Men working in the rigging of the three-masted steel barque Garthsnaid, 1920

Thelonius Monk, 1959

Members of the Harlem Hellfighters in 1919

Shortest, tallest and fattest men in Europe play cards. 1913

A 17-year old Frida Kahlo poses for a family photo wearing a traditional gentleman’s 3-piece suit, 1924

8th grader Kurt Cobain playing drums at an assembly at Montesano High School, 1981

Private James Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky in 1962

Earliest known photo of Elvis Presley, with parents Gladys & Vernon in 1938

Samurai in Training, 1860

Enlisted men aboard an American ship hear the news of Japan’s surrender. 1945

A photo taken in secret of the Supreme Court in session, one of only two ever taken. 1932

The only known photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, before giving his famous address. November 19, 1863

A large crowd, made up of many African Americans, mourn the death of Abraham Lincoln outside the Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi

Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin, 1931

In 1939 20,000 Nazi supporters held a rally in Madison Square Garden

Times Square, 1957

Paper boys at 2 A.M. about to start their morning rounds. February 12, 1908

The Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre, 1911

A war-weary French woman pours a British soldier a cup of tea during the fighting following the Allied landings in Normandy. 1944

Adolf Hitler speaking with Princess Olga of Yugoslavia, 1939

Prince Charles and Princess Diana on vacation in Bahamas, 1982

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B-17 bombardier heading toward Germany, 1940’s

Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900. Left to right: Britain, United States, Australia,India, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Japan

A Group of Samurai in front of Egypt’s Sphinx, 1864

The final moments of a Japanese Dive Bomber, 1945

A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on a beach at Rimini, Italy, in 1957

English archaeologist Howard Carter entered the sealed burial chamber of King Tutankhamen 1923. Curse of the Tutankhamun? The first of the “mysterious” deaths was that of Lord Carnarvon. He had been bitten by a mosquito, and later slashed the bite accidentally while shaving. It became infected and blood poisoning resulted. … Skeptics have pointed out that many others who visited the tomb or helped to discover it lived long and healthy lives. A study showed that of the 58 people who were present when the tomb and sarcophagus were opened, only eight died within a dozen years. All the others were still alive, including Howard Carter, who died of lymphoma in 1939 at the age of 64. The last survivor, American archaeologist J.O. Kinnaman, died in 1961, a full 39 years after the event.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers prior to D-Day. Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944. Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned. The free men of the world are marching together to victory. I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory. Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking

Kon-Tiki, a raft built by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in an attempt to prove that pre-Columbian South Americans could reach Polynesia. He succeeded 1947

Two black students are harassed by classmates on their way to school – Little Rock, Arkansas 1957

12 year old Lo Manh Hung who was probably the youngest photo journalist in South Vietnam, February 18, 1968

Reagan meets with the Afghan mujahideen, 1983

Bobby Fisher playing 50 opponents simultaneously. He won 47, lost 1 and drew 2. 1964

A Mongolian woman sentenced to die by starvation reaches out from the porthole of a crate in which she is imprisoned, c. July 1913. This photo was taken in July 1913 by French photographer Albert Kahn. Albert Kahn was a millionaire banker who pioneered color photography using the process invented by the Lumière brothers. During his trip through exotic countries, Albert Kahn visited Mongolia where he took this picture of a woman who was condemned to slow and painful starvation by being deposited in a remote desert inside a wooden crate that was to become her tomb. Initially the bowls on the ground had water in it, though was not intentionally refilled, and the person inside was allowed to beg for food which often just prolonged their suffering as they generally didn’t get enough food for the passersby. The photographer had to leave her in the box because it would be against a prime directive of anthropologists to intervene in another cultures law and order system.

Troops of the US 89th Infantry Division trying to cross the River Rhine under heavy fire. Oberwesel, Germany. March 26 1945

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery signs the surrender of German forces in the Netherlands, in northwest Germany and Denmark – 4th May 1945. After lunch, Field Marshal Montgomery called the Germans back for further consultation, and there he delivered his ultimatum … He told the Germans: “You must understand three things: Firstly, you must surrender to me unconditionally all the German forces in Holland, Friesen and the Frisian Islands and Helgoland and all other islands in Schleswig-Holstein and in Denmark. Secondly, when you have done that, I am prepared to discuss with you the implications of your surrender: how we will dispose of those surrendered troops, how we will occupy the surrendered territory, how we will deal with the civilians, and so forth. And my third point: If you do not agree to Point 1, the surrender, then I will go on with the war and I will be delighted to do so.” Monty added, as an after-thought, “All your soldiers and civilians may be killed.”

Marie Curie, the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, in her laboratory in Paris, 1912

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Vietnam War 1965

U.S. military authorities prepare to hang Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg, Germany, on May 28, 1946. He used 1200 Dachau prisoner’s for a malaria experiment

Serial killer John Wayne Gacy poses with First Lady Roslynn Carter. This picture would become an embarrassment for the Secret Service as the pin Gacy is wearing indicates security clearance. 1978

Marshland in front of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Potomac River, in 1917. Work is underway to turn this site into the 2,000-foot-long reflecting pool

Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, built in 1874

Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII

Arthritis-ridden Renoir painting flowers at his garden, circa 1910’s

Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917

Alcatraz Prison Menu from 1946

Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932

Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint August 3 1936

Salvador Dalí on a carriage drawn by his goat, 1953

Newly liberated inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp chase down and beat a former kapo (a prisoner assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor in the camp). Kapos were picked for their brutality towards fellow prisoners and received additional privileges, 16 April 1945.

