Albert Einstein giving a lecture on the Theory of Relativity, 1922

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Swiss explorer, mountaineer and skier, Xavier Mertz, and his team of huskies in Adelie Land in 1912

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The Girl with the Chin Tattoo, 1863

Olive Ann Oatman was the first white American woman to have a tattoo. Born in 1837 in Illinois, Oatman was kidnapped and enslaved by a Native American tribe when she was 14 years old, along with her sister in present-day Arizona in 1851.

A year later, they were sold to the Mohave people and in keeping with the tribal customs, both Oatman girls were tattooed on their chins and arms. Such tattoos were only given to their own people to ensure that they would both enter the land of the dead and be recognized as Mohaves by their ancestors.

Oatman spoke fondly of her time with the Mohaves and declared, “to the honor of these savages let it be said, they never offered the least unchaste abuse to me.” In 1854, she chose not to reveal herself to white railroad workers who spent time in the Mohave Valley trading and interacting with the tribe. Her younger sister died of starvation a year or two later when there was a severe drought in the region.

Soon rumors of a white girl living with the Mohaves spread and the authorities at Fort Yuma demanded her release. Initially resisting the request, the Mohaves relented under the threat of violence. Oatman was escorted on a 20-day journey to Fort Yuma where she discovered that her brother Lorenzo was still alive and had been looking for them.

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Fannie Mills (1860 – 1899) aka “The Ohio Big Foot Girl” suffered from Milroy Disease which causes disruption of the normal drainage of lymph which leads to fluid accumulation in the legs and feet.

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Winners of the Miss Correct Posture Contest, 1956

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Early halloween costumes from the late 19th/early 20th century

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Micky Mouse Club, 1930s

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Shrek was rumored to have been based off of a real person named Maurice Tillet, a Russian-born French professional wrestler, aka The French Angel, 1940s

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Beauty pageant winners, 1922

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Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple who fought Virginia’s law against interracial marriages. They would go on to end all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the US in 1967.During the trial, Richard Loving told his attorney to just prove one thing to the court, “Show them that I love my wife.”

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Inuit woman, Nome, Alaska, 1903

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A young Ho Chi Minh speaking to the French Communist Party in Paris in 1920

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Omaha beach head, 3 days after D-Day. June 9, 1944

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Crowd in Times Square, New York City celebrating the surrender of Germany, May 7th, 1945.

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The McDonald brothers in front of the not yet opened first McDonald’s, November 1948, San Bernadino, CA

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John F. Kennedy consults with his brother Robert Kennedy during campaigning. 1960

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Men celebrating the end of prohibition, December 5, 1933

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The first public demonstration of a computer mouse, graphical user interface, windowed computing, hypertext and word processing, 1968

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An old Italian woman shows her gratitude to one of the American soldiers following the liberation of Italy, 1945

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One the warehouses filled with victims’ shoes up to the ceiling. Auschwitz, Occupied Poland 1944

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Gay club in Paris, France in 1934

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A British couple sleeps inside a “Morrison shelter” used as protection from collapsing homes during the WWII ‘Blitz’ bombing raids March 1941

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The lottery used by the Selective Service to determine who would be drafted for Vietnam. United States, 1969

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A victim of American bombing, ethnic Cambodian guerrilla Danh Son Huol is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp on the Ca Mau Peninsula, September 15, 1970

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The 12 women in this photo had 775 confirmed nazi kills

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