1. Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938
2. Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885
3. Elvis in the Army, 1958
4. Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956
5. Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923
6. Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916
7. Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937
8. Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
9. Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency
10. Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
11. 106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990
12. Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937
13. The original Ronald McDonald, 1963
14. Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961
15. Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII
16. Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
17. Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940
18. Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
19. Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
20. Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940
21. Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917
22. Suntan vending machine, 1949
23. Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920′s
24. Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960
25. Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964
26. Lifeguard on the coast, 1920′s
27. Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890
28. Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953
29. Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
30. Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII
31. Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
32. Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
33. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
34. Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
35. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
36. A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961
37. Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929
38. Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893
39. A beautiful suicide.
23 year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947
40. First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967
