Prepare to be fascinated.
Men working in the rigging of the three-masted steel barque Garthsnaid, 1920
Thelonius Monk, 1959
Members of the Harlem Hellfighters in 1919
Shortest, tallest and fattest men in Europe play cards. 1913
A 17-year old Frida Kahlo poses for a family photo wearing a traditional gentleman’s 3-piece suit, 1924
8th grader Kurt Cobain playing drums at an assembly at Montesano High School, 1981
Private James Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky in 1962
Earliest known photo of Elvis Presley, with parents Gladys & Vernon in 1938
Samurai in Training, 1860
Enlisted men aboard an American ship hear the news of Japan’s surrender. 1945
A photo taken in secret of the Supreme Court in session, one of only two ever taken. 1932
The only known photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, before giving his famous address. November 19, 1863
A large crowd, made up of many African Americans, mourn the death of Abraham Lincoln outside the Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi
Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin, 1931
In 1939 20,000 Nazi supporters held a rally in Madison Square Garden
Times Square, 1957
Paper boys at 2 A.M. about to start their morning rounds. February 12, 1908
The Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre, 1911
A war-weary French woman pours a British soldier a cup of tea during the fighting following the Allied landings in Normandy. 1944
Adolf Hitler speaking with Princess Olga of Yugoslavia, 1939
Prince Charles and Princess Diana on vacation in Bahamas, 1982