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This collection of hand-tinted lantern slides depicts popular tourist destinatio…
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In the 1860s, the Russian-American Telegraph Company set out to telegraphically …
Tucked away among the canyons and mountainous terrain in southern Jordan, the ci…
Grant Wood‘s “American Gothic” shows the images of a man and a woman standing in…
In 1899, a group of French illustrators led by Jean-Marc Côté was tasked with im…
Amasunzu is a traditionally Rwandan hairstyle that was once worn by men, as well as …
In May 1985, as one of the first measures under the new general secretary of the…
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, photographer Clifton R. Adams was commissione…
With the rise of the daily newspapers in the 1880s, more than half of all newspa…
During World War I, the majority of horses and mules in Britain were used to aid…
New Yorkers have been taking the plunge in the Big Apple since the late 1800s, w…
The Spacelander bicycle was designed by Benjamin Bowden for the 1946 exhibition …
These color photos document life in the French army during World War One, and th…