History in pictures

[Wehan]

Taking a nap during lunch

All aboard the Nope trade to no chance in hell-vile!

 

[jason]

Roza Shanina, a 19 year old Soviet sniper who is credited with fifty-nine confirmed WW2 kills. c. 1944.

 

[jason]

Winnipeg the Bear, the inspiration for "Winnie the Pooh", is seen here with Lt. Harry Colebourn when she was the unofficial mascot of a Canadian cavalry regiment in 1914.

 

[jason]

Successful landing of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey airfield in May 1936, roughly a year before the disaster of 1937.

 

[jason]

Telephone Wires over New York City ca., 1887-1888.

 

[jason]

Air pollution in Pittsburgh, 1940.

 

[jason]

Queue on the opening day of the 1st McDonalds in Moscow, 1990.

 

[jason]

Jaivana

The largest wheeled cannon ever built.

 

[jason]

The original "Star Spangled Banner" that appeared in the dawn's early light over Ft. McHenry 200 years ago today, photographed in the Boston Naval Yard, 1873.

 

[ponderosa]

These are fantastic.

 

[jason]

Circus hippo pulling a cart (1924).

 

[jason]

Traffic signal tower at 34th St and 5th Ave in New York, 1922. This is one of seven towers along 5th Ave that standardized traffic signal colors for the city.

 

[jason]

Bell Telephone engineer in a research room designed to eliminate 99% of all outside sound, 1947.

 

[jason]

Bonnie and Clyde, 1933.

 

[jason]

Testing football helmets in 1912.

 

[jason]

Great fire and earthquake in San Francisco, April 18th, 1906.

 

[jason]

Russian firefighters, Moscow, 1903.

 

[jason]

New Zealand 28th (Maori) Battalion in Egypt performing the haka during WW2.

 

[jason]

This is what Mount Rushmore was supposed to look like before they ran out of funds. 1941.