Photos from the past offer a unique glimpse into history, capturing moments and atmospheres that textbooks often fail to convey. They provide an authentic look into bygone eras, illustrating scenes that words alone cannot describe.
Auschwitz staff on holiday, 1942
Angelina Jolie
Marilyn Monroe, 1950
Cindy Crawford, 1990
Self-named Reverend Father Yoder and his wives, 1970s
Thermicon, a hair dryer from the late 19th century. England, 1880s. Boiling water was poured into containers attached to wooden handles and then the hair dryer was to be run through the hair, thereby drying the strands.
Mexican President Porfirio Diaz stands next to an Aztec solar calendar, 1903
View of Manhattan, New York, USA, 1944
Gypsy Rose Lee pulls out cash to contribute to the fight against cerebral palsy during a fashion show in New York, 1945
Price Control in Nazi Germany: A shop is closed by the police because the prices are too high. The shopkeeper is rehabilitated in Dachau.
Sam bin Laden (far right), Oxford, 1971.
Rock ‘n’ roll fans in a dance class, Novokuznetsk, 12 February 1988
Monica Bellucci, 1991
A tattooed lady at the New York World’s Fair, 1939
A farmer called a piglet that tried to push other piglets away from the feed trough and take all the food for itself Hitler and isolated it. London, 1942
A Guardsman fainted just as Queen Elizabeth II rode by on horseback during a parade in London, 1970
Doctors perform CPR on a drowned man while a girl in a swimming costume poses, New York, 1940
Illustration for the story “A psychiatrist who contracted madness from his patient”, 1956
Robert De Niro and Oleg Yankovsky at the Moscow International Film Festival, 1987.
New York City Tunnel Police, 1954
Training before the annual pancake race, Great Britain, 1950s
Canadian soldiers serving in Korea made an improvised hockey court, 1952
Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin, Holmes and Watson without costumes and waistcoats, USSR, 1981
Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio, 1990s.
Steve Jobs in his flat in Woodside, California, 15 December 1982.
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