Vintage

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

The botched execution of Silan Lewis. The sheriff missed shooting him in the heart and is then seen here trying to smother Lewis to death. The photo was widely circulated and led to the end of allowing Native American tribes to perform their own executions. Nov 4, 1894

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The first ever underwater photograph, c. 1899

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Mercedes Formula One steering wheel, 1954 & 2014

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Mississippi’s First Interracial Couple August 3, 1970

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An armed “cantinera”, a female soldier supporting chilean troops in the war against Peru and Bolivia (1879-1884), poses with her Martini-Henry rifle

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Great Grandfather’s brother in WW I (1918)

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