Forget boring old photos! Rare Historical Images and Videos.
There weren’t a huge range of available cars in the Eastern Block, and the production of them were continously delayed. After someone paid an advance, he might wait 10-15 years to get the car in hand. And there were countries where the waiting time was even longer! The Communist Era was never able to produce […]
1889. Johnstown, Pennsylvania. After a big storm.
Actually the chosen title not really covers the reality because the illustrations presented below are not specifically designed for comics. Still, style and theme choice all reflect the world of comics. In this series, I’m presenting some of the less well-known drawers, who designed the covers and illustrations for the most popular American-adventure books. The […]
An unknown gentleman bought this czechoslovak Skoda Octavia Combi on New-Zealand in the 1960s.
Actually the chosen title not really covers the reality because the illustrations presented below are not specifically designed for comics. Still, style and theme choice all reflect the world of comics. In this series, I’m presenting some of the less well-known drawers, who designed the covers and illustrations for the most popular American-adventure books. The […]
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare! Cincinnati’s Price Hill Incline in the early 1900s 1913. Grinding metal at Crewe railway works, England 1919. Fish vendor in soviet Arkhangelsk 1930. Illegal distillery in Poland 1931. Archaeologists excavating the agora in Athens discovered a well hewn into the rock that contained the remains of 450 babies […]
1957. The Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep, also known as the flying Jeep, was developed for the US Army to takeoff and land vertically. They believed they could completely unleash the old rolling off-road vehicle. 1900. American woodcutters 1913. First all-Russian Olympic Games in Kiev. Riding and mowing Gymnastic with rakes and mowers. 1914. […]
1918. Tarzan of the Apes 1925. 1931. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1951. 1952. 1958. 1958. 1960. 1960. 1961. 1962. 1962. 1962. 1962. 1962. 1963. 1963. 1964. 1965. 1966. 1968. 1968. 1968. […]
The Soviet Union is an inexhaustible source of interesting, disturbing, shocking or simply rare photos. Here’s a pack of ’em: 1920. H.G. Wells meets V. I. Lenin 1922. Mounting of high-voltage power lines towers without crane. The upper parts were always rolled up (see right) 1927. From 1909 to 1930 there was a […]
If we hear the name Tippi Hedren, we do not have much to think about. But she is Melanie Griffith’s mother and she is an actress (Hitchcock: Birds, Marnie), a model, an anti-Vietnam war activist and an enthusiastic animal protector. She created the Shambala Lion Wildlife Reserve.
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare! 1901. Playground in Russian Empire, Cherkassy city. The name of the game is giant step 1910. US-Mexico border 1911. The 16 ton anchor for SS Titanic leaving N. Hingley & Sons, Netherton Iron Works, UK 1916. Cleaner vacuum cleaning the 2nd class wagons on the Russian Empire railway 1919. Red terror era. […]
Peter van Wijk – a Dutch merchant ship’s radioman – is the one who came to New York in the summer of 1979 and photographed the bustling, vivid color metropolis with his machine. You can see the whole collection at the same time, just as nowhere before.
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare The Blizzard of 1910 was considered the worst snowsorm to hit New York since 1888. A trolley plowed through the snow and wind during the heavy snowfall on New York streets in Jan. 1910.
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Istanbul. Bosphorus. Meeting East and West. Meeting Europe and Asia. Meeting modernization and traditions. This is Istanbul today and fifty years ago.
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare. 1907. The fire that destroyed the famous victorian Cliff House hotel in San Francisco
From Australia, French and North-Africa to the States.
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare. Today some 18+! images are in at the end. 1886. Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov, older brother of Lenin. Hanged for an attempted assasination of Tzar Alexander III, aged 21.
88 sites, covers and ads from american Overdrive magazine between 1968-1978.
Today we will visiting in the 1980s’ Liverpool and its region. Watch out, 52 kicking photos coming! Liverpool fell to the depths never before seen in the early eighties. The economic recession, which is heavily affected by the city (and the country), mainly due to the shrinking industrial production and the endless factory closures have […]
1893. American ‘Case’ steam tractor
Phil Roeder uploaded his fathers photos to Flickr, who served in the US Air Force in the 1950s. Photographs made in Okinawa, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and the Philippines and show the region shortly after the war. Macao and Hong Kong are not yet part of China (UK and Portugal), Okinawa is ocuppied by Americans and […]
Watch this 1977 SEARS catalogue! Toys for kids. Selected 101 sites from whole 40 years old issue. Click to enlarge (be patient, sometimes takin’ for a while)! [envira-gallery id=”13512261″] source