A Red Army veteran confronting an anti-communist protester in the USSR, circa 1990. [1024×749] 2 Comments Vintage
Emperor Taisho of Japan in the robes of the Order of the Garter c 1912. [1408×1832] 1 Comment Vintage
Ukrainian surgeon in lead apron after open-heart surgery on Chernobyl liquidator. Kiev, 1986 [728x1154px] 1 Comment Vintage
A drinker of absinthe, aka ‘La Fée Verte’ [the green fairy] in 1911 Paris. The drink was banned in France in 1914 due to its reputed effects, and the ban would remain until 2011. [281×390] 4 Comments Vintage
Iowa’s living Statue of Liberty image was taken at Camp Dodge in Iowa and used eighteen thousand men. (1918) [1000×1277] 4 Comments Vintage
Kathrine Switzer been pulled back by men trying to stop her from finishing the Boston marathon in 1967. She was the first ever woman to cross the marathon fishing line. [734×430] 6 Comments Vintage