Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug.
Sign
was put up at the 363rd station hospital in
Papua,
New
Guinea during
WWII
How could parents ensure that their children were
getting
sunlight and fresh air when living in apartment
buildings?
The baby cage, ca. 1937
Hotel owner pouring acid in the water when black
people
swam in his pool, ca. 1964
Bookstore ruined by an air raid, London 1940
Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of
her
bomb damaged home, London, 1940
.
Animals being used as a part of medical therapy in
1956
.
Artificial legs, United Kingdom, ca. 1890
.
Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
1920's lifeguard
1928 fashion show at the beach
Former slave showing whipping scars
Measuring bathing suits in the early 1920s. If
they
were too short, the women would be
fined
A space chimp poses for the camera after
a
successful mission to space in
1961
Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923
A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an
atomic
test 75 miles away, Las Vegas, 1953
Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo
advanced
plastic surgery. His eyelids were damaged in
World War I,
and he got a skin transplant to replace
them.
Illegal alcohol being poured out during
Prohibition,
Detroit 1929
Austrian boy receives new shoes during
WWII
The Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated
Children eating their Christmas dinner during
the
Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
Annette Kellerman promoted women's right to
wear
a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907… She
was
arrested for indecency.
Princeton students after a freshman vs.
sophomores
snowball fight in 1893
Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his
side
removing a burnt cross from his front yard,
1960
The original Ronald clown of McDonald's in
1963
Apollo I crew members rehearsing their water
landing
in 1966
President Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks
while
visiting China in 1972
Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, 1908
Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating
Christmas, 1941
Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865
Frozen Niagara
Falls,
1911
Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
A penniless mother hides her face in shame
after
putting her children up for sale,
Chicago, 1948
Putting on a crinoline (skirt support),
1855
Recovering bodies after the Titanic disaster,
April
1912
.
A most beautiful suicide - 23 year old Evelyn
McHale
leapt to her death from an observation deck (83rd
floor)
of the Empire State Building, May 1, 1947. She landed
on a
United Nations limousine…
The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher
Robin,
ca. 1927
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire
at
Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, 1930
New York City fire station, ca. 1912
Operation Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported
by
airplanes to America in 1975
Polish children examined by German officers to see
if
they qualify as Aryan, and would be allowed to
live
Santa Claus in New York, ca. 1900
Smallpox victim, New York, 1881
5:00 P.M., September 3rd, 1967
Sweden changed from driving on the left side to
driving
on the right - this was the
result
Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty
delivered June 17,
1885