Joseph Stalin’s embalmed body during his state funeral, 1953
US President Bill Clinton learns of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabins assassination in 1995
Grinding the primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope at Perkin-Elmer Corporation’s large optics fabrication facility, March 1979. 8 feet in diameter and coated with a reflective layer of aluminum, the mirror had to be serviced to fix flaws shortly after launch
A soldier’s face after four years of war, 1941-1945
Pre Fame Lucille Ball posing to advertise a perfume (1933)
A Detroit Electric car charging up between stops on a promotional tour between Seattle and Mt. Ranier in August 1919.
White supremacists burning a boat tagged “Viet” to terrorize Vietnamese refugees, Santa Fe, Texas, 1981
The Allied landings at Omaha Beach with numerous landing ships and barrage balloons airborne unloading cargo during Operation Overlord in Normandy, France in mid-June 1944
Dancer Cleo de Merode. Often called one of the first (if not the first) modern celebrities, (1903).
Volkswagen VM Type 166 ‘Schwimmwagen’ in Ukraine, 1943
Group of Slavic immigrants waiting to get through the entrance gate – on Ellis Island, New York Harbour, USA, c. 1905.
Programming a computer in 1959 meant punching your code onto hundreds of physical cards
German movie director Leni Riefenstahl, watching in horror as Polish Jews are shot, Końskie, September 12, 1939.
British Home Secretary Winston Churchill, centre left in a top hat, watching the Siege of Sidney Street from cover. Police had surrounded a house where two armed gang members, suspected of killing three officers during a botched jewellery robbery, were barricaded. (1911)
The youngest American KIA in the Vietnam war was Dan Bullock. He was only 14 years old when he enlisted in the USMC in September of 1968 after falsifying his BC. Dan lost his life when the bunker he was in took a direct hit from an RPG in June of 1969. He was just 15 years old
Carolyn and her husband Roy Bryant on trial for the murder of Emmett Till. Carolyn falsely accused the 14 year old of assaulting her and Roy tortured him to death in retaliation, September 22nd 1955.
Auction of 25 enslaved people, 1852. 12 of them are children under 14. Youngest is an infant.
Frida Kahlo lying in bed at La Casa Azul in 1952, 27 years after the bus crash that left her with lifelong pain and inspired her artistic journey.
Bill Clinton & White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, 1998
