Vintage

Historical photographs and pictures taken in the context of a verifiable, historically significant event.

Albert Spalding with the Chicago White Stockings and The All-American Tourists when they played in Cairo, Egypt on their world tour to promote baseball. (1889) [4240×5814]

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Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945. Showing Meliton Kantaria and Mikhail Yegorov raising the flag of the Soviet Union atop the Reichstag building.[1200 x 1550]

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Before alarm clocks were affordable, ‘knocker- ups’ were used to wake people early in the morning UK around 1900 (612 × 688)

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A Bosnian girl, holding an AK-47 rifle smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service at Sarajevo’s Lion’s cemetery on Monday, Sept. 14, 1992.[500×704]

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Finnish trade unions pay tribute to martyrs of the labour movement in front of the Helsinki Cathedral on May Day, 1971 [1644×1080]

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Lewis Wiser, a circus performer known as “Unzie the Albino”, ca. 1895 [585×420]

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