray Campbell v Dick Hyland 1913
5:36 Giant 1931 Studebaker Billed as "The World's Biggest car" 41 ft long, 13.5 ft high
5:51 Climbing the Great Pyramid of Khufu photo by Henri Bechard (1875)
6:07 "Cobalt bomb" cancer treatment Paris, 1959
6:21 JRR Tolkien's wife Edith The inspiration for Luthien (1907)