30 STRANGE HISTORICAL PHOTOS THAT YOU’LL NEVER SEE IN A SCHOOL TEXTBOOK

30 Strange Historical Photos That You’ll Never See In A School Textbook.

There are lots of iconic images that make their way into school textbooks – and then there are the images that are too bizarre or difficult to explain to be on the pages of a children’s book. Luckily, we were able to track those images down and compile them for you here.

Below are 30 interesting and off-the-beaten-path historical photos that you probably never saw in history class. Some of them are inspiring – others are just downright strange. See them below and learn a little bit more about the world’s rich history. #21 is totally shocking.

#1. A photographer in West Berlin kicks a policeman across the border in East Berlin.

#2. Marilyn Monroe wearing the dress that scandalized the world when she sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy.

#3. The reverend Vernon Mitchell talks to women at a London strip club to discuss what should be censored from the show.

#4. Carving one of the eyes on Mount Rushmore 1930’s.

#5. A five megabyte hard drive being shipped by IBM in 1956.

#6. Hanging onto news on the World Series outside the local newspaper office in 1919.

#7. Statue of Liberty pictured from Jersey City in 1973.

#8. Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at Jagger’s 29th birthday party.

#9. A shop boy selling pizza at a street market in Naples, Italy in 1953.

#10. Children playing with worthless money during the hyperinflation in Germany in the twenties.

#11. Freedom Train, which toured the United States in the forties.

#12. Barack Obama during his time at Harvard Law School.

#13. The astro-chimp holding a newspaper after surviving his trip to space in 1961.

#14. A woman being arrested for serving alcohol illegally during Prohibition.

#15. A chihuahua riding a greyhound in the 1880’s.

#16. A foot guard passes out, likely from heat, as Queen Elizabeth II rides past him.

#17. A Messerschmidt KR175 pictured in Germany in 1954.

#18. Robert Pershing Wadlow, the tallest person in recorded history. He was 8 ft. 11. He’s pictured here, next to his brother, who was 5 ft 11.

#19. Bonnie and Clyde, pictured here in March 1933.

#20. President Gerald Ford plays a traditional Japanese game with a geisha in Kyoto, Japan.

#21. The largest black sea bass ever caught by Edward Llewellen. It weighed 425 pounds.

#22. Completing the transcontinental phone line in Wendover, Utah.

#23. The paving of the Indianapolis Moto Speedway. Chevy founder Louis Chevrolet is seen driving the #42 Buick.

#24. ‘How To Save A Life,’ a lifeguard class at Howard University in the early forties.

#25. Indian suffragettes march through London demanding votes for women in 1911.

#26. Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, the first woman to ever walk in space.

#27. Bernard Otto Holtermann standing next to the largest gold chunk ever found, called the Holtermann Nugget.

#28. American Horse, an Oglala Lakota chief, statesman, educator and historian.

#29. Detroit giving a Fireboat’s Five-gun Salute to celebrate the city’s 250th birthday.

#30. Stevie Wonder visiting a school for blind children in London.