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Exploring history is an adventure that never ceases to be interesting. It becomes even more exciting when we can delve into the past through fascinating photographs. These historical images, together with their fascinating stories, offer a fascinating insight into the lives of those who have passed away in the past. Although we have already shown you many iconic historical photos, here are some more that are equally cool yet less well-known.

1. Karen Leadlay, an engineer with General Dynamics' Space Division, working on analog computers in 1964

2. E. Lilian Todd, a self-taught inventor, was considered the first woman in the world to design and build her own aircraft, 1909

3. A young boy playing the banjo with his best friend, 1920s

4. Julia Child makes spaghetti with Mr. Rogers, 1974

5. The Rocket Express, a monorail that carried kids around the toy department on the eighth floor of the John Wanamaker department store in Center City, Philadelphia, 1950s

6. Children cross a river using pulleys on their way to school in the outskirts of Modena, Italy, 1959

7. A postman with a baby in his mailbag in 1913, when it was possible and legal to send children through the US postal service

8. Riding the Broughton Lumber Flume, Hood River Junction on the Columbia River at the Washington/Oregon border

9. 5-megabyte hard drive being shipped out, IBM, 1956

10. A 1932 American Bantam that was used for ferry service over the Pudding River in Oregon

11. Roland, a 4,000-pound elephant seal, getting a snow bath from his handler in the Berlin Zoo in the 1930s

12. Ming the Panda photographs Bert Hardy's son, Mike, at the London Zoo, December 1938

13. The 1915 eruption of Mt. Lassen as seen from Red Bluff, California

14. The Lorain Public Library in Lorain, Ohio, had a 50,000-book chaos in 1971.

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15. Women assembling the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album at the Hayes Vinyl Factory in 1965

16. Bell Telephone’s Picturephone, 1964

17. Empire State Building window washer, 1936

18. USS Los Angeles Airship Lands on the USS Saratoga, January 1928

19. A young boy shows off his bike to the neighborhood girls, 1972

20. A farm boy at a pop stand, general store in Lamoille, Iowa, Arthur Rothstein, 1939

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