In February of 1905, photographer Geraldine Moodie captured a striking portrait of an Inuit woman named Kootucktuck
Jimi Hendrix, aged 15, with his first electric guitar, 1957.
Unemployed men gathered outside City Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, to apply for park improvement jobs during the Great Depression. (1930)
LA Times publicity photo of a “Bathing Beauty Pageant” featuring contestants from various localities in California, late 1920’s.
Hell on Earth- The Battle of Saipan, June15-July 9, 1944. The battle claimed more than 46,000 military casualties and at least 8,000 civilian deaths. The high percentage of casualties suffered influenced American planning for future assaults, including the projected invasion of Japan.
A French family returns to their village, Buron, northwest of Caen, which was completely wrecked during the fighting. Normandy, France, 18 July 1944
Aerial view of Tokyo after American bombing, March 1945
The Von Erich wrestling family pose for a photo, March 15th 1980
German prisoners-of-war in Moscow. The “Parade of the Vanquished,” the parade of 57,000 POWs was held on 17 July 1944
Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators await their fate in the post-war scrapyard at Kingman AFB, Arizona, 1946
Nikita Khrushchev surrounded by people voting for his resignation, USSR, October 14, 1964
Group of a women undergoing slimming course in a courtyard. USA – New York City, 1922
Children swearing loyalty to Mao Zedong and the Little Red Book during the Cultural Revolution, 1971
Graffiti on the road marking the house where former SS officer and convicted war criminal Joachim Peiper lived after settling in Traves, France. In July 1976, Peiper’s house was firebombed by French Communists, and an unidentified burned body was found clutching a pistol.
Attendees of the Convention for Former Slaves (1916)
Glass negative of a boy with a pug in it’s original form, more than 100 years ago, Virginia, (1890)
Japanese canadian gets notice to be sent to interment camp, (1942)
Marilyn Monroe advertising a polio vaccination campaign (1958)
Workers on Henry Ford’s moving assembly line at the Highland Park plant, Michigan, 1913.
Weighing in at 474 pounds Chauncey Morlan was considered the world’s fattest man in 1890
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