Here's photographer Jack Reilly prancing about the 74-story-tall Bank of Manhattan while it was under construction in 1929:
This is what a typical children's playground looked like in 1908:
This is Marcia Pinkenfield, winner of the "Most Beautiful Child In America" contest in 1927:
Here's the contestants of the World's Most Beautiful Legs competition in 1951:
This is pilot Charles Godefroy flying his plane through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris:
Here's a totally safe and not concerning picture of a baby playing with a ton of baby alligators at a California alligator farm:
Here's a photo of a horse casually jumping over a table of soldiers eating lunch:
"Living photograph" featuring over 20,000 men paying tribute to Woodrow Wilson:
One of the biggest fads of the 1950s was "phonebooth stuffing," where-in a bunch of people would, well, stuff themselves into a phonebooth:
The world record at the time was 25 people stuffed into a phone booth. Truly an example of the triumph of the human spirit.
This smiling fellow is a lab technician hired to observe couples kissing in order to gauge the durability of lipstick:
This is what was known as an "auto-thriller," basically a rollercoaster for your car:
The Michelin Man not only used to be absolutely terrifying, but he used to run with a gang of several other musically inclined Michelin men:
Here's a circus performer wrestling an alligator inside a tank:
This is H.L. Bowdoin with the deep sea diving suit he invented:
This is Danish clothier Christian Troelstrup and the building he covered with over a thousand coats to attract buyers:
During WWI this church in France stacked sandbags throughout the entirety of the structure to protect it:
Due to part to the modern discovery of King Tut's tomb, Egypt was so popular in the UK that there were even pharaoh themed gas pumps:
This was a short-lived way to transport prisoners on motorcycle:
During World War II, babies in England were fitted with baby-sized gas masks that were comically large:
This is the Dale Creek Bridge, an bridge built in Wyoming in the 1800s that was so rickety that trains had to slow down to 4 miles per hour to cross it safely:
This is one very, very, very safe example of what a baby's car seat used to look like in the 1950s and 60s:
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An is the first name of mrs Bridge
This gets celebrated and yet when Bronson Potter did the same thing with a train bridge in New Hampshire in the 70's they took his license away...