Albert Einstein in his study at Princeton, New Jersey, USA in 1940
Young Drew Barrymore
Bruce Lee with his family
First beauty contest in the USSR, 1988
The imprint of a kamikaze Mitsubishi Zero along the side of the H.M.S Sussex, 1945
100 years ago: This street scene in Antwerp, Belgium, shows citizens turning out to celebrate the end of World War I, a few hours after the Germans surrendered on November 11th 1918.
Police officer John Shuttleworth, waist-high in flood waters, Cambridge, Ontario, 1974
Michael Jackson drives bumper cars during an event for underprivileged kids at Neverland Ranch in 1994.
Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay, 1911–1914
Bill and Hillary Clinton on their wedding day, 1975
Nurses in their bomb trenches between hospital wards, France, 1918
George Willig scaled the exterior of the World Trade Center’s South Tower in 1977. Completing the climb in 3.5 hours, he was arrested at the top after signing several autographs and was fined $1.10 by the city — a penny for each floor he passed.
Special effects artist A. Arnold “Buddy” Gillespie in the miniatures tank for the movie Ben Hur, 1959
Harold Hamilton, a scientist with the first Australian Antarctic Expedition, with the skeleton of a sea lion, 1913
Arthur Sawyer & a sea elephant pup, 1912
Soviet soldiers, on their backs, launch a volley of bullets at enemy aircraft in June of 1943
Dr. Guy Brewster’s bullet-proof armor, 1917
The Ovitz family, 1950. They are the only family that survived in Auschwitz, where doctor Mengele did experiments on them.
The hellish mines of the 1980s Brazilian gold rush
A young woman working in a textile factory, Russia, 1960
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wilt Chamberlain, and Hugh Hefner hanging out in the 1970s
Warming up the line guard of honor, Russia, the ’90s
Albanian refugees from the cargo ship Vlora in the Italian port of Bari on August 8th, 1991
Happy Easter (yep, that’s supposed to be a bunny)!
A vintage dental chair from years ago in dentistry
A touching picture of American soldiers paying tribute to all the horses that lost their lives in World War I
Playing golf on a building under construction in Los Angeles, 1927
5 good friends in the 1920s
A man at the beach was fined for not wearing appropriate swimwear.
Cars trapped in snow in Idaho, 1952
This carrousel created a centrifugal force that made people stick to the wall and the floor disappeared. Later, this machine was prohibited.
Today this looks incredible but in the past, families of this size were not a rare thing at all.
A busy mom in New Rochelle, New York, 1955
Women multitasking in the 1960s, grocery shopping and getting their hair done
Nina Khrushcheva and Jacqueline Kennedy
A photo of a high school math teacher explaining the physics of surfing in the 1970s
How do you like this Rambo from 1985?
“My family friend went camping over 30 years ago and heard a noise outside the tent. Instead of peaking her head out to see what it could be she reached her hand out with her disposable camera. When the pictures were developed this is what she saw.”