We explore the past to understand the present. And pictures can help us tremendously. However, even though textbooks and other sources use images to illustrate the history they’re talking about, we often focus on the written content instead.

Now don’t take this as a critique of the practice, but let’s switch things up a bit and take a look at the Instagram account ‘Vintage Daily.’

It shares lesser-known visuals to shed new light on people and events from earlier times, providing a sneak peek into moments that might’ve been forgotten had it not been for photographers who decided to immortalize them.

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#1 Rupaul And Nirvana Backstage At The Mtv Music Awards, 1993

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#2 Marilyn Monroe And Jane Russell On Set Of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953

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#3 Marlene Dietrich Kissing A Soldier Returning From Wwii, 1945

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#4 The Man Who Fell To Earth, 1976

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#5 Paris, Circa 1951

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#6 Susan Sarandon At Cannes, 1978

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#7 “I Showed Freddie A Picture Of Marlene Dietrich From Shanghai Express And He Loved It.” – Mick Rock
(Freddie Mercury And Queen Photographed By Mick Rock, London, 1974)

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#8 Audrey Hepburn And Her Dog Mr. Famous Photographed By Sid Avery, 1957

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#9 I Love Audrey So Much. Seeing Her Smile Literally Brightens Up My Day

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#10 Saint Petersburg, Florida, 1973

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#11 Young Slash

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#12 Queen On The Set Of The “I Want To Break Free” Music Video, 1984

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#13 “55 DSL” Dazed, March 2004 Photographed By Jamie Brunskill

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#14 Johnny Depp And Kate Moss Photographed By Annie Leibovitz, 1994

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#15 Roller Skating At Venice Beach, 1979

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#16 Highschool Photos Of Meryl Streep!

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#17 Sophia Loren Photographed By Ormond Gigli, Circa 1955

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#18 Protest

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#19 Freddie Mercury At The Nagoya Castle, Japan, 1975

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#20 Kiss By The Hotel De Ville Photographed By Robert Doisneau, 1950

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#21 David Bowie Photographed By Steve Schapiro, 1975

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#22 Young Heath Ledger

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#23 Michael Jackson And Naomi Campbell On Set Of “In The Closet”

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#24 Hair Straightening With A Real Iron In New York City, 1964

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#25 Cher, Elton John And Diana Ross At The Rock Music Awards At The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1975

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#26 Kellie Everts, 1979

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#27 Teenagers At An Elvis Presley Concert At The Philadelphia Arena, 1957!

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#28 Mother And Daughter In New York City, 1970

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#29 Amy Winehouse For The Sunday Telegraph Magazine In 2004

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#30 Michelle Pfeiffer As Elvira Hancock In Scarface, 1983
directed By Brian De Palma

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#31 Benicio Del Toro And Parker Posey Photographed By Mark Seliger, 1995

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#32 Keith Richards, Tina Turner And David Bowie Photographed By Bob Gruen At The Ritz, New York City, 1983

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#33 A Crow Lighting The Cigarette Of Tippi Hedren On The Set Of “The Birds” (Dir. By Alfred Hitchcock), 1963

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#34 Mott Haven, New York City, 1979
photographed By David Gonzalez

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#35 High School Fashion In 1969

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#36 Studio 54, 1977

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#37 Claudia Schiffer (And Christy Turlington) At Versace After Party In Paris, 1994

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#38 Andy Warhol Drawing A Butterfly On Actress Leigh Taylor-Young, 1967

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#39 Jayne Mansfield Posing With Miss Hollywood Of 1957

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#40 Leonardo Dicaprio With His Parents In 1976

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#41 Girls Applying For A Model Casting In Lithuania, 1992

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#42 South Korea, 1990s

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#43 Twiggy

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#44 “Men Don’t Protect You Anymore” Nirvana In Manhattan, 1993

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#45 Meet Queen!

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#46 Sharon Tate Photographed By Shahrokh Hatami, 1968

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#47 Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1992
directed By Francis Ford Coppola

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#48 Brooke Shields Photographed By Albert Watson, Paris, 1984

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#49 Princess Fatemeh Khanum “Esmat Al-Dowleh” Was The Princess Of Persia, Modern-Day Iran

She was the daughter of the Persian King who ruled from 1848 to 1896.

Back then, it was normal for Qajar women to sport a thin moustache as a sign of beauty. She had over 150 suitors and she was considered as the ultimate symbol of beauty
in Persia during the early 1900s.
“So much in fact, a total of 13 men [took their own lives] themselves because she rejected their love.”

Esmat was given the responsibility of serving as the host for female foreign guests to the court. She also learned to play the piano and went on to become a photographer with her
very own private studio in her home. Her half-sister, Zahra, would hold literary salons at her house every week and helped establish The Society of Women’s Freedom, an
organization that has been championing Iranian women’s
rights since 1910.

