Vintage

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

The U.S. Navy’s dirigible Los Angeles, upended after a turbulent wind from the Atlantic flipped the 700-foot airship on its nose at Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1926.[749×1600]

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Sledge dogs in Dawson City, during the Gold Rush. 1899 [710×563]

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Oil derricks at Signal Hill, California, 1941. [1024×767]

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Forced into the Sacramento Assembly Center outside Sacramento, California, UC Berkeley valedictorian, Harvey Akio Itano, missed his graduation ceremonies. Photo by Dorothea Lange, May 1942 [3000×2188]

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In 1961, Leonid Rogozov, the only doctor stationed at the Soviet Antarctic station, removed his appendix by himself – knowing him he would die if the operation was not carried out. [600 x 338]

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King George V meets a child miner in Sunderland, England, 1911. [806 x 1024]

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