Ford Model A on lubrication rack at Lubeseal service garage, 1930.
Mr. Joseph Davies, a photographer on the Titanic
In 1912, 17-year-old Mr. Joseph Davies, a photographer on the Titanic, tragically perished along with the ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Recently, in 2020, a historian investigating the Titanic’s sinking recovered footage captured by Mr. Joseph’s camera. The camera was found in 1989, miraculously still intact. For years, attempts to recover the footage from the films were unsuccessful until the advancement of state-of-the-art technology in 2020 made it possible. The recovered footage captures the moment when Mr. Joseph lost his life while trying to document the Titanic’s sinking. His remains were never found, leaving his brave and tragic story forever connected to the historic disaster.
Dining Room on the Hindenburg airship, 1920s.
March 5, 1953: The 600-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Marine Angel transited the Chicago River.
Inside a Harley-Davidson factory in the 1920s.
Cyclist from Tarvastu, Estonia, on a self-made wooden bicycle, 1912.
Queen Elizabeth II had 2 severely disabled “secret” cousins, Nerissa and Katherine, hidden from the public until 1987.
Vespa motor scooters in Rome, Italy, 1955.
A Canadian workman inspects munitions to be used by the British, 1942.
The five Romanov children with their heads shaved after an attack of measles, in January 1917.
A Papua New Guinean Native “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel”, guiding an injured Australian soldier home, Christmas Day, 1942.
People parked curbside to watch a plane take off (NYC), 1951.
John Scruggs
John Scruggs was born into slavery in Virginia in 1855. A newsreel crew visited his cabin in 1928 and filmed Scruggs playing banjo for his wife and grandchildren.
This footage contains the only known recording of his music, and it survives thanks to the preservation efforts of the University of South Carolina.
Song : Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane
Pinball machines being destroyed during the pinball prohibition. Banned in major US cities between the 1940s and 1970s.
A man walks along a cleanly swept street in one of German’s destroyed cities, 1945.
Habitat 67, a modular housing complex at the Expo 67 World’s Fair in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1967. Designed by Israel-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie.
Getting gas, mid 1970s.
London, Piccadilly Circus looking up Shaftsbury Ave, circa 1949.
A Pan American World Airways flight attendant preparing in-flight meals in the galley of an airliner. 1950s.
Members of the US Board of Tea Experts meet to taste teas. Their mission was to set up quality standards for imported tea. 1947.
