Photos from the past offer a unique glimpse into history, capturing moments and atmospheres that textbooks often fail to convey. They provide an authentic look into bygone eras, illustrating scenes that words alone cannot describe.
Auschwitz staff on holiday, 1942
Angelina JolieMarilyn Monroe, 1950Cindy Crawford, 1990Self-named Reverend Father Yoder and his wives, 1970s
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Thermicon, a hair dryer from the late 19th century. England, 1880s. Boiling water was poured into containers attached to wooden handles and then the hair dryer was to be run through the hair, thereby drying the strands.
Mexican President Porrio Diaz stands next to an Aztec solar calendar, 19View of Manhattan, New York, USA, 1944Gypsy Rose Lee pulls out cash to contribute to the ght against cerebral palsy during a fashion show in New York, 1945Price Control in Nazi Germany: A shop is closed by the police because the prices are too high. The shopkeeper is rehabilitated in DachSam bin Laden (far right), Oxford, 1971Rock ‘n’ roll fans in a dance class, Novokuznetsk, 12 February 1988Monica Bellucci, 1991A tattooed lady at the New York World’s Fair, 19A farmer called a piglet that tried to push other piglets away from the feed trough and take all the food for itself Hitler and isolated it. London, 1942A Guardsman fainted just as Queen Elizabeth II rode by on horseback during a parade in London, 1970Doctors perform CPR on a drowned man while a girl in a swimming costume poses, New York, 1940Illustration for the story “A psychiatrist who contracted madness from his patient”, 1956New York City Tunnel Police, 1954Training before the annual pancake race, Great Britain, 1950sCanadian soldiers serving in Korea made an improvised hockey court, 1952Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin, Holmes and Watson without costumes and waistcoats, USSR, 1981Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio, 1990s.Steve Jobs in his at in Woodside, California, 15 December 1
