The ALWEG monorail train, implemented in Cologne, Germany, in 1952, represents a pioneering example of urban transportation in the era of modern engineering.
One of the poorer country girls on the way to Buckeye School. Marlinton, WV, 1921.
One of the first traffic signals in New York City in 1922. Photo courtesy of George Rinhart
José Meiffret was a French cyclist who set a world motor-paced speed record of 204.73 kmh
Human chess in 1924, St. Petersburg, Russia
Construction workers from 1928 in Missouri.
This photo from 1967 shows a U.S. Air Force lieutenant being held captive by a young North Vietnamese soldier during the height of the Vietnam War.
A picture from inside the home of a low income family living near Cincinnati, Ohio during the Great Depression. Hamilton County, Ohio, December 1935.
A daughter teaching her mother how to read, Alabama, 1890.
John DeLorean with one of the first DMC-12s ever produced, 1981
Women on motorcycles in Great Britain, 1930s.
VENICE in 1956
Unharnessed workers scale the heights of New York City’s Woolworth building in 1926.
Two ladies working as ice deliverers carry a large block of ice. September 1918.
The Women gold prospector pulling a sled loaded with provisions through the muddy streets of Skagway, Alaska in 1898
The Pantheon in Rome during the flooding of the Tiber, 1870.
The other side of the Hoover Dam before it was filled with water in 1936.
Oxford Bags , the ridiculously wide-legged trousers of the 1920s
Memorizing your keys in typing class (1960s)
Explostion of the “Warburg” steam locomotive. June 1st, 1869, in Altenbeken, Germany
