A Russian woman cries as she is reunited with a soldier after the war. Moscow, 1945

John Lennon in George Harrison's psychedelic painted Mini in Kent, 1967

A German soldier gives some bread to a young Russian boy, near the city of Volkhov. 1942

Hindenburg in my hometown 

The bedroom of a teenager in East Germany that was under surveillance, a declassified photograph taken by the Stasi, c. 1980's.

Joe Cobb, former "fat boy" in the original "Our Gang" comedies, now helps build B-25 bombers at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation 1942 

The English team giving the Nazi salute at the Olympiastadion in Berlin  May 1938

A belly dancer on the London Underground, London, 1968 

Final days of Samurai, Ca.1868 Japan

U.S. Army officer in Vietnam using a cigarette to burn leeches off his forearms, photograph by Larry Burrows 

Korean Women Ironing, c 1910

Construction of the Pentagon 1942-1943

Training camp for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto, Ontario 1928 

Child glass workers in West Virginia taking a quick lunch break, c.1900s

Canadian firefighters seal an oil well in Kuwait after Iraqi sabotage during the Gulf War, 1991 

Philippe Petit tightrope walking between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, August 7, 1974 

Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, 1909 

A London policeman gives tea to a homeless man after a V1 attack that killed his wife, and destroyed his home, 1944

A graveyard detail is coming ashore from the hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) with the coffins of troops who died of their wounds aboard the ship. Okinawa, Japan, July 31, 1945.

A RAF airman is buried with full military honours by occupying German soldiers. Jersey, Channel Islands. 1943

A federal agent inspects a 'lumber' truck after smelling alcohol during the prohibition period 1926

A Union regiment formed into square formation which was used to counter cavalry, c. 1862. 

The ruins of Richmond, Virginia, 1865

Woman Suffrage Headquarters, Ohio 1912. The 1912 measure failed, 57% to 43%. It was eventually passed in 1919

Donna Gottschalk, with a "I am your worst fear" poster, at Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day parade in New York 1970  photo by Diana Davies

Badly Damaged Syrian T-34 Tank in the Golan Heights. 6 day war. 

Stalin smiles like Borat, 1915

Opening ceremonies of Tokyo Olympics, 1964

1900 NYC in color

High school football game continues as a fire rages on at a school in Northfield, Massachusetts, 1965

President Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Chicago via Union Station, 1915, Chicago

Old newspaper seller displaying headline, "Shah Left (شاه رفت)." In Tehran, Iran. - January 16, 1979. 

Group of Marines take a break during the Battle of Okinawa to give a baby goat, some water, by J.R. Eyerman April 1945

A view across the devastation of Halifax, looking toward the Dartmouth side of the harbour, following the largest man-made, non-nuclear explosion ever which killed approx. 2000 people. SS IMO (one of the involved ships) can be seen aground on the far side

Children and adults share a blanket while sleeping at their bomb shelter in southwest London, 1949

A Marshallese woman dressed in a kimono during the Japanese occupation of the Marshall Islands. Undated photo from 1930s. 

A group of Jews walking down a road in Poland, one holding a sign that says "to Palestine," September 1939.

April 1958, a policeman checks the stab wounds on Johnny Stompanato's body; he was the girlfriend of Hollywood star Lana Turner

Three deadly serious WWI Russian soldiers in a fake car, Russia, 1916 

Jimmy Stewart, home from the war, helps clear the table at his parents' house, 1945

September 28, 1972 with 34 seconds left in the third period Frank Lennon captures the Canadian goal at the Luzhniki Arena in Moscow,Russia

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in Grand Prairie, Texas, September, 1960. Paul Schutzer

Anti-busing protestor attacks a passing attorney with the American flag on Boston's City Hall plaza. Photo by Stanley Forman 1977. 

A Japanese torpedo bomber goes down in flames after a direct hit by 5-inch shells from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, on October 25, 1944

My great uncle Ernest Ellington posing with his bomber crew during WWII. He was the tail gunner. He's the second from the left on the bottom row. 

Madison Square near the Flatiron Building in New York City, July 1918

Color image from 1909-1912 of Imperial Russia by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

First ever photograph of the English national football team, 1876 

Angelo S. Klonis during the Battle of Saipan June 14, 1944; photo by W Eugene Smith

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Baby Prince William and Prince Charles playing during their tour of New Zealand in 1983.

Gough Whitlam pouring local sand into Vincent Lingiari's hand symbolizing the recognition of the Gurindji people's land rights, 1975

Gunners on board the USS Phoenix looking for kamikazes, the Philippines, Dec '44 Jan '45

A soldier equips an elephant-mounted machine gun during WWI, c.1914-1918

Three dogs, five pipes, sixteen loaves of bread and one bottle of booze! U.S. Quartermasters Dept., photograph taken November 1864.

Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1913. "Jack Suckling and cyclists outside Speedy Cycle Works, Manchester Street.

Fourth of July weekend. Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, in the 1920's

Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman to fly to space when she launched on the Vostok 6 mission June 16, 1963 

Two German soldiers relaxing in a shallow trench on the Eastern Front, c. 1915.

Surrounded by F6F Hellcat fighter planes, ordnance men working on bombs while officers and other crew members watch a movie in the background. USS Yorktown, October 1950.

A policeman directs buses in the intersection of Trafalgar Square in London, May 1929

V-J Day in Times Square; In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. Taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 15th of August, 1945. 

Grassmarket, Edinburgh. circa 1860.

October 1942. F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach, Calif. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer 

Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper credited with an estimated 400 kills, including 225 in a five week span during the Battle of Stalingrad, October 1942

Year opening at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, communist era (year unknown)

A woman chases the dragon in her own private opium den, San Francisco c1920

Afternoon newsboys, Newark NJ, 1909 

Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepts Japanese surrender, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945

President Reagan shows his boot to journalists during a press conference in Santa Barbara, 13 August 1981.

A group of Jews walking down a road in Poland, one holding a sign that says "to Palestine," September 1939. 

A helper lubricates the chain of the Italian cyclist Gino Sciardis during the 1949 Tour de France.

A train on the Lucin Cutoff trestle bridge over the Great Salt Lake in Utah, April 1923

Charles C. Ebbets takes a photo from atop a skyscraper in New York City, 1905. Pic by Unknown.

A German soldier returns home only to find his family no longer there. Frankfurt, 1946 - by Tony Vaccaro 

German soldiers search Polish POWs near Warsaw, September 1939.

Roger Bannister becomes the first human to run a mile in under 4 minutes. 1954.

Upper Michigan circa 1899. "The loggers."

Birds-eye view of Shanghai, 1946

Is this Grant Wood? 1935

Messenger Boys Strike in Chicago, 1902.