Rare Photographs

Well, there are quite a few rare photos. Believe it or not, some of them are more modern than others. So, here is a “small” list I made of them…

Trotsky and Frida Kahlo meeting up. Frida Kahlo later made a self-portrait dedicated to Leon Trotsky.

A member of the 10th battalion of the Australian army plays with his battalion kangaroo in Egypt.

The smallest and tallest soldiers in the German army in the early parts of WWII.

Ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie during the American Civil War on Sept. 8, 1863.

French soldiers with their battle-torn flag after years of fighting.

A Soviet citizen in Leningrad putting up propaganda posters during the great patriotic war (WWII).

A German and a British citizen with ancestors who fought in WWI and were part of the Christmas Truce shake hands 100 years later in 2014.

Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train in 1945.

Russian soldiers in Scotland on parade, August 6, 1917.

Star Trek fans with the original Star Trek crew.

Woman posing with dead relatives.

Anti-aircraft Hawk missiles at the beach in Key West during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Hitler sitting down for a meal with Josef Goebbels and other Nazis officials.

The brain of the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky who committed suicide in his Moscow apartment on the 14th of April, 1930. The brain of Vladimir Mayakovsky was unusually large, according to the doctors.

Statue of Liberty under construction, 1883.

Che Guevara in North Korea.

A British army officer with two drag queens after WWI.

A photo of Franz Reichelt falling to his death after jumping off the Eiffel Tower in order to test his parachute, 1912.

Nicholas II with his family. The children were still eating when the photo was taken.

Barricades of the socialist revolutionaries in the Paris commune, 1870s.

Anti-aircraft firing at Germans at Leningrad during the siege.

Islamist revolutionaries burn the American flag during the 1979 Iranian revolution.

My grandfather in uniform, 1950s. This is probably one of the rarest photos in the world since there is only one copy.