Have you ever heard of the term ’history porn’? It defines really rare, jaw-dropping archival photos that make you stare at them in silent amazement. Below, we have selected several photos with famous subjects you’ve probably never seen before. Enjoy!
Alan Milne with the ’original’ Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.
Mark Twain in the lab of Nikola Tesla, 1894.
A Russian woman had a total of 69 children — 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets — all with the same man.
Norma Jean Baker at the Van Nuys CA factory, soon to be known as Marilyn Monroe.
Young Winston Churchill.
Alice Liddell — the very Alice from ’Alice in Wonderland,’ by Lewis Carroll.
Tricky game of lights and shadows. Walt Disney, 1939.
This is Willard Scott, and he is the first Ronald McDonald.
The first Michelin man.
The famous Bonnie and Clyde.
Sophia Loren at the Kremlin, 1965.
Dressing room at the Moulin Rouge, 1924.
The Disney employee cafeteria.
The first flight of the Wright brothers, the inventors of the world’s first airplane, 1903.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated, 1914.
Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin and Jawaharlal Nehru in Switzerland, 1953.
