▲Author H.G. Wells with actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin in the offices of the film production company Stoll Pictures, London, 1921.

▲Fred Astaire dances on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London with his sister and dance partner, Adele.

▲American baseball player George Herman Ruth, known as 'Babe' Ruth, shows a child how to hold a bat in the Yankee stadium.

▲World heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey, falls from the ring after receiving a blow from Argentinean heavyweight Luis Ángel Firpo during a match in Polo Grounds, New York, September 14, 1923.

▲On the "Whirl of the World" fairground attraction at Wembley, London, August 1924.

▲Members of the 'Younger Set' of Baltimore show off the trend for painting the faces of their best friends on their knees, circa 1925.

▲Women pose for a photo in Chiswick Baths, London, May 1920.

▲Three sisters, Elizabeth, Helen, and Margaret Hay, photograph film stars Douglas Fairbanks Senior and Charlie Chaplin, September 1922.

▲British featherweight boxer Ben Callicott trains ahead of a match with Ernie Rice, April 11, 1921.

▲Canadian dancer Christina Dukette dressed in an Egyptian costume, March 1923.

▲With French move star Alain Delon in the picture, Mick Jagger feels a little left out.

▲Osama bin Laden poses in a family photo while on holiday in Sweden in 1970.

▲This photo taken from a New York high-rise illustrates how fashionable headwear was in 1939.

▲Alfred Hitchcock plays in the snow with his grandchildren, 1960.

▲Students at the University of Princeton after a snowball fight in 1893.

▲A five-megabyte IBM computer is delivered, 1956.

▲People cross an improvised bridge made out of chairs during a flood in Paris in 1924.

▲Literary genius Ernest Hemingway in prison after one of his parties.

▲Women protest against a law obliging them to wear a hijab after the Islamic Revolution.

▲The last photo of the Titanic at sea, in 1912.

▲Audrey Hepburn goes shopping with her new pet, a deer, in 1958.

▲Dior models turn heads in the USSR, 1956.

▲British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has his cigar lit by an admirer during World War II.

▲French café customers in 1950 see a bottle of Coca-Cola for the first time.

▲The intact seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen, in 1922. It was left untouched for 3,245 years.

▲Two men taking a cigarette break on top of the RCA Building during its construction in 1932.

▲The Beatles at the EMI studios in Abbey Road in 1967 as they prepare for 'Our World,' a worldwide live television show broadcasting to 24 countries with a potential audience of 400 million.

▲Elvis Presley cutting the six-tier wedding cake with his bride Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, May 1, 1967.

▲Two men walking towards Los Angeles, California, in America's Depression-era 1930s

▲A young lad called Barack Obama practices his baseball swing.

▲East German border guards approach a bus carrying about 12 East Germans, which tried to break through the Sandkrug Bridge between the Soviet and British sectors in Berlin, May 14, 1963.

▲Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space, driving through the streets of London in a convertible with a personalized number plate 'YG 1,' July 11, 1961.

▲Construction workers clowning around on the 59th floor of the Pan American Building in New York, June 16, 1962.

▲Better known for his tough guy roles, Edward G. Robinson chats to a policeman at the foot of the Eiffel Tower prior to his appearance in the show 'Grand Night of Paris,' in aid of the International Children's Fund, circa 1950.

▲The M1 Motorway near Luton, UK, built to link London with Birmingham, pictured November 11, 1959.

▲Child laborer working in a South Carolina cotton mill, portrayed by pioneering photojournalist Lewis Hine in 1908.

▲Hollywood heartthrob Clark Gable is all smiles in his Thunderbird sports car, idling in neutral on January 1, 1955.

▲View of the radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki City, as seen from 9.6 km away, in Koyagi-jima, Japan, August 9, 1945.

▲Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, USA.

▲Today a world famous tourist attraction, the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu in Peru as they looked circa 1930.

▲Silent comedy film star Buster Keaton with a wooden doll of himself, given to him as a gift by a German woodcarver.

▲A ticker tape parade to welcome US astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York, after their return from the moon, 1969.

▲A thylacine or 'Tasmanian wolf,' or 'Tasmanian tiger' in captivity, circa 1930. These animals are thought to be extinct, since the last known wild thylacine was shot in 1930 and the last captive one died in 1936.

▲Chief Superintendent William Gilbert lifts the World Cup in March, 1966. With him are Detective Chief Inspector William Little and Commander John Lawler. The trophy was stolen from the National Stamp Exhibition and found by Pickles, a dog out walking with his owner in Norwood, south London.

▲Studio portrait of future American film studio head Walt Disney as an infant, seated in an ornate chair, circa 1902

▲The ruins of San Francisco after the terrible April 1906 earthquake and fire.

▲The final page of Commander Robert Falcon Scott's journal recovered from the South Pole in 1912 by a search party eight months after all members of the expedition died returning from the Pole.

▲The makeshift suit of armor worn by Australian folk hero and bushranger Ned Kelly during his years as an outlaw from the British authorities.

▲A Christie's staff member poses with a painting by Leonardo da Vinci entitled 'Salvator Mundi.' It sold for a record-breaking US$450 million in November, 2017.

▲A caravan of prospectors arriving at the snowy wastes of the Klondike in Canada to join the great Gold Rush, circa 1895.

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover exploring the "Red Planet" on January 23, 2018.

▲A color digital image (left) of a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the same fragment as seen by a high resolution single wavelength infrared imager.

▲Some of the survivors of the 15 April, 1912, Titanic disaster.

▲The most famous conjoined twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, circa 1865.

▲The mouth of Dubai Creek, 1978.

▲These amazing and rare images capture a moment in time, pictured for posterity for future generations to admire. Browse the gallery for a collection of unique snapshots from history.

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Salvador Dalí taking his pet anteater for a stroll in Paris, 1969.

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These amazing and rare images capture a moment in time, pictured for posterity for future generations to admire. Browse the gallery for a collection of unique snapshots from history.