Vintage

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

Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes’ plane

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A strongman in the French army lifting a cannon overhead along with three of his comrades astride it, 1917

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Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen with his first wife Navarana Mequpaluk ca. 1912. Freuchen was once trapped in ice for 30 hours and escaped by making a chisel out of his own frozen feces. Not only that, he then amputated his frostbitten toes with pincers and a hammer

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These twins toddlers on a Russian street are so well protected against the cold that they look like penguins, 1968

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The 3245 year old seal on Tutankhamen’s tomb before it was broken, 1922

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Women protesting forced Hijab days after the revolution, Iran, 1979

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