Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932
Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore recording the music of a Blackfoot chief onto a phonograph, 1916
Railroad bridge from the years 1901-1904, in the State of Oregon, USA
Coney Island on July 22, 1940, as photographed by Weegee
The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
Mongolian shaman, c. 1909
MIT graduating class of 1875, shown 50 years later in 1925
Wyatt Earp at home in Los Angeles, 1923
Russian spy laughing through his execution in finland during The Winter War, 1939
First pig to fly, 1909
Inside The Old Metropolitan Opera House 1937
Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint, one of four events in which Owens won gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, while Nazi propaganda was using the Games of that year to promote concepts of “Aryan racial superiority”. August 3 1936
Halloween in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, c. early twentieth century (exact date unknown)
An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France. British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right – in the middle of the two is no man’s land. July 22, 1917
Loading 5MB of Memory into a Pan am Jet, 1956
The statue of Liberty surrounded by scaffolding as workers complete the final stages in Paris c. 1885
Ex-slaves attend reunion convention. Washington D.C. – October, 1916
Emperor Meiji in full court dress, 1872
The Cologne cathedral stands tall amidst the ruins of the city after allied bombings, 1944
Opium Den, Singapore – 1941
Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore recording the music of a Blackfoot chief onto a phonograph, 1916
Railroad bridge from the years 1901-1904, in the State of Oregon, USA
Coney Island on July 22, 1940, as photographed by Weegee
The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
Mongolian shaman, c. 1909
MIT graduating class of 1875, shown 50 years later in 1925
Wyatt Earp at home in Los Angeles, 1923
Russian spy laughing through his execution in finland during The Winter War, 1939
First pig to fly, 1909
Inside The Old Metropolitan Opera House 1937
Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint, one of four events in which Owens won gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, while Nazi propaganda was using the Games of that year to promote concepts of “Aryan racial superiority”. August 3 1936
Halloween in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, c. early twentieth century (exact date unknown)
An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France. British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right – in the middle of the two is no man’s land. July 22, 1917
Loading 5MB of Memory into a Pan am Jet, 1956
The statue of Liberty surrounded by scaffolding as workers complete the final stages in Paris c. 1885
Ex-slaves attend reunion convention. Washington D.C. – October, 1916
Emperor Meiji in full court dress, 1872
The Cologne cathedral stands tall amidst the ruins of the city after allied bombings, 1944
Opium Den, Singapore – 1941
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