Culture and People

A Lithuanian book smuggler, 19th century

Spyros Louis, the first marathon race winner of the Modern Olympic Games, 1896

Proving that London’s double-decker buses were not a tipping hazard, 1933

A Mongolian woman reaches out from the porthole of a crate in which she is imprisoned, 1913

Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance lined up in a propaganda picture, 1900

A mother shows a picture of her son to a returning prisoner of war, 1947

Factory Lectors: Vintage Photos That Reveal the Lives of Workplace Readers in the 1910s

Iron Lungs for Polio Victims: Photos from the 1930s-1950s

Lina Medina, the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, 1939

Packing up human skulls, 1948

Mine worker x-rayed for diamond check, 1954

Night fishing in Hawaii, 1948

The Dangerous Playgrounds of the Past Through Vintage Photographs, 1880s-1940s

Rare photographs capture the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, 1934

Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed Maori heads, 1895

Einstein Sticking his Tongue Out: The Story Behind an Iconic Photo, 1951

Last picture of Nikola Tesla, 1943

Stunning Vintage Photos of Open Air Schools in the Early 20th Century

Women protesting forced hijab days after the Iranian Revolution, 1979

A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on an Italian beach, 1957

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