Brotherly love without boundaries. Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese homeland caused by air raids of firebombs and atomic bombs. Over the next seven months starting September 1945, he traveled across Western Japan chronicling the devastation, revealing the plight of the bomb victims including the dead, the wounded, the homeless, and orphaned....

She wrote a few lines in German on the back of the photo. “Chanukah, 5692. ‘Judea dies’, thus says the banner. ‘Judea will live forever’, thus respond the lights”. It was the eighth night of Chanukah in Kiel, Germany, a small town with a Jewish population of 500. That year, 1931, the last night Chanukah fell on Friday evening, and Rabbi Akiva Boruch Posner, spiritual leader of the town was hurrying to light the Menorah before the Shabbat set in....

In May 1949, Charles L. Langs announced a daring innovation in beachwear: a pair of bra cups a woman could affix to her breasts with an adhesive. His idea was to use individual strapless cups for each breast, backed with specially developed glue. Langs was a successful entrepreneur having made a fortune by chromium plating the grilles for Cadillac and Ford cars. He teamed up with industrial chemist Charles W....

Alexander Graham Bell kisses his wife Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell inside a tetrahedral framework. 1903. In addition to developing the telephone, the Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell did extensive research in aerodynamics. This series of photographs depict Bell and his colleagues demonstrating and testing out a number of different kite designs, all based upon the tetrahedral structure, to whose pyramid-shaped cells Bell was drawn as they could share joints and lessen the weight-to-surface area ratio....

Caroline Munro (born in 1949) is an English actress, model and singer known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s. Munro’s career commenced in 1966 when her mother and a photographer friend entered some headshots of her in The Evening News’s “Face of the Year” contest: “I wanted to do art. Art was my love. I went to art school in Brighton but I was not very good at it....

The only thing as impressive as the Empire State Building are the men who built it and during that time rules for construction workers were a lot laxer than they are today. The hardworking men way up high who were moving girders, riveting, painting, and even just eating lunch or resting earned a reputation for being daredevils. They worked with minimal harnesses (sometimes without any), walked nonchalantly along beams suspended hundreds of feet above the street, swung on cables, sometimes they even took short naps on the metallic beams....

Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 1938. (Photo by AP). At a ceremony in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford is presented with the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle on his 75th birthday. Henry Ford was the first American recipient of this order, an honor created in 1937 by Adolf Hitler. This was the highest honor Nazi Germany could give to any foreigner and represented Adolf Hitler’s personal admiration and indebtedness to Henry Ford....

Stalin didn’t have Photoshop, but that didn’t keep him from wiping the traces of his enemies from the history books. Using tools that now seem impossibly primitive, Soviet proto-Photoshoppers made “once-famous personalities vanish” and crafted photographs representing Stalin “as the only true friend, comrade, and successor to Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR.” One day a politician may have been in favor, the next he could be facing the firing squad as an enemy of the people....

A Japanese soldier surrendering to three US Marines in the Marshall Islands in January 1944. The soldier is naked because he was probably ordered to strip to be sure that there wasn’t any weapon or explosive concealed. It was very rare for Japanese soldiers to surrender as it was deemed dishonorable. Those huge steel doors, and thick walls, must be a bunker of some kind. Probably a bunker with an artillery gun inside, maybe a coastal battery....

The entrance to Manzanar. Manzanar, Spanish for “apple orchard,” began soon after 1900 in the dream of a fruit-growing empire and today is a national symbol of America’s decision at the onset of World War II to confine thousands of its citizens of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wire. The photos collected here were taken by the legendary photographer Ansel Adams in 1943. After the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Government swiftly moved to begin solving the “Japanese Problem” on the West Coast of the United States....

Driving has not traditionally been viewed as a feminine occupation, a notion even more prevalent in early