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Rugilė Baltrunaitė

94 Weird History Pics That May Change How You See The Past

Anita Ekberg Sacheen Littlefeather

Did you know that on September 10, 1970, there was a Miss American Vampire pageant in Los Angeles? Organized as part of a promotional campaign for the television series Dark Shadows, it elected actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather as the winner. You might recognize her as the woman who declined Marlon Brando's Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 Academy Awards.

Yet, she wasn't the one who was crowned Miss American Vampire. What really happened? Well, it's up to you to find out, as you scroll down this list of historical pics. We've rounded up the most interesting ones from the Instagram page "Ethereal Fields," and present to you here those we think you might not have seen yet before.

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94 Weird History Pics That May Change How You See The Past

#1 Dutch Boys Ride The Freedom Train After Liberation From Germany. 1945

#2 Anita Ekberg Threatening A Paparazzi With Her Bow And Arrow, 1960

#3 Canadian General Hospital, Ca. 1916-19

#4 Jim Morrison In Teotihuacán, Mexico, 1969

#5 Leningrad Region, Commuter Train, 1993

#6 Velvet Underground Performing At The Playboy Club In Chicago, 1966

#7 German Fireman Test A New Helmet Invention Ca. 1900

#8 Cats In Zero Gravity

#9 Circus Elephants Many And Kiri Clearing Rubble In Hamburg After World War II, 1945

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#11 Soviet Invasion Of Prague

#12 Students Publicly Denouncing/ Humiliating Their Teachers For Being „anti Revolutionary“ During The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1967-1972

#13 A Croatian Soldier Poses During The Croatian War Of Independence

#14 Gasmask Fashion

#15 Visited The Latvian Museum Of Medical History

#16 David Lynch With His First Painting, 1963

#17 Maria Germanova As The Witch In Maurice Maeterlinck’s Play "The Blue Bird". Moscow Art Theatre, 1908

#18 The Spanish Civil War

#19 Notre-Dame By Marc Riboud, 1952

#20 The L’eplattenier Helmet Was A Prototype Military Helmet Designed For The Swiss Army By Charles L’eplattenier In 1916

#21 Doll Factory, 1950s

#22 Tram 58 At Zugliget, Budapest, 1940

#23 The Hungarian Revolution Of 1956

#24 The Last Sword Duel In History, France, 1967

#25 Marvin Koner, A Nun Watches Orphaned Children Sleep, 1940

#26 The Virtues Crushing The Vices, Strasbourg Cathedral, 1853

#27 Iranian Revolution By Abbas Attar, 1979/1980

#28 Eartha Kitt With Kitties, 1952

#29 Aleister Crowley Photographed By Jules Jacot Guillarmod During The K2 Expedition, 1902

#30 Peter Lindbergh, Comme Des Garçons, 1988

#31 Dick Smith’s Make-Up For The 1961 Golden Showcase TV Version Of The Picture Of Dorian Gray, 1960

#32 A Woman Moving To Another Village Takes With Her The Bones Of Her Dead Son

#33 Morris Graves In His Garden Photographed By Immogen Cunningham, 1973

#34 Youth Poverty By Stephen Shames

#35 1971 Munich Hostage Crisis

#36 This Image Is Not Of Queen Genepil In 1923, But Rather A Different Mongolian Nobel Woman In 1921 Claimed To Be Genepil

#37 Betty Boop Enlisted To Sell Cigarettes In 1940s Iraq, Encouraging People To Smoke Them At The Cinema

#38 Red Army’s Hijacking Of A Jal Flight In 1970

#39 Medival Shame Masks

#40 Spanish Archaeologist Manuel Esteve Wearing The Corinthian Helmet He Had Found - 1938

#41 An Opium Den In New York City, 1902

#42 Sword Swallower At A Carnival. By Diane Arbus. Maryland, 1970

#43 Photos From Opium Den

#44 Joan Jett

#45 Sisters Of St. Joseph Of Carondelet, Practicing For A Possible Air Raid, 1942

#46 Valium Ad From The 80s

#47 Miss American Vampire Pageant, 1970

#48 Russian Speznaz Soldier

#49 Before And After Pictures Of A Syphilis Clinic, Early 1900s

#50 Tattooed Woman From Hans Prinzhorn’s Book „prisoner’s Art“, 1926

#51 Grace Kirby Behind The Scenes Of Hellraiser, 1987

#52 Soviet Prison Tattoos 1960-1980

#53 Italian Futurist, Composer And Painter Luigi Russolo

#54 Mask Against Depression, 1937

#55 Tlingit Shaman Binds A Witch, Sitka, Alaska

#56 Palamar With The Trinity. 1970s The Village Of Kryvorivnia, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine

#57 Iranian Embassy Siege, London 1980

#58 Croatian/Bosniak Traditional Tattoos

#59 Tattoos Of A French Prisoner, 1951

#60 From Sidetripping By Charles Gatewood

#61 Shomei Tomatsu - Statue Of An Angel Shattered By The Atomic Bomb At Urakami Cathedral, Nagasaki, 1961

#62 Christine Spengler, North Ireland, 1970s

#63 Guatemalan Civil War 1960-1996

#64 Nikita Khrushchev Excited About Corn, 1957-1962

#65 The Fluess Apparatus An Early Diving Device Created By Henry Fleuss, 1879

#66 A Cabin Off The Missouri River In The North Dakota Badlands

#67 Siberian Shaman, 1900s

#68 Jackie Kennedy (John F Kennedys Wife) On Halloween 1962

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#70 Guatemalan Civil War 1960-1996

#71 Native From Adelaide Australia With Decorative Scars, 1908

#72 Mexican/ Mazatec Spritual Mushroom Healer Maria Sabina

#73 Spanish Anarchists Pose With Fascist Skull During The Spanish Civil War

#74 Iranian Revolution By Abbas Attar, 1979/1980

#75 Croatian/Bosniak Traditional Tattoos

#76 Visited The Latvian Museum Of Medical History

#77 By Pentti Sammallahti

#78 By Pentti Sammallahti

#79 Storyville Portraits By E. J. Bellocq, 1912