40 Amazing Vintage Portraits of Persians Taken by Antoin Sevruguin From the 19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteAntoin Sevruguin is one of the first photographers to document life during the reign of the Qajar dynasty […]
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50 Rare Photos That Show the Building of the Pskov-Riga (Russian Empire) Railway in the 19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteThe building of the Pskov-Riga Railway with its branch line from Valga to Tartu started on the initiative […]
Christine Keeler Photographed by Lewis Morley: The Story Behind the Photo That Launched a Thousand Poses
This post was originally published on this siteThis is the story of a political scandal, a chair, and a photograph. It was 1963 in London, […]
Global Warming Evidence: Shocking Then & Now Photos Reveal What 100 Years of Climate Change Has Done to Arctic Glaciers
This post was originally published on this siteIn the early 1900s, Arctic glaciers were nature’s most mysterious and undiscovered wonders. Over 100 years of research, […]
November 14, 1960: Ruby Bridges’ First Day of School
This post was originally published on this siteSurrounded by U.S. Marshals, six-year-old Ruby Bridges makes her way down the steps of the William Frantz Elementary […]
French Man Found a Box of 35mm Film Rolls in the Trash That Capture Life Inside Nazi POW Camp for Polish Officers
This post was originally published on this siteIt was a winter night in 1999 and Olivier Rempfer, then 19, was walking back to his town […]
"Three Dead Americans on the Beach at Buna" – The First Image of Dead U.S Troops to Appear in Media During WWII
This post was originally published on this sitePhoto That Was Hard to Get Published, but Even Harder to Get LIFE photojournalist George Strock captured an […]
Schoolchildren Salute the Flag in the U.S in 1915, And Here’s What the American Flag Salute Once Looked Like
This post was originally published on this siteThe American schoolchildren in the picture below are showing their loyalty to the flag and country by giving […]
Shocking Photos Show How French Women Were Punished by Shaving Their Head to Publicly for Collaborating With Nazis
This post was originally published on this siteAt the end of World War II, many French people accused of collaboration with Germany endured a particularly […]
Rare and Amazing Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge Under Construction
This post was originally published on this siteWhen it opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the answer to a geographical problem that should be […]
Paintings by Hilma af Klint, the Swedish Woman Who Found Abstraction Before the Modernists
This post was originally published on this siteWhen Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906, they were like little that had […]
The Surreal Photographs by Kansuke Yamamoto, the Pioneer of Japanese Surrealist Photography
This post was originally published on this siteIn the act of appropriating the political voice and thematic structure of European Surrealism and melding it with […]
American Writers Janet Flanner and Solita Solano, the Lesbian Lovers Fled 1920s America for Paris and Lived Their Best Life
This post was originally published on this siteSo said writer and journalist Janet Flanner, when she explained her decision to move to Paris in 1922 […]
24 Amazing Photographs of Burlesque Dancers in the 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteA burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or […]
27 Historical Photos That Show Construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the 1930s
This post was originally published on this siteConstruction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge began with the groundbreaking ceremony on July 9, 1933. Discussion of […]
When 1920s Flappers’ Stocking Postcards Were Considered "Naughty"
This post was originally published on this siteBefore the First World War, postcards served as very important memorabilia. They were used to share personal news, […]
24 Shocking Runaway Slave Ads From the 19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteThroughout the 250-year history of slavery in North America, enslaved people tried to escape. Once newspapers were common, […]
Amazing Vintage Photographs of River Thames Floods From Between the 1910s and 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteThe River Thames bursting its banks, rail lines being washed away, villages being turned into islands and soldiers […]
D-Day in Color: Stunning Retouched Photos of Brave Allied Troops Landing Normandy Beaches in June, 1944
This post was originally published on this siteSome 156,000 Allied troops landed on five Normandy beaches during the operation on June 6, 1944, which would […]
Flooding in the Thames Valley, December 1915
This post was originally published on this siteDuring a House of Commons sitting in February 1915, the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, replying to a question […]
Heart-Wrenching Images Depicting Child Labor in Early 20th Century America Has Been Brought to Life After Being Expertly Colorized
This post was originally published on this sitePhotographer Lewis Wickes Hine once said: “There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings […]
Meet Eugen Weidmann, the Last Person Ever to Be Publicly Executed by Guillotine in 1939
This post was originally published on this siteThe last public execution by guillotine was not as long ago as you may think. It actually took […]
The Model in Britain’s Sex-and-Spy Profumo Scandal: 22 Vintage Photos of Christine Keeler in the 1960s
This post was originally published on this siteChristine Keeler (1942–2017, Orpington, Kent) was an English model who, as one of the central figures in the […]
20 Historic Photos of Africans in European Zoos From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
This post was originally published on this siteOnly in 1935-36 in Europe were closed the last cells with blacks in zoos – in Basle and […]
Extraordinary Running Aground in Alaska: Remarkable Images of the ‘Princess May’ on the Rocks at Lynn, 1910
This post was originally published on this siteRemarkable images of the steamship Princess May, resting at a seemingly impossible angle, after running aground on rocks […]