Culture and People

With nylon stockings scarce, women would paint their legs so it looked like stockings, 1940s

John Lennon signs an autograph for Mark Chapman – his murderer, 1980

Dora Ratjen, a German Olympic athlete, who was arrested at a train station on suspicion of being a man in a dress, 1938

Photographs capture the first bananas in Norway, 1905

Named by Life magazine as the “The Most Beautiful Suicide”: Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947

The Unbroken Seal on King Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922

Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug, 1941

The iceberg that sunk the Titanic, 1912

The Kiss of Life – A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967

Toffs and Toughs – The photo that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937

Albert Einstein’s matriculation certificate, 1896

Old photographs of Rat-catchers, 1900s

Women boxing on a roof, 1938

Feeding polar bears from a tank, 1950

The First Photograph upon Discovery of Machu Picchu, 1911

Einstein’s Desk Photographed a Day after His Death, 1955

Nine Kings in One Photo, 1910: Four Years Later, They Were Enemies at War

Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923

Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920

Opium den in Singapore, 1941

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