Rare Historical Pictures From Around the World You May Not Have Seen [Part 1]

Fans of the Beatles go nuts during a concert in the late 1960s:

A British armored vehicle being made in 1919:

A diver goofs off by holding an umbrella sometime in the mid 1940s:

A model sits on a concept car, the Porsche Tapiro, in 1970:

Ebbets field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers (NYC, US), in 1920. Notice how the fans walked on the foul grounds to get to their seats:

Orson Welles reading War of the Worlds as if it's really happening during a live broadcast in 1938. The public had no idea it was fake. Panic and mass confusion gripped the US in most places for at least a day as people, despite not seeing any of the events they heard on the radio, thought Mars had invaded:

People wearing what was at the time normal swimwear while at the beach in New Jersey, US, in the 1920s:

An Australian soldier having a shave during the Battle of Somme in 1916 while wearing a captured German helmet:

Irish women's boxing champion Elsie Connor showing off for a magazine in preparation for a fight in 1931:

A Japanese teenage biker gang and their friends hang out in Tokyo in 1964:

The vastly different reactions of Czechoslovakian citizens in Sudeten greeting German soldiers as they march past them in 1938:

Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (PA, US) in the late 1800s. From 1879 to 1918, some 10,000 Native American children were forced from their families and tribes to attend this school and assimilate into modern American culture. Only 158 ever graduated from the school:

The first Governor of Southern Nigeria Sir Walter Egerton with 2 of his servants in Lagos in 1910:

Some brave Cubans prepare to board a makeshift boat to sail to Florida in as part of the mass exodus of 1994. Many died, never making the 90 miles to the US:

Mexican wrestler Irma Gonzalez posing before one of her first matches in 1955. She became one of the most famous Mexican female Luchadores of all-time:

Construction workers take a break and play harmonicas while building the Rockefeller Center skyscraper in NYC in 1932:

French officers prepping Vietnamese soldiers in French Indochina to move out for battle in 1943:

An all girl Iranian pop band taking a promo picture before touring in Pakistan in 1974:

A street gang in the Bronx, NYC, US in the mid 1970s:

Source for pictures and captions can be found here.