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07/29/2024

A Sami man and his child in Finnmark, Norway, circa 1900.

07/29/2024

Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) was an American astronomer that revolutionized the way scientists classify stars. In her lifetime she classified about 350,000 stars manually. She also came up with a new system of stellar classification, which is still used to this day. Her system ranks stars as O, B, A, F, G, K or M, with "O" being the hottest stars and "M" the coolest (our sun is a "G" star).

07/29/2024

Construction of the USS Macon airship in circa 1932. The Macon was designed as an airborne aircraft carrier, which could launch and recover aeroplanes for use in both reconnaissance and self-defense. The ship was equipped with a hangar, which could stow and service up to five aircraft in flight. Aircraft were launched and retrieved by means of a trapeze, and could enter and exit the hangar though a large T-shaped opening at the bottom of the hull.

07/29/2024

The Fairchild K-17 aerial camera, used by both the British Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force during WW2. It had a 24" lens and weighed a ridiculous 75 pounds (34kg)! One of the later models of this camera-the Fairchild K-20-was famously used to photograph the nuclear mushroom cloud over Hiroshima.

07/29/2024

Train travel in the late 1800's! These photos show the interiors of a Pullman train car, built by The Pullman Palace Car Company. George Pullman founded the company in 1862, because he was inspired to improve passenger railcars after spending an uncomfortable night sleeping in his seat on a train trip from Buffalo to Westfield, New York.

07/29/2024

A man sitting on top of a cracked Viking runestone in Västergötland, Sweden. This image was taken during a restoration of the stone in 1936. Runestones were primarily raised as memorials to dead relatives, friends or loved ones. They were not used as grave markers, but placed along roads and paths where they could be seen by passersby. Most of Sweden’s surviving runestones date from the end of the Viking Age (11th century AD). The inscription on this runestone reads, "Tole and Torny made these monuments in memory of Tore and Klakke, their sons."

07/29/2024

Polish scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie in her laboratory in Paris, 1912. Curie was not only the first woman to win a Nobel prize, but also one of only two people in history to win two Nobel prizes in two different scientific fields. She won the Nobel prize in 1903 for physics and again in 1911 for chemistry.

07/29/2024

A breakfast menu for 2nd class passengers aboard the Titanic.

07/29/2024

A British couple sleeping under a "Morrison shelter" during World War 2. People used these shelters to protect themselves from collapsing homes during the 'Blitz' bombing raids. March 1941.

07/29/2024

26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, jumping over a fence while on horseback in circa 1902.

07/29/2024

Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley sharing a photo together in 1956. Elvis had just recently left the Sun Record Company and signed a contract with RCA Records. His first record with RCA was 'Heartbreak Hotel'.

07/29/2024

This is Guerra Junqueiro, a Portuguese journalist, author, and poet, in circa 1900. During the lead up to the Portuguese Revolution of 1910, Junqueiro wrote highly satiric poems criticizing conservatism, romanticism, and the Church.

07/29/2024

A Bedouin warrior from 1906. Bedouin warriors are nomadic Arab people who have historically inhabited the desert regions in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and the Levant.

07/29/2024

Nomadic Sami people from Northern Sweden, circa 1880.
Originally the Sami people were hunter gatherers, but around the 17th century they turned to herding domesticated reindeer. The Sami lived their lives following and moving with the great herds of reindeer across huge tracks of land.

07/29/2024

Stacks of lumber drying at the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company’s mill in Seattle, Washington, USA. Ca. 1919.

07/28/2024

Members of the Waterford Bicycle Club pose for a photo. Waterford, Ireland. 1897.

07/28/2024

Italian grocery store owned by the Ronga brothers. New York City, USA. January 1943.

07/28/2024

A group of travelers stand in front of Sogndalsfjorden. Sogndal, Norway. Ca. 1900.

07/28/2024

Two young children sitting in the streets of one of the worst slums in London. England. 1903.

07/28/2024

The footwear department at the department store Magasin du Nord. Copenhagen, Denmark. Ca. 1900.

07/28/2024

A race car loses its wheel at high speed on the Culver City Speedway. Los Angeles, California, USA. November 1924.

07/28/2024

A basketball game between Boy’s High School and Tech High School. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Ca. 1921.

07/28/2024

British archaeologists Alfred Lucas and Arthur Mace work on a statue taken from the antechamber of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Valley of King, Egypt. January 1924.

07/28/2024

A group portrait taken at the wedding of Lars Eide and Gjertrud Leite in Sogndal, Norway. Ca. 1900.

07/28/2024

Five of the contestants in the 1924 Miss America contest walk together. Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. July 1924.

07/28/2024

A German police officer poses for a portrait. Germany, 1925.

07/28/2024

A Caproni Ca.3 plane flying over Venice, Italy. Ca. 1916.

07/28/2024

The Great Wall of China. China, 1907. Photograph taken by Herbert Ponting.

07/28/2024

A group of well dressed people out for a stroll. Copenhagen, Denmark. Ca. 1905.

07/28/2024

Workers constructing wood stave pipeline. Seattle, Washington, USA. 1900.

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