Tokyo in the early 1970s was a city in quiet transition, where postwar recovery had given way to rapid growth, global influences, and a rising youth culture that began to express itself most clearly through clothing. On the streets, everyday fashion became a visible language, shaped not by designers alone but by ordinary ladies navigating work, school, and social life in a changing urban landscape. What they wore reflected both individuality and a subtle break from established norms....

Vladimir Lenin’s piercing stare while in a wheelchair, 1923. This last photo shows Vladimir Lenin in a wheelchair after suffering three stokes in the previous two years. By the end, he was paralyzed and completely mute. Beside him are his sister Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova and one of his doctors A. M. Kozhevnikov. The mental strains of leading a revolution, governing and fighting a civil war aggravated the physical debilitation consequent to the wounds from the attempted assassinations....

Wormwood Street in London after the IRA had detonated a truck bomb on April 24, 1993. Bishopsgate, in the heart of the City of London, was the scene of a devastating IRA bombing. A news photographer was killed in the explosion and 44 people were injured; the damage cost £350 million to repair. The attack came just a year after the Baltic Exchange bombing in the same city, and it targeted the economy of the United Kingdom....

A rare shot of a 21 years old Winston Churchill in the uniform of the Fourth Queen’s Own Hussars, 1895. When Winston Churchill entered the Royal Military College (Sandhurst) few could foresee that he would become one of Great Britain’s greatest war leaders. He tried three times before passing the entrance exam; he applied to be trained for the cavalry rather than the infantry because the required grade was lower and he was not required to learn mathematics, which he disliked....

Dalí with his wife and muse Gala. In 1955, photographer Charles Hewitt visited Salvador Dalí and his wife (and muse) Gala at their home to shoot photos for a British editorial magazine called Picture Post . The famous artist posed up showing his surreal personality and didn’t miss this opportunity to shock his audience. Hewitt ended up titling the photoshoot simply as “ One day with Salvador Dalí ”....

Toni Frissell’s famous image of an abandoned boy clutching a stuffed animal in the rubble of 1945 London. The boy did in fact survive the war and became a truck driver. In the photo he’s sitting outside where his house used to be. Photographer Toni Frissell regarding this picture: “I was told he had come back from playing and found his house a shambles—his mother, father and brother dead under the rubble…he was looking up at the sky, his face an expression of both confusion and defiance....

Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada in 1940) is an American actress and sex symbol who took the worldwide media by storm after the 1966 release of a movie poster featuring her natural assets in a wild and woolly prehistoric bikini. She was the oldest of three children of Armand C. Tejada, a Bolivian structural engineer of Castilian origins, and Josephine Sarah (Hall) Tejada, a statistical clerk at an aircraft factory who was of English and Scottish descent....

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev drinking wine from a drinking horn in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, 1963 The relationship between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev began when Cuba became a communist country and Cuba started to establish close relations with the Soviet Union. Both Fidel and Nikita shared the same beliefs, such as communism being the best type of government rather than capitalism. During the Cold War, Cuba relied on Soviet markets and military aid....

Larry Luckham. Operator Manager. Check out the slide rule in the pocket and the sideburns. Hey, it was the 1960’s! Since the early 1900s Bell Telephone Laboratories or Bell Labs, has been a major source of technological experimentation and change. By the early 1920s, the research effort had grown so large—over 3600 employees by 1924—management decided to split it off into its own organization. Lecture. “I have no idea what I was discussing here, but somebody picked up the camera....

Tsar Nicholas II with daughters (left to right) Maria, Anastasia, Olga and Tatiana Romanov. Most of these rare and relatively intimate pictures of the Imperial Romanov family were taken by the head of the family and Russia’s last tsar himself, Nicholas II. An insatiable photographer, the tsar took great care of his pictures, filing them carefully in numerous albums. He passed down his love for photography to Maria, his third daughter, who was responsible for coloring most of the pictures....

Corporal Yukio Araki (center) holds a puppy in a group photo taken one day before his death, 1945 The photo shows Corporal Yukio Araki (age 17 years old) holding a puppy with four other young men (age 18 and 19 years old) of the 72nd Shinbu Corps. An Asahi Shimbun cameraman took this photo on the day before the departure of the 72nd Shinbu Corps from Bansei Air Base for their kamikaze mission in Okinawa....

Maxwell Street Market, an iconic and vibrant marketplace, played a important role in the cultural and economic landscape of Chicago from the late 19th century until its closure in 1994. Established by newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, this impromptu ghetto market blossomed into a bustling Sunday-only affair that laid the groundwork for Chicago’s flea market culture. The city officially recognized Maxwell Street Market in 1912, and by the time it ceased operations, the market spanned approximately nine square blocks....

The phrase “Behind every great man, there’s an even better woman” carries an unsettling weight when applied to some of history’s darkest figures. The women who stood beside leaders like Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, and Francisco Franco were often swept into the turbulent currents of ambition, ideology, and tyranny. Some actively participated in their partners’ regimes, while others lived in the shadow of decisions that would scar nations....

This is the dramatic moment Muhammad Ali saved a suicidal man who was threatening to jump out of a ninth-floor building in Los Angeles in 1981. Ali (right) is seen leaning out of a window pleading with the man. This is the story of how the famous boxer Muhammad Ali convinced a suicidal young man to come down off the ledge. On January 19, 1981, The Los Angeles Times photographer Boris Yaro heard reports of a suicidal jumper on the radio....

Fat Man on its transport carriage, with liquid asphalt sealant, applied over the casing’s seams. Tinian Island, 1945. It’s so odd to see that an object roughly the same size as a large car can destroy an entire city and leave radioactive damage for lifetimes afterwards. Fat Man was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945....

Photograph taken from the ship “Prinz Adalbert”. Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. The exact size of the iceberg will probably never be known but, according to early newspaper reports the height and length of the iceberg were approximated at 15-30 meters high and 60-120 meters....

Lieutenant Bill Robertson and Lieutenant Alexander Silvashko, Germany, 1945. These iconic photographs were taken the day Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of World War II in Europe. The first image shows American Lieutenant William Robertson and Soviet Lieutenant Alexander Silvashko with their arms around each other, smiling, in front of their national flags. The picture of Robertson and Silvashko was taken on April 26th, the day after the meeting....

The Great Depression, a somber epoch in American history, is often characterized by the stark imagery of hardship. Traditionally, these images have been captured in grainy black and white, offering a glimpse into an era defined by Hoovervilles, snaking unemployment queues, and individuals waiting in line for a morsel of sustenance. However, the stunning collection of photographs by the Library of Congress has shattered this monochromatic narrative, revealing the Great Depression in stunning, vivid color....

The 2800 years old kiss as if to signify that love is eternal. These human remains were unearthed in 1973 at the Teppe Hasanlu archaeological site, located in the Solduz Valley in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. The site was burned after a military attack. The “head wound” is actually from modern-day excavators. According to the Penn Museum: Around 800 BCE, the settlement of Hasanlu in northwestern Iran was destroyed by an as yet unknown invading force....

When people hear the name Apple, they immediately think of sleek devices that have transformed modern life—iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and the Apple Watch. The company’s minimalist aesthetic and cutting-edge tech have made it one of the most recognizable brands in the world. But tucked away in the company’s long and often surprising history is a forgotten chapter that had nothing to do with microchips or software: a short-lived but unforgettable foray into the world of fashion....