World Historical Pictures

Pin boys work the bowling alleys in New York City, 1910.

American soldier reunites with his wife at train station fittingly named "New Hope." US, 1945.

RMS Titanic departing from Southampton Pier 44. (April 10, 1912)

A New York construction worker walks along a girder high above the city streets, circa 1950. (Photo by Ben McCall).

A cowboy, 1890s. Possibly from California. (Photo from M 2)

This kid’s name is Farrokh Bulsara, also known as Freddie Mercury.

The first-ever “self-service” grocery store, Piggly Wiggly. Circa 1916. In grocery stores of that time, shoppers presented their orders to clerks who then gathered the goods from the store shelves.

Geronimo's final band pictured in front of the train car taking them to prison in Florida. Geronimo is in the front row, third from the right. Immediately to his left is Chief Naiche. In the back row, third from the right is Lozen, the famous woman warrior. This is the only known photograph of her. (1886).

André the Giant riding in a plane in the 1980s.

Henry Ford with an early version of his horseless carriage, 1903.

American troops treat a wounded dog on Orote Peninsula, 1944.

A baby learning how to walk in a wicker frame as mom does laundry. 1910s.

Huntington Beach, California, during the Oil boom of 1928.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship, 1983

March 5, 1953: The 600-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Marine Angel transited the Chicago River. The freighter had only seven inches of clearance on each side at Van Buren Street, and was the largest ship to ply the river.

Women Boxing on a rooftop in 1938, on the top of the Ball Building of Desilu Studios, now Paramount, in Hollywood, California

Stair dust corners introduced at the end of the 19th century to make sweeping easier. They keep dust from accumulating in the corners

Migrant farm worker with his wife and ten children, originally from Oklahoma where he had been tenant farmer, moved to California in 1936.

The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza (created in 1850s). The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but in fact, it is carved of marble.

Mark Twain in the lab of Nikola Tesla, spring of 1894. Twain is holding Tesla's experimental vacuum lamp, which is powered by a loop of wire which is receiving electromagnetic energy from a Tesla coil (not visible). Tesla's face is visible in the background.

Traveling knife sharpener with a customer. United States, early 1910s

A dangerous playground from the 1970s

Kareem Abdul Jabbar, photographed in New York City by Richard Avedon, 1963

Pinball machines being destroyed during the pinball prohibition. They were banned in NYC as well as other major US cities like Chicago and Los Angeles between the 1940s and 1970s

A well-dressed young lady in the 1930s. Almost looks like it could have been taken yesterday.

A knife grinder in New York City, 1896.

Marilyn Monroe approximately four months pregnant in July 1960

In March 1888, a massive blizzard hit the east coast of the United States, stretching from Chesapeake Bay to Canada. The photograph shows an unidentified young man standing in a shoveled area on Madison Avenue and 40th Street in New York City.

Kitchen Retro. Combo sink/stove/fridge.

Jeanne Bauer walks with a DynaTAC mobile phone on 6th Avenue in New York, accompanied by John Mitchell, the Motorola engineer behind the phone. (1983)