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#50 Capri, Italy, 1949

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#51 Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga), 1998

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#52 New York City, 1988 Photographed By Helen Levitt

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#53 Happy Birthday David. Thank You For Encouraging Me To Be The Person I Am Today

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#54 Jerry Hall, 1976

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#55 Lain Delon, Marianne Faithfull And Mick Jagger In Paris, 1967

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#56 Two Women Sitting Outside On The Fire Escape In Harlem, NYC, 1978

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#57 Casting Polaroid Of Salma Hayek, Circa 1995

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#58 Saint-Germain-Des-Prés, Paris, 1962 Photographed By Ed Van Der Elsken

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#59 David Bowie’s Mugshots From 1976. He Was Arrested In Rochester For Pot Possession

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#60 Santa Monica, California, 1955
photographed By Elliott Erwitt

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#61 Young Julia Roberts

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#62 The Beauty Of A Woman

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#63 Capri, Italy, 1980
photographed By Slim Aarons

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#64 Carla Bruni At The Save The Rainforest Gala Dinner In London, 1992

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#65 Vikki Dougan Photographed By Ralph Crane, 1957

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#66 Photograph By Harri Peccinotti For Pirelli Calendar, 1969

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#67 A Teenager With A Broken Arm At An Allman Brothers Concert, Watkins Glen, 1973

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#68 A Young Couple At Times Square, New York City, 1957

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#69 Debra Jo Fondren, 1979

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#70 Paris, 1968

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#71 Marilyn Monroe Photographed By Mischa Pelz, 1953

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#72 Madonna: Truth Or Dare, 1991

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#73 Shakira In The 1990s

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#74 London, 1960s

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#75 Inspo

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#76 Audrey Hepburn On Set Of “The Nun’s Story” In The Belgian Congo Photographed By Leo Fuchs, 1958

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#77 Polaroids Of The Cast Of Clueless Taken By Alan Friedman, 1995

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#78 Hedy Lamarr In Ziegfeld Girl, 1941
directed By Robert Z. Leonard

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#79 Sweden, 1970s

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#80 Jean Shrimpton Photographed By Bert Stern For Vogue, 1965

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#81 Joan Baez And Bob Dylan Photographed By Daniel Kramer In 1964

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#82 Michael Jackson And Madonna Together At The 1991 Academy Awards

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#83 Bianca Jagger At A Rolling Stones Concert, 1975

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#84 Brittany Murphy, 1998

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#85 Sharon Tate Photographed By Jean Claude Deutsch In Paris, 1968

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#86 Storyville Club In Copenhagen, 1952 By Helmer Lund Hansen

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#87 Grease, 1978 Directed By Randal Kleiser

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#88 Jennifer Lopez In Selena, 1997

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#89 Julia Roberts In Pretty Woman, 1990

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#90 High School Fashion Photographed By Arthur Schatz For Life Magazine, 1969

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#91 Portofino, Italy, 1977

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#92 Rest In Peace, George Mendonsa! The Time Square In NYC, August 14, 1945

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#93 The New York Subway Captured By Swiss Photographer Willy Spiller

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#94 Kisses For Paul Mccartney

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#95 Pub In London, 1967

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#96 Bob Dylan And Suze Rotolo Photographed At Their Apartment In Greenwich Village, 1962

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#97 Ina Balke Photographed By Ted Russell, 1964

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#98 Tim Burton And Lisa Marie At The Book Premiere Of “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, 1993
photographed By Barry King

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#99 The Godfather, 1972
directed By Francis Ford Coppola

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#100 Jerry Hall And Antonio Lopez In Paris, 1976

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#101 Shakira, Ca. 1992

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#102 Miss Universe Contestants In 1968.miss Brazil (Martha Vasconcellos) Won

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#103 18 Year Old Madonna At The Art Worlds Institute Of Creative Arts In Ann Arbor In Michigan, 1977photographed By Cecil L. Taylor

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#104 Claudia Schiffer For Vogue Us, 1989 Photographed By Ellen Von Unwerth

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#105 You Can Only Pick 3: Who Would You Like To See Live?

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#106 Ellen O’neal, 1976

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#107 San Francisco Streetstyle, 1971
photographed By Nick Dewolf

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#108 Two Young Teen Girls Smoking Cigarettes In The Grass. Photographed By Henk Hilterman In 1969

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#109 Sophia Loren And Jayne Mansfield At Romanoff’s In Beverly Hills, 1957

Here’s what Sophia Loren said about the famous last picture: “Paramount had organized a party for me. All of cinema was there, it was incredible. And then comes in Jayne Mansfield, the last one to come. For me, that was when it got amazing…. She came right for my table. She knew everyone was watching. She sat down. And now, she was barely… Listen. Look at the picture. Where are my eyes? I’m staring at her nipples because I am afraid they are about to come onto my plate. In my face you can see the fear. I’m so frightened that everything in her dress is going to blow — BOOM! — and spill all over the table.”

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#110 San Francisco, California, CA. 1962

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#111 Jimi Hendrix And Carmen Borrero, 1968

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#112 Two Lovers In Washington Square Park, New York City, 1962
photographed By André Kertész

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#113 Paris, 1955 By Henri Cartier-Bresson

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#114 Ennifer Lawrence Photographed By Alasdair Mclellan For Vogue UK, November 2012

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#115 Angelina Jolie In Gia, 1998

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#116 Hawaii In The 1970s

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#117 Milk

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#118 Audrey Hepburn On Set Of Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961
directed By Blake Edwards

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#119 Audrey Hepburn Photographed In Bolgheri, Tuscany, 1972

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#120 Anthony Kiedis Smoking Pot For The First Time At The Age Of 11, 1973photographed By His Father

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#121 Alain Delon And Romy Schneider, 1959

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#122 Al Pacino As Michael Corleone And Diane Keaton As Kay Adams On Set Of The Godfather, Part II, 1974directed By Francis Ford Coppola

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#123 Brooke Shields In The Blue Lagoon, 1980
directed By Randal Kleiser

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#124 Saturday Night Mood

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#125 Jessica Lange In New York, 1975

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#126 On Set Of Taxi Driver, 1976

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#127 Kate Hudson As Penny Lane In Almost Famous

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#128 War And Peace, 1956 Directed By King Vidor

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#129 Montmartre, Paris, 1970 Photographed By Patrice Molinard

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#130 Rio De Janeiro, 1978

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