This film was shot on April 14, 1906, just four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire that destroyed over 80% of the city.
Walt Lyons and his daughter captured this incredible lightning storm with a high-speed camera as they chased it from Rapid City to Wall, South Dakota.
In this vintage Tour de France photo from 10 July 1934, we see Federico Ezquerra during Stage 7’s 228 km mountain trek.
In this portrait by Lars Focke, we get a sense of the stark white landscape of Antarctica. Can anyone find the horizon line in this image?
“Detroit: Evolution of a City” is an incredible study of the growth, decline and revival of the city of Detroit through historic and present-day pictures.
Watch these 1930s daredevils show off their parkour skills in this vintage clip!
Photograph by Clément Belleudy The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet…
Photograph by Howard Hollem, Edward Meyer or MacLaugharie In this poignant photograph, people at Times Square in New York City are seen reading a news ticker about D-Day (Normandy landings), the largest seaborne invasion in history. D-Day occurred on 6 June 1944 when Allied forces targeted a 50-mile (80 km) stretch of Normandy, France…
Elicia Edijanto is an Indonesian artist currently living in Jakarta. In an ongoing series, the painter and graphic designer captures the unique connection between animals and children using only black and white watercolors. Children are seen standing alongside creatures of the wild like elephants, wolves and bears with peace and confidence. The dreamlike-scenes are…
The Library of Congress has a fascinating series of vintage movie theatre “etiquette” posters from 1912. At the time, films were silent as movies with sound didn’t become prevalent until the late 1920s. Sadly, a September 2013 report by the United States Library of Congress announced that a total of 70% of American silent…
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