Vintage

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

Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901

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Prohibition agents uncover about $300,000 worth of liquor concealed in a pile of coal when they boarded the coal steamer Maurice Tracy in New York harbor on April 8, 1932. The inspectors shovelled coal for about an hour before they discovered the 3,000 bags of bottled beverages.

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A captured German soldier sits near the destroyed Reichstag in Berlin. A famous photo, often published in books and posters in the USSR under the title “Ende” (German: “The End”).1945.

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German soldiers wade through flooded trenches on the Eastern Front. October 1943.

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Princess Zahra Khanum (1884-1936). Daughter of the King of Persia.

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Tourists looking across the Sahara Desert from the top of the pyramid of Cheops at sunset, circa 1920s.

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