The world’s last commercial sailing ship – the Pamir – around Cape Horn, 1949
Mary Smith, a “knocker-upper” who earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at windows to wake people for work (East London, 1930s)
Old view of mahkdoon sahib , Srinagar Kashmir valley in 1899
A typical American family in the 1950s, Detroit, Michigan.
San Francisco in 1960
Young girl during the Great Depression 1930s.
A construction worker takes a break from constructing the Chrysler Building, New York, 1930.
The crowd on State Street, Chicago, 1895.
Portrait of a young grumpy girl from 1850.
1934: A Swissair stewardess standing in front of a Curtiss T-32 Condor airliner at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, 1934. The Condor was first European airliner to have a stewardess. Flight Attendant Uniforms Through The Years
The RMS Oceanic, operated by the White Star Line, was launched on January 14, 1899, and was one of the most advanced and luxurious liners of its time. Built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, it was designed to carry 1,710 passengers and 349 crew members. The ship featured lavish first-class accommodations, including a dining room with a piano and organ, a library, and a smoke room. Second and third-class accommodations were also spacious and comfortable, albeit less opulent . The Oceanic departed Belfast for Liverpool on August 26, 1899, where it was received with great fanfare before embarking on its maiden voyage to New York on September 6, 1899 . During World War I, the Oceanic served as an armed merchant cruiser for the Royal Navy until it ran aground and was wrecked off the coast of Foula, Shetland, on September 8, 1914 . Photo credited by: Ste Midgley
First German Sequence-Controlled Electronic Digital Calculator. Physicist Heinz Billing¹ at the controls of his newest invention, the G1 calculator with Wilhelm Hopmann checking for a loose tube socket. The G1 was a mostly electronic vacuum tube based machine he built by June 1952 at the Arbeitsgruppe Numerische Rechenmaschinen (Working Group on Numerical Calculators) Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen, Germany. Powered by 476 vacuum tubes and 101 mechanical relays consuming 2.4 kW, the 7.2 kHz machine had a slow speed of 3 operations/sec because of the bottleneck imposed by the use of mechanical relay components. It was 32-bit serial calculator with only 36 words stored on an tiny 8″ drum memory spinning at 3000 rpm with 9 read/write heads, the drum storing variables only so the machine had a Harvard architecture. The calculator was controlled entirely by programs on four selectable punched tapes, all the contents of each single track on the drum can be shifted cyclica.
A couple from 1850!
A family during the great depression.
A French woman walks the streets of Paris France with her baguette and six bottles of wine, 1945. Photo by Branson Decou
A construction worker takes a break from building the Chrysler Building, New York, 1930.
A cowboy in the 1890s.
Beechnut Chewing Gum girl making a sale, Harlem (1940s)
Construction of the Manhatten Bridge in 1908.
A liberated Jew holds a Nazi guard at gunpoint.
