Vintage

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

Pfc John E. Gankawis, 517th Medical Clearing Co., tests an incoming patient for radioactivitiy before sending him forward to the evacuation hospital, during Operation “Fireball” (Darmstadt, Germany, 6th August 1956)

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The White Night, New York. Photo by Adolf Fassbender, 1936.

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A smiling Adolf Hitler with a small kid dressed in uniform taken probably between 1933-39

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“The children of the Sultan of Zanzibar Protected by two palace guards,” photography by John Kirk, 1884

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Country singer Johnny Cash posing outside Folsom Prison before his performance on January 13, 1968

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Canadian militiamen stand over the body of a recently killed Irish soldier who was one of around 1000 Irish veterans from the American Civil war who invaded Canada in 1866 to attack British interests. Fort Erie, June 2nd 1866

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