There are some old photographs so rarely seen that you can stare at them for hours on end. Behind every picture from the past, there stands the past lives of thousands of our unknown ancestors.
Here are just a few of these kinds of photograph.

Axar.az presents some of them. Take a look — it’s always interesting to contemplate what they tell us about the world, and ourselves.

1. Bikers, 1960s.

2. A boy watches television for the first time through a shop WINDOW, 1948.

3. Fawzia Fuad, Princess of Iran and Queen of Egypt, 1939.

4. The brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, who founded famous sport’s companies Adidas and Puma.

5. Soldiers of the Caucasus, early 20th century.


6. Players of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Chicago Black Hawks search for Jack Evans’ lost contact lens during an ice hockey game, 1962.