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Photographs are more than just images captured in time. They are portals to the past, offering a glimpse into history that words alone cannot convey. Some photographs are so rare and precious that they are considered valuable treasures, a testament to the art of photography and its ability to convey a story visually. Today, let's take a look at some of the most amazing historical photos that you are unlikely to have seen before.

1. Oldriev's new tricycle. Photo by Chas. W. Oldrieve, 1882

2. Prisoners of the Dachau Concentration Camp greet their American liberators through a barbed-wire fence. (Germany, April 1945).

3. A woman from the Ouled Naïl tribe in Algeria.Photographed by Rudolph Lehnert in 1904.

4. Breakfast tea being passed across carriages on a train from Peshawar to Lahore in 1983. Photographed by Steve Mccurry

5. An advocate of men's dress reform walks down the Strand in London. The Mdrp (Men's Dress Reform Party) was formed in the interwar years of Britain in 1930.

6. Marie and Pierre Curie, physicists and Nobel Prize winners, shortly after their wedding. France (1895)

7. A studio portrait of Hattie Tom, a young Chiricahua Apache woman, photographed at the United States Indian Congress of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, 1898

8. Percy Hodge, a British hurdler, demonstrates the perfect obstacle jump while carrying a bottle and glass on a tray. In 1920, Percy Hodge became an Olympic champion in the 3000-meter hurdles.

9. British military equipment disguised as elephants in India during WWI

10. Anne Frank, six, holds a jumping rope next to her friend, Sanne Ledermann, on a pavement in Amsterdam. 1935

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11. An ultra-light horse-drawn car in traffic, Paris (1943).

12. Charles Godefroy flies through Paris' Arc de Triomphe. The opening is 14.62 meters wide and 29.42 meters tall. The aircraft's wingspan measured nine meters in width in 1919.

13. Children playing with a toy guillotine in France, 1959

14. The G.O.E. Herbert Tea & Dining Rooms, 10 New Street, Chipping Norton, England, 1910.

15. A piglet being treated at the Pdsa (People's Dispensary for Animals) in Ilford with a sun ray lamp to cure a skin ailment, 1938

16. During a citywide newspaper strike in 1953, riders on the New York subway sit without newspapers

17. An 'Iron Man' in a diving suit. The suit was called 'Iron Man' as well. It had electric charging and pressure protection systems. New York, 1907.

18. Pippa Garner's photograph and concept for "The Half Suit" from 1982

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