Old Pics Archive

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Original Titanic crew, 1912

Irish Guards in London, England, remain at attention after a fellow guardsman faints, 1966.

Juri Gagarin (first man in space) and Valentina Tereshkova (first lady in space), 1963

Twelve female snipers from the Soviet Union's 3rd Shock Army in 1945 with a combined kill count of 775.

 

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The Paris Library floods [1910]

Be lady-like

Seoul. Beggars. 1952.

Atomic filmmakers. Camera men filming the atomic blast of Wasp Prime Test, during Operation Teapot. Nevada, 2/18/55

Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein

Major Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Major General John A. McClelland, Oct 1862

WW1 submarine with a hull number of U-118 was found washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, Sussex, England, 1919.

 

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New York City, 1936

the first miss america contest, 1921

US tanks and GIs entering Rome, 5 June 1944

Adolf Hitler 1899 /in the middle of the back row

Muhammad Ali and two unimpressed people. London, 1966.

Old X-Ray Machine

"Taxi" in 1886 Japan. Photography by Adolpho Farsari

The recording of the MGM Lion. [1929]

 

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Bertha Benz driving the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, c. 1886

5th Avenue and 59th Street, New York City, 1897.

First hair dryer - about 1920

Female Indian telephone switchboard operator, Helen of Many Glacier Hotel, June 1925.

1800s. military commanders were ordering troops to kill buffalo to deny native Americans their own source of food

Muhammad Ali knocks-out Sonny Liston, 2 minutes and 8 seconds in Lewiston, Maine, 1965

A firing squad of the US. Ninth Army executes 16 year old Heinz Petry of Hitler Jugend for espionage, Germany,1945

Lenin Square, Uzbekistan, 1966-1972

 

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Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in Giza (1961)

Steven Spielberg & shark

Putin.

Cigarette vending machine in England delivered a lit cigarette for a penny, 1931

Afghan Guides, 2nd Anglo-Afghan War, ca. 1879

This is remarkable work of art This picture is made from faces of 670 soldiers who died in the Iraq War...

Cairo 1916

Female road sweepers cleaning the streets of Liverpool as the men are away fighting. 21st March 1916.

 

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Great Alaska earthquake, measured magnitude 9.2.

Einstein with a guitar

Telephone Operator, ca 1911

Women of steel working during wartime, November 27, 1942. soon to be a statue in Sheffield (2)

 

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Queue on the opening day of the 1st McDonald’s in Moscow, 1990

Inventor Hugo Gernsback is Demonstrating His Television Goggles in 1963

Man and woman towing a cargo-boat through a ship-canal. The Netherlands, 1931.

First public payphones in Los Angeles, CA, 1899

 

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French girl being punished for having sex with a German.. 1944

Late 1960s, Economy Class Seating on a Pan-Am 747

Angela Merkel in 1990

The moment of detonation at Nagasaki 1945.

An ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s)

Excavation of the Sphinx, ca 1850...

Daliborka Stojšić, Miss Universe of Yugoslavia, with a MiG-21F. 1968

 

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Bob Marley and Mick Jagger

Nazi soldiers react as they are forced to watch footage from concentration camps.

female Armenian guerrilla fighters, 1895.

Cassius Clay knocks out the Beatles, February 7th, 1964

The British never fail to impress.

Women in Chicago being arrested for wearing one piece bathing suits and showing a little leg. 1922.

 

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Subway Tokyo poster, 1927

A 124 year old toilet paper roll patent…

vintage computing '67

Elvis Presley on stage in Las Vegas, 1969.

Native American children taken from their families and put into school

The Public Library of Cincinnati, Ohio (built in 1874)

Jackie Kennedy reaches for help after President JFK is shot in Dallas, Texas 1963.

 

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1800s. military commanders were ordering troops to kill buffalo to deny native Americans their own source of food

New York City, 1955

1930s Linkedin profile.

Queen Elizabeth II riding sidesaddle

Abba, 1974.

Children cross the river using pulleys on their way to school in the outskirts of Modena, Italy, 1959

 

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1928: Filming the MGM credits.

Star Wars creator George Lucas with the prototype for R2-D2, 1975.

Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution, 1960

Brighter than a thousand suns: Eyes that have seen a nuclear blast. Hiroshima, Japan.

 

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Clint Eastwood skateboarding in Rome, 1964

Female workers during a strike at Citroen, 1930s.

1960: Che Guevara and Fidel Castro on a fishing trip.

BMW Isetta, 1955

1966: A space selfie, taken by astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin.

Kurdish men executed after the revolution in Iran, Sine 1979

Jonathan the turtle in year 1900 and today.

 

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Einstein and his therapist.

Australian man stands with his new Aboriginals captives. c. 1910s

The World’s First digital camera 1975

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Francis Ford Coppola on the set of The Godfather. Photo by Steve Shapiro.

1972

Apple’s Touchscreen “iPhone” Prototype from 1983

Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane Wilde, 1965.

the genius of Albert Einstein.

 

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Boston Marathon 1967 - Organizers attempt to stop a woman from running the race

1981

Barack Obama and his mother

Afghan Women in 1950 vs. 2013