Vintage

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

8.8cm Flak 18 crews in Hamburg prepare to salute elements of the Condor Legion return from Spain – May 1939

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The Day England’s Footballers Gave the Nazi Salute (1938)

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“Babe Ruth Bows Out” / Photograph by Nathaniel Fein. In ill health with throat cancer, Ruth attended the 25th anniversary celebration of the opening of Yankee Stadium in 1948. Two months after the photograph was taken he was dead.

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Italian cyclist Gino Sciardis getting his bike lubricated during the 1949 Tour de France

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Obaysch, a Hippopotamus in Regent’s Park, London (1852)

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The experimental aircraft XB-70 Valkyrie in a midair collision with a F-104 Starfighter during a photo shoot for General Electric, June 8, 1969

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