American athlete Jesse Owens in London after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Drunk Ernest Hemingway plays soccer with a can of beer. USA. (1959).
May 17, 1957: During the movie “Jailhouse Rock” in Hollywood, Elvis met two girls suffering from polio. He met Beth Currier and Elaine Brockway in California. Beth, age 14, confined to a wheelchair, gave Elvis an “Elvis” scrapbook that was mostly made with her mouth.
English actress Ellen Terry. This photo looks great modern but was taken 158 years ago (in 1864). Ellen Terry went on to have a distinguished acting career and died in 1928. (Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron).
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) working as a mechanic during WW2, 1943.
American engineer Edwin Armstrong, inventor of the superheterodyne radio receiver, with his wife Esther Marion MacInnis. Armstrong built the radio as a gift for Esther. Palm Beach, Florida, USA (1923).
Last known photo of Charlie Chaplin. He passed away on December 25, 1977.
When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, “What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you.” “It’s true.” Replied Chaplin, “But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one understands you.”
Vintage photo of a Vermont Railways Snow Plow, 1973.
Family with 13 kids, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925.
Charging an electric AMC Gremlin at a curbside charging station. 1hr for 25¢. Seattle, 1973.
A Cathedral of Light Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1937.
Office life before the invention of AutoCAD and other drafting softwares. (1970s).
Parents taken their baby ice skating, circa 1930’s.
Sculptor Felix de Weldon working on the plaster model of the US Marine Corps War Memorial, circa 1954.
Woolworths, Sydney Australia, 1960. An entire supermarket with practically no plastic yet. Everything is in cardboard or foil, wax-paper, tin, glass bottles with metal caps.
Passers-by study a new map of Europe after World War I, 1918.
YB-49 flying wing prototype during a routine test flight, 1947.
