Mar
18
Vintage Hand-Washing Posters From the 1900s
The World Health Organization has had an official and recommended method of hand…
Author: RHP
Mar
17
Eva Braun’s Photographic Story: Life and Death with the Führer, 1912-1945
Decades after her death, Eva Braun, the long-time mistress of Adolf Hitler, rema…
Mar
15
When Cleveland Released 1.5 million Balloons and Two Men Died, 1986
In 1986, charity organization United Way of Cleveland thought they had the perfe…
Mar
12
Remembering the Original Woodstock Through Old Photos, 1969
In 1969, more than 400,000 people descended on Bethel, New York, headed to a dai…
Mar
10
Inside the Life of a Traditional American Mother: Photos From 1941
In 1941, LIFE magazine decided to document the lives of one of the biggest singl…
Mar
8
The Hunt for Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann: Photos from 1961
Adolf Eichmann inspired Hannah Arendt's famous phrase ‘the banality of evil’. A …
Mar
6
The Civil Rights Battles in Rare Historical Pictures, 1964
Following World War II, pressures to recognize, challenge, and change inequaliti…
Mar
2
The Construction of Panama Canal in Rare Pictures, 1881-1914
The Panama Canal idea goes back to the 16th century. After understanding the ric…
Mar
2
Fighting Teen Pregnancy in a Small Town High School: Photos From 1971
By the 1970s teenage pregnancies were recognized as a problem worldwide. The con…
Mar
1
The Huge Mobile Phones of the Old Days: Vintage Photos
The history of proto mobile phones goes back to 1908 when a US Patent was issued…
Mar
1
Kyra Petrovskaya: Soviet Sniper Girl and Survivor the Siege of Leningrad, 1940-1980
The Soviet sniper girl Kyra PetrovskayaKyra was born in 1918 on the coast of the…
Feb
28
The Story in Pictures of the Massive Hughes H-4 Hercules, 1945-1947
The largest wooden airplane ever constructed and flown only one time, the H-4 He…
Feb
26
How Stalin’s Propaganda Machine Erased People From Photographs, 1922-1953
Stalin didn’t have Photoshop, but that didn’t keep him from wiping the traces of…
Feb
25
The Visual History of Beatlemania in Rare Pictures From the 1960s
In 1964, the Beatles achieved an unprecedented level of success both in their ho…
Feb
23
When Elvis Presley Joined the Army: Vintage Photos From 1958
Elvis Presley, the “undisputed King of Rock and Roll”, began his career in 1954 …
Feb
23
Rare Photographs of War Dogs with Gas Masks From 1915-1970
There was nothing more terrifying in the trenches than the call of a gas attack …
Feb
22
The New York World’s Fair of 1964 Through a Collection of Amazing Photographs
As a sequel to the successful 1939 New York World’s Fair, the second World’s Fai…
Feb
12
The Original Mickey Mouse Looked a Little Bit Different and Not So Loveable, 1928
When the iconic Mickey Mouse was born, he was maybe not-quite-so-loveable. Some …
Feb
7
Italian Pasta Production in Rare Pictures, 1925-1955
Nothing says Italian food like pasta. Pasta is an integral part of Italy’s food …
Feb
6
A 106-Year Old Armenian Woman Protecting Her Home with an AKM, 1990
A 106-year-old Armenian woman sits in front of her home guarding it with a rifle…