Historical Images

12/02/2023

Children playing on playground equipment in Dallas, Texas. Ca. 1900

12/02/2023

Children Cross the River Using Pulleys on Their Way to School, 1959, Italy

06/27/2023

Sergeant Thomas Dawson with his daughter. Dawson lost his left arm at the Battle of of Inkerman during the Crimean War. The photograph was acquired by Queen Victoria in the 1850s. England, 1855-1856.

06/24/2023

Cars parked at Taylor & Pine Street, San Francisco, USA. ca. 1954. Photo taken by Fred Lyon.

06/23/2023

An undercover police officer on duty. New York, Brooklyn, 1 July 1969.

05/07/2022

Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp (1988)

05/06/2022

Penn Station In 1910 & Madison Square Garden 2019. Same place 110 years apart. (Colorized)

05/05/2022

A man stands on a colossal figure of Ramesses II at the temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt, 1865. (Colorized)

05/04/2022

This method was adopted by the US military postal service, which renamed it "Victory Mail," or "V-Mail" for short, and it proved to be incredibly effective.

03/24/2022

03/18/2022

Horror of horrors!

03/10/2022

Thomas Edison poses with his first electric car, 1895.

03/09/2022

Always keep an eye on your ice cream!

03/09/2022

The opening of the first McDonald in Soviet Union. Moscow, 1990.

03/09/2022

A construction worker making preparations for the removal of the original Statue of Liberty torch in 1985. The old torch went on a tour of the US before it was moved to the Statue of Liberty Museum. Photo by Keith Meyers.

03/08/2022

Woman and her dog in her one room house, Texas, 1938.

03/08/2022

Chinese explorer Zheng He’s ship compared to Christopher Columbus’ “Santa Maria”. They both lived and sailed at the same time.

03/08/2022

“Cowboys in the Sky” …dubbed by a reporter during the construction boom in New York City. 1920-1930

Construction workmen cling to chains as they dangle in mid-air off the side of a skyscraper.

03/08/2022

Map makers before the invention of AutoCAD or GIS software, 1950s.

03/08/2022

Little Inuit girl and her puppy, 1949. (Photo by Richard Harrington)

03/07/2022

A woman walks through the ruins of Berlin during the Battle of Berlin, May 1945

03/07/2022

Szeles Erika Kornelia, 15 year-old Hungarian anti-communist fighter during the 1956 Revolution. She was killed during the revolution.

03/07/2022

Gun safety being taught in an Indiana school, 1956. Photo by Grey Villet as seen in Time Magazine.

03/07/2022

Bronze 'Tsar cannon' - 20' long (6 meters), 39 tons. Designed in 1586 to fire 890-mm stone projectiles capable of knocking down castle walls. Each round weighed 1,700 lbs (770 kg).

There is no official record that it was ever fired in war, scoring on the inner barrel suggests it might have been tested at least once

Per the Guinness Book of Records, it is the largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.

03/06/2022

Ukrainian Restaurant in the U.S. Celebrates the Death of Joseph Stalin, 1953

03/06/2022

A milk vending machine in London, 1940s.

03/06/2022

Lancia Stratos Zero on the streets of Milan in 1970

03/05/2022

This is how a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner did his job.

03/04/2022

Testing out the latest flight helmet in a highly scientific way, 1912.

03/04/2022

Charlie Chaplin at age 27 before he he adopted the iconic mustache, 1916