75 Rare Historical Photos You Haven't Seen

Residents of the Pitcairn Islands on a British naval ship, 1916. They are all descendants of the survivors from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

The police applicant photo of Gerard Schaefer. He got the job, but was fired for gathering info on female traffic violators to call them for dates. After taking a new police job, he was convicted of killing two teenage girls. He is now suspected of up to 26 other murders, Florida, 1970

Crown Prince Leka Zogu I of Albania, son of King Zog with his wife Princess Susan, 1970's. Leka was forced to go into exile by the Albanian communists when he was just a few days old, but returned in the 1990's amidst the decline of communism. He was noted for his enormous 6'9 stature

Doughboys of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division in a former German dugout, Germany, 1918

Russian children standing by the decapitated head of a statue of Tsar Alexander III during the Russian revolution, 1918.

Battleship USS New Jersey (BB-16), circa 1918

80 years ago today, on May 28, 1945, British fascist William Joyce ("Lord Haw Haw") was captured in Flensburg. He later became the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. [Colorized]

“Put Moscow on trial for starving 7,000,000 Ukrainians” A Ukrainian diaspora protest at the Soviet embassy in Washington DC against Soviet policies (Russification) currently happening in the Ukrainian SSR. The largest banner in the photo refers to the Holodomor. (September 1984)

Michael Hardy playing football with Ming the panda at London Zoo, Michael was the son of famous WWII photographer Bert Hardy. This particular photo was taken for the Sunday Graphic in 1939.

"Whose Fault?" A poster with photos of German concentration camp atrocities being publicly displayed for Germans in Munich, US occupied Germany, 1945

Nguyễn Thị Bình, the woman who spoke for Vietnam as chief diplomat at the Paris Peace Accords, March 1973

A Dayak man gnaws on the severed leg of a killed Madurese settler, near Singkawang, Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. March, 1999.

The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) in Greymouth, New Zealand, during his 1920 tour of the country.

Austro-Hungarian troops (Schutzkorp) in Trebinje, killing civilian Serbs as part of anti-partisan operations. 1914

Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, firing a bow & arrow, 1970's. Nicu was notorious during his fathers rule for his sexually predatory behavior, alcoholism & gambling addiction. After his fathers overthrow he was arrested for taking children as hostages

British photo of Serbian Chetniks and British SOE in a cave in occupied Yugoslavia. On the far right, Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović, while on the far left, his body decoy. (1943 or 1944)

Alexei Nikolaevich, (3rd from right) son of the Tsar Nicholas II, smacks another boy in the face for making a mistake during a cadet drill, 1917.

After the German annexation of Austria, police struggling to contain a cheering Austrian crowd during Adolf Hitler’s visit to Vienna. (March 1938)

Marriage of Chin couple Za Lian (groom) and Tlung Nuam (bride) on May 23rd, 1910. The marriage officiant is Swedish Baptist missionary Dr. Erik Hjalmar East.

German children receiving weapons training during the final months of WW2. (December 1944)

US General George S Patton & his wife Beatrice at a costume party, 1930's.

Swedish Sámi Family in front of their traditional dwelling in Skansen. 29th August 1910

King Peter II of Yugoslavia looking at an agricultural map of the country. He became king of Yugoslavia at age 11 after the assassination of his father, Alexander I. (1937)

Ada Kaleh was a island in the Danube that remained an exclave of the Ottoman Empire from 1878 to 1923 (but under occupations since 1913), after the empire lost control of the region. It was inhabited by Turks until 1970, when it was flooded by the Romanian Iron Gates dam. Date unknown

Cetshwayo, King of the Zulu people who famously defeated the British at the battle of Isandlwana, in captivity in Cape Town following his defeat a year later, 1880. Noted for his enormous stature, Cetshwayo was between 6'6 and 6'8 in height.

German Soldiers Surrender to the Red Army in East Prussia, 1945.

Slobodan Princip was Gavrilo's nephew. He was a Yugoslav Partisan who was killed in 1942 and posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero. 1938

Cuban Liberation Army troops taking aim with Remington Rolling Block Rifles/Carbines during the War of 1895, circa 1895-1898.

Supporters of the Serbian Radical Party holding photos of WW2 Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić, at a rally in Belgrade, December 2002

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, his personal secretary, most trusted bodyguard and "right hand man," 1990s. Mahmud was labelled "the ace of diamonds" by the US military as the fourth most wanted man in Saddam's government during the invasion of Iraq.

Group photo of Siyin Chin chiefs in eastern British Burma circa 1900.

Italian fascist Maria Pasquinelli at her trial for killing a British general to protest the Italian exodus of Allied occupied Julian March (soon to become Yugoslavia). Was serving a life sentence in Italy, but received a presidential pardon and released in 1964. (1947 photo)

Jerzy Andziak was a Holocaust survivor and a convicted murderer. He was 14 when he became a slave laborer in 1943, 16 when he was freed in 1945, 20 when he killed a man in a botched burglary in 1948, and 21 when he was executed in 1949. In a plea for clemency, he wrote about what he saw.

In honor of Memorial Day- The bodies of a dead American Marine and a Japanese soldier on Tarawa Atoll. Other Marines of the 2nd Marine Division rest in the background, November, 1943. Lest we forget.

In occupied Poland, German policemen burning a house in Michniów and killing Poles for participating in resistance. The next day, they returned, burning and killing the rest of the village for another Polish Home Army attack (July 1943)

The bodies of 21 Polish soldiers killed during the defense of the village of Stonawa on 26 January 1919, including 5 or 7 murdered as prisoners of war by Czechoslovak troops during the attack on Cieszyn Silesia.

Einstein sitting outside a small wooden cottage near Cromer in Norfolk, England. He was the guest of Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, who sits on the ground next to the professor carrying a shotgun. Oliver had offered refuge to Einstein to help him avoid persecution by the Nazis. 1933.

Photo of Fritz Schmenkel (left), a German soldier who deflected to the Soviet partisans. Was later captured and executed by the German military for treason. Posthumously awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union” for his actions during WW2. (1943)

East Berlin in the late 1980s

Infamous staged photo to represent the German invasion of Poland. German soldiers destroying the Danzig-Polish border post at Kolibki checkpoint. (September 1939)

Ousted Slovak Autonomous leader Jozef Tiso meeting with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to discuss an independent Slovakia, during German and Hungarian aggression against the rump Czechoslovakia. Tiso proclaimed the Slovak State the next day with German support. (March 13, 1939)

José Martí together with members of the Key West Committee, circa 1891.

Adolf Hitler blowing his nose backstage at a Nazi rally, 1935.

A bugler blows taps at the close of Memorial Day service at Margraten Cemetery, Holland, where lie thousands of American heroes of World War II, 1945. (US Army Signal Corps photo)

A young Filipino girl is pictured sitting on a wooden bench in an enclosure and "displayed" in Coney Island. New York, 1905.

1863 Georgetown College. The lad far left is my great great grandfather. And the man who took the picture is in the picture Matthew Brady.

Chin tribesmen in eastern Burma with traditional firearms called Tumi, circa 1901-1910.

1974 photo of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco presenting the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic to Saddam Hussein, then Vice President & de facto ruler of Iraq. Within 5 years Franco would be dead & Saddam would assume absolute power in Iraq

Portrait of Petar Brzica, a Croatian Ustaše guard at Jasenovac concentration camp, holding the head of one of his Serbian victims. Won a contest for killing the most prisoners using a knife coined the “Serb-Cutter”. Disappeared in 1945. (1942 photo)

Queen's Day celebrations, Dam Square, Netherlands, 30 April 1971

A photo of Emperor Menelik II after successfully defeating the Italians & saving Ethiopia from European colonization 1896

A curious British schoolgirl watches the preliminary hearing of serial killer John George Haigh, also known as the "Acid Bath Murderer", from a window ledge, London, 1949

Elbe Day “East Meets West”: Photo of American and Soviet soldiers holding each other, celebrating the meeting of two fronts during WW2, in Germany, April 1945

Anticolonial activist & eventual founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah speaking with Mahatma Gandhi outside the former's home, 1939. The two men were among the most influential in the entire Indian independence movement but became divided on the issue of Hindu-Muslim national unity.

Post Munich Agreement photo of the German military officially entering Czechoslovakia to annex the Sudeten regions into the German Reich. The local German population salute the troops. (October 1938)

Fidel Castro visiting the Great Wall of China, 1995

Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo reads the official state oath during his presidential inauguration, 1930. Behind him is vice-president & former president Rafael Urena, who he brought to power in a coup & then replaced. Trujillo went on to rule the Dominican Republic for over 30 years.

Overhead view of Boeing Super Sonic Transport, ancestor to Boeing 2707, wings un-swept in NASA Ames Research Center. Moffett Field, California, United States. June 1, 1965

Indian troops in Haifa after freeing it from Ottomans and Germans during WW1 , 1918 . Last of the great cavalry charges .

Lieutenant-Colonel Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada in uniform with machete in hand during the War of 1895, circa 1898.

Fidel Castro with his five-member revolutionary tribunal in a court-martial of a local peasant, 1957.

Salvador Allende competes in an impromptu race against Senator Armando Jaramillo. Chile. 1965.

Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua before execution by the Japanese, 1938

Trawniki men (Eastern European collaborators of the German occupation in Poland) during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, April/May of 1943

An Iron Man Of The Past In A Diving Suit. The Suit’s Name Was ‘Iron Man’ Too. It Had Electric Charging And Pressure Protection Systems. New York, 1907.

First photograph of a tornado: Garnett, Kansas in 1884

Vojtech Tuka, the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic during WW2, and leader of the radical secular wing of the Hlinka Party, in prison before his war crimes trial in Czechoslovakia. He was eventually sentenced to death and hanged. (1945)

Harold Jones, 15, wears a gold watch gifted to him to celebrate his acquittal in the murder of a young girl. After his acquittal, he had been welcomed back to his home town with cheers from the locals. It turns out Jones was guilty. He killed another young girl weeks later, Wales, 1921.

Wood-choping or "aizkolaritza" contest in Deba (Basque Country, Spain), in 1949.

Karl Hermann Frank, a Sudeten German Nazi, moments before his public execution in Prague. Convicted for the massacre of Czechs in Lidice and Ležáky during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Survivors attended the hanging while he showed no remorse. (May 1946)

German soldiers interrogating a russian girl suspected of being a partisan, Novorossijsk, 1943

German Soldiers Marching through the streets of one of the British Channel Islands. 1940

Chamorro kids play with an abandoned Imperial Japanese Army helmet and gas-mask on Guam some time after the US Military drove the Japanese off the island, July 1945.

Bodies of American troops laid out in a US cemetery near the road leading to Gillemont Farm and Bony. They were killed in the fighting near Gillemont Farm on 29 September 1918 when the 27th US Division attacked over the main Hindenburg Line and suffered heavy casualties.

Paratroopers from 1st and 3rd Platoons of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, take a break in their march from Camp Toccoa to Atlanta in December 1942.