Historical Images

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

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

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.

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

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

Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp (1988)

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

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

V-Mail: A WWII program that scanned messages onto microfilm from 1942 through 1945. - factstory 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.

Horror of horrors!

Thomas Edison poses with his first electric car, 1895.

Always keep an eye on your ice cream!

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

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A milk vending machine in London, 1940s.

Lancia Stratos Zero on the streets of Milan in 1970

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

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

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