The first image of earth, taken 1946 on a V2 rocket. Clyde Holliday, the engineer who developed the camera, saw the potential: in a 1950 National Geographic article, he predicted that one day “the entire land area of the globe might be mapped in this way”. [2048 x 1619] Comment Vintage Source
King Michael I and Marshal Ion Antonescu on the banks of the Prut River. Just three years after this photo was taken, Michael I would overthrow Antonescu’s regime via a coup. (August, 1941) [524×396] Comment Vintage Source
David Hamilton Jackson in Copenhagen, speaking on behalf of the people of the Danish West Indies. 1915. [3024×4032] 1 Comment Vintage Source
Rosemary Mariner standing in front of her A-7 Corsair II, 1976. Mariner was the very first female Naval Aviator, the first to fly a front line attack aircraft, the first to land on an aircraft carrier, first to serve aboard a warship and the first to gain command of an aviation squadron. [619×619] 2 Comments Vintage Source
Children on swings on Eid occasion at Peshawar market, Pakistan, 1957. Photo by Harrison Forman [2048 x 1333] Comment Vintage Source
Three Jewish HeHalutz fighters after being captured by German soldiers during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. May, 1943. [1280 x 1796] 1 Comment Vintage Source
