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
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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.
Automated drive-in delivery metal track at the fast food restaurant “The Track”. Los Angeles, California, USA. 1949.
A man from France tastes Coca-Cola for the first time Paris, 1950.
Serbian lady in national folk clothing, 1910’s.
A chimney sweep and his son go to work, Berlin, 1929.
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Progress of the Eiffel Tower being built.
ZIL automobile factory, Moscow, USSR, 1970s.
A crowd cheers as a beer truck leaves a brewery in Chicago after Congress passed the bill legalizing 3.2 percent beer in April 1933.
Mercédès Jellinek, daughter of automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek, and the namesake for Mercedes-Benz automobiles, 1900.
Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan sit in their Gemini spacecraft with the hatches open while awaiting the arrival of the recovery ship U.S.S. Wasp, June 6, 1966.
Messerschmitt Kabinenroller (A German microcar from 1954).
