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In 1953, the biggest vessel to travel the Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway (at the time) managed to wind its way downtown on the Chicago River. This steel hull behemoth …
Stunning vintage photos of the Marine Angel vessel transiting the Chicago River, 1953 Read More
A cotton sharecropper with his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, 1935. Nobody could tell exactly when it began and nobody could predict when it would end. At …
These Photographs Capture the American struggle during The Great Depression, 1929-1940 Read More
KFC, the fast-food giant, has been a household name for decades, known for its mouth-watering fried chicken and delicious sides. However, have you ever wondered what KFC looked like in …
KFC Through the Years: Vintage Menus and Ads that Will Take You Back Read More
Photo taken in the 1840s. The pictures in this collection are some of the earliest known portrait photographs to ever be taken. The subjects in the photos are older and …
These Daguerreotype Portraits Show the Oldest Generation of People to Ever be Photographed, 1840-1850 Read More
A group of Navajo in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. 1904. Born in Wisconsin in 1868, Edward Sheriff Curtis took to photography at an early age. In 1895 he photographed Princess Angeline, …
A Rare Photo Collection of Native American Life in the Early 1900s Read More
In the world of British innovation, there’s a fascinating collection of ideas that, while incredibly creative, never quite made it into everyday life. These inventions, captured in pictures from the …
These Pictures Show Some of the Wackiest British Inventions of the Past Read More
No one expected the 1969 Woodstock concert and festival to draw a crowd estimated at half-million — nor that the gathering would become a legendary touchstone for the counterculture of …
Stunning Photos Depicting the Rebellious Fashion at Woodstock, 1969 Read More
These pictures are not staged and show Tippi Hedren, star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with her husband, Noel Marshall, her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, and their lion, Neil. In 1969, …
Incredible Photos of Neil, the Pet Lion of Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith, 1971 Read More
A cotton sharecropper with his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, 1935. Nobody could tell exactly when it began and nobody could predict when it would end. At …
These Photographs Capture the American struggle during The Great Depression, 1929-1940 Read More
San Francisco Mission District burning in the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. The original caption reads: “Probably Fulton Street, near Gough. This was the edge of the …
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire in Pictures, 1906 Read More