1. Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, by Fred Ramage, 1945

2. 13 June 1944: An English brewery donates a sizable amount of fresh beer for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created,  strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields. Flying at feet chills the brew to perfection.

3. An aerial view of the
WWI Loos-Hulluch trench
system in France.  British trenches are
situated on the left
of the photo,
and German trenches on the right – in
the middle of the
two is no man’s land.
July 22, 1917

4. 1865: Hanging hooded bodies of the
four Lincoln assassination conspirators.

5. The morning after a long night awaiting a Viet Cong ambush that never came 40 miles East of Saigon, Vietnam, 1965.

6. Leonard Siffleet, captured Australian commando who fought in WWII,  moments prior to being beheaded by a member of the
Imperial Japanese Navy. 1943

7. Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps
Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps.  Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple. 1945

8. The end of WWII is celebrated in Moscow’s Red Square. May 9, 1945

9. US Government mockups of how
Hitler could have disguised himself

10. NASA before Powerpoint

11. A shot from atop Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning during game 7 of the 1960 World Series. 
The Pirates defeated the Yankees with a walk off home run by Bill Mazeroski.  Photo was taken moments after the home run

12. The Muffin man in 1910 London

13. A man having his nose measured
during Aryan race determination tests, 1940

14. Loggers in California with the felled giant ‘Mark Twain redwood’, 1892

15. A man trying to sell his car after losing
all in the Great Crash of 1929

16. Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic
revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini.
Iran, 1960

17. The Titanic in dry dock 1912

18. King George V’s coach. England, c. 1920
 A beggar running alongside
King George V’s coach. England,
c. 1920 

19. The smallest shop in London – a shoe salesman
with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900.

21. Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896