Rare And Weirdest Historical Photos!

12,500 officers, nurses and soldiers from Camp Gordon form a human eagle. [1918]

A man testing a prototype football helmet. [1912]

A police officer judges an ankle competition in London. [1930]

A woman rides an early electric scooter. [1916]

An ancient statue of Ramses the Great is dismantled and relocated during construction of the Aswan Dam. [1967]

An elephant is used to load supplies onto an American plane. [1945]

Boy Scouts examine their boots after an 8,000 mile hike to attend the first Boy Scout Jamboree. They walked 25 miles a day for two years. [1937]

Children without access to water learn to swim in a schoolyard. [c. 1920s]

Four horsemen ride through the streets of Amsterdam on a ‘motor-less day’, when cars were prohibited due to the oil crisis. [1973]

Laika, the first dog in space, has her capsule built around her. No provisions were made for her return, and she died in orbit. [1957]

New South Wales police in Australia turn their motorcycles into chariots. [1936]

Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank. [1950]

Soldiers use gas masks to stop them crying while peeling onions. [1941]

The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm. [1890]