Photographs possess an unparalleled capacity to provide us with insights into the past serving as enduring evidence of occurrences from bygone eras some of which may strike us as quite unconventional when viewed through today’s lens freezing freckles off with carbon dioxide was a popular Beauty technique in the 1930s while treatment was applied patients
Eyes were covered with airtight plugs their nostrils filled in for protection and they had to breathe through a small tube we know that the pioneers of the American West hunted Buffalo to near Extinction but this photograph of a mountain of Buffalo skulls taken in 1870 shows how extensive and drastic the
Hunting really was a dancer posing in front of a nuclear arms test in 1950s Nevada a Rwandan man in 1923 with the amazunzu hairstyle the childlike scribblings which reads For Heaven’s Sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself written by the lipstick killer in 1946.
A dinner table set up for 14 unsuspecting guests in 1946. contortionist Lucille winter 1932. a meaning of the Mickey Mouse Club Circa 1930 four unidentified flying objects blowing in the sky at 9 35 a.m on July 15 1952 in Salem Massachusetts medium advocacy forcing a luminous Apparition to appear between her hands
On May 17 1912. Rome’s Capuchin Crypt is home to these ornately arranged skeletons this photo was taken in 1900. after tereska was rescued from a concentration camp in Poland psychologists asked her to draw a picture of what she thought home might be unlike other children who simply Drew
Themselves and their families before the war tereska would only scrawl random chaotic lines Max Factor demonstrates his scientific device the beauty micrometer which detects defects in feminine beauty that are imperceptible to the naked eye young dad and his little girl enjoying a summer day in a park Moscow 1965. Jacqueline bise 1969.
Sophia Lauren and Jane Mansfield 1957. car telephone in 1959 original advertisement for an optician on Boulevard Saint-Germain 1925. ladies at the hair salon New York 1952 toast to the bride 1905. French actress Claudine o’gay best known for her role as Bond girl Dominique domino derval in the James Bond film Thunderball 1960s
Cat relaxing and eating an ice cream 1940. little girls on front door steps playing with their prams and Dolls Dublin Ireland 1960s electric automobile 1900. posing the latest swimwear 1915. Cary Grant outside claridge’s Hotel 1946. Street Market Washington DC 1925. man at the beach fined for not wearing decent clothes teamskirt the Netherlands
1931. couple viewing the Apollo 8 spacecraft launch 1968. a family going on the summer holiday in a Fiat 500 Italy 1967. Marilyn Monroe playing golf with Malcolm Tapp at the Devil’s Cauldron Banff Springs golf course in Alberta Canada 1953. King George VI having fun on a Carnival
Or Fair slide known as Helter Skelter in the UK 1925. women walking with a baby carriage Berlin Germany 1939 the Kennedy family children 1928. men’s beauty contest early 1900s dancer from Valencia Spain 1952. panning for gold California Gold Rush 1848. a waitress on roller skates delivers a
Tray full of food to Hungry customers 1940s mod girl 1960s women in traditional dress in Iceland 1930. teaching kids to swim in the River Thames 1906. Salvador Dali and his wife Gala 1930s Cairo Mary bouncer at Shanghai Reds escorts a customer to the door 1953. French fashion model Jackie maisel 1957.
A couple skating Berlin 1905 Chicago car elevator 1936. Betty Page at the beach 1953 Alfred Hitchcock impersonating Ringo Starr 1964. a woman carrying a large wicker basket a cc Italy say 1951 photo by Thurston Hopkins Capilano suspension bridge Vancouver 1906.
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