Joseph Strauss, the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, ordered that a safety net be installed under the bridge during construction. For the time, it was a revolutionary thing. The net “captured” 19 men who had fallen, saving them all from certain death.
Policeman checking the lengths of bathing suits. Chicago, 1922.
Dewey Defeats Truman newspaper 1948
Japanese leaflet dropped on Americans during WWII
Photo of the second of the four presidential debates held during the 1960 presidential election.
Eisenhower first president to use teleprompter 1952
Gangster Mickey Cohen sits amid the front pages of newspapers that helped make him the city’s’ most infamous citizen, Los Angeles, 1949
One of Titanic’s engines.
PC Frederick Godwin offers tea and sympathy to a now homeless man, who returned home from walking his dog to find his house destroyed and wife killed by a V1 flying bomb. London 1944
Releasing messenger pigeon WWI 1914
Messenger dog leaps over German trench WWI 1915
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex, aerial photograph from a 1944 Allied recon plane
John F. Kennedy Jr. at his father’s funeral
The wedding portrait of Zeng Jifen and Nie ji Gui, who were only recently identified. The bride is the daughter of Marquis Zeng Guofan, a high-ranking Chinese official during the Qing dynasty.
Pedestrians in New York City watching news of the Normandy Invasion on an electric marquee near Times Square on D-Day, June 6, 1944
Hydraulic press in Krupp Works at Essen, Germany 1928.
James Loughran family sod house in northeast Custer County, circa 1886.
Mark Twain with John Lewis Sitting on Porch Steps, Elmira, New York, USA, circa 1903
The size of a 5 MB hard drive, 1956
First human photographed 1838 Paris, France. Captured by Louis Daguerre
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