Typical grocery store queue in Vilnius (the capital of current Lithuania), 1990, USSR consumer goods shortage

Disneyland’s “Rocket to the Moon”, 1967

A thylacine or ‘Tasmanian tiger’ in captivity, circa 1930. The last thylacine died in captivity in 1936

Citizen Kane premiere, 1941

Ty Cobb “sliding” into home – 1920

Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson & wife, 1910s

German Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) tank neatly shot through the barrel – Belarus 1941

The identification card of Anny Horowitz, a French Jewish girl murdered in Auschwitz, 1940

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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, somewhere in Arkansas, USA, circa 1933

Adolf Hitler visits the tomb of Napoleon at Les Invalides, Paris, France (1940)

Oldest known photo of a tornado, taken about 20 miles SW of Howard, South Dakota, United States. (August 28th, 1884)

Prostitutes in Can Tho, Vietnam, 1970 by Philip Jones Griffith

Billy the Kid, 1879

East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989

Spectators at a slave auction in the town square of Easton, Maryland, c. 1850’s

Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio at the Fairmont Banff Hotel in Banff, Canada, five months before their wedding. August 19, 1953

Rasputin and groupies. Gorokhovo street flat, Saint Petersburg, 1914

SS officer initiation – 1938

The moment of detonation at Nagasaki August 9, 1945

Recording an episode of “Gang Busters”, true crime radio show, New York, 1930’s

Authenticated photo of Jesse James and Robert Ford, ca.1880’s

Eva Braun at the Berghof, undated

PFC Richie sniffs at the delicate perfume of his girlfriend in Jay, Oklahoma, as he opens her letter in Vietnam, April 12, 1966

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An East German soldier ignores orders to let no one pass and helps a boy, who was found on the opposite side from his family, cross the newly formed ‘Berlin Wall’- 1961

Bonnie and Clyde’s car after they were killed, 1934

Hippie girl in Washington Square Park, 1968

In 1989, wanting to see how the American’s lived, Boris Yeltsin made an unscheduled visit to Randall’s supermarket in Houston. Between trying free samples of cheese and produce and staring at the meat selections, Yeltsin roamed the aisles of Randall’s nodding his head in amazement

Princess Diana meets comedian Rowan Atkinson while greeting the

Chester E. McDuffee’s patented diving suit c. 1911

Harriet Tubman in 1911. She was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery; escaped and subsequently made about thirteen missions to rescue others through the Underground Railroad organization

Harriet Tubman threatened death to escaping slaves if they wanted to turn back. “If he was weak enough to give out, he’d be weak enough to betray us all, and all who had helped us; and do you think I’d let so many die just for one coward man.” 

Hundreds of Russian children wearing gas masks, Leningrad, 1937

A crowd of youths taunt Dorothy Counts, 15, as she walks to the previously all-white Harding High School to enroll, September 4, 1957, Charlotte, NC. Leaving the school, she was pelted with trash, small sticks and pebbles

On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school -she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat, threw trash, and yelled epithets at her as she entered the building.

Charlotte Observer photographer Don Sturkey captured the ugly incident on film, and in the days that followed, the searing image appeared not just in the local paper but in newspapers around the world.

A week later, the girl in the photograph was gone. Her parents -having been told by the school administrators and police officials that they could not guarantee her safety -sent her to live with a relative in suburban Philadelphia, where she could peacefully attend an integrated school.

Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961

German air raid on Moscow in 1941

Bread and soup during the Great Depression

Hitler’s bunker

This room is thought to have been the Fuhrer’s command center conference room – which was partially burned out by SS troops and stripped of evidence by invading Russians in 1945

A ripped, blood stained and burnt sofa inside the bunker – which was located under the Reichschancellery building in the heart of Berlin. Hitler lived in the Führerbunker with Braun for the last months of the war

A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941

U.S. Army veteran Shawn Timothy Nelson drives a M60A3 Patton tank on a slow paced police chase through San Diego, California

The Priscilla Nuclear Test detonation during Operation Plumbbob. A series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957

A wave of mass suicides swept Nazi Germany at the close of WW2. Here, the Deputy Mayor of Leipzig and his wife and daughter, committed suicide in the Neues Rathaus as American troops were entering the city on 20 April 1945

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium, 1900, Chicago

Messenger dog in mid-air while leaping over a German trench, possibly near Sedan, May 1917

Railroad bridge from the years 1901-1904, in the State of Oregon, USA

Actress Jean Harlow poses with boxer Primo Carnera, 1933

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Very interesting selection of historical photos.

1912 World Series

Fidel Castro laying a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, 1959

British SAS back from a 3 month long patrol, North Africa, January 18, 1943

Japanese plane shot down during the Battle of Saipan, near Saipan; circa June 15 – July 9, 1944

Contrails above London after dogfight between british and german aircraft. September 1940

Benjamin, the last Tasmanian Tiger, at Beaumaris Zoo in 1933

A shell shocked reindeer as World War II planes drop bombs, by Yevgeny Khaldei, Mourmansk, Russia, 1941

Earliest aerial photograph of an American city, titled “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It” – Taken from a hot air balloon Oct, 1860

Mount Rushmore Before Carving

Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke’s family photo left behind on the moon -1972

Brighton Swimming Club in their top hats and swim suits, 1863

The Mighty Titanic Prepares to Leave Port. 1912

Liberated Jewish man holds NAZI soldier at gunpoint during WWII, unknown date

Colourized image of Osama Bin Laden (age 14, second from right) and Family in Sweden, 1971

Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren, 1909

Photographer Lewis Hine shot images of young boys smoking cigarettes to emphasize the harmful effects of child labor. ca. 1880

John McCain being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi-1967

The Berlin Wall coming down. (November 11, 1989)

German air raid on Moscow, 1941

Men eating bread and soup in a breadline during the Great Depression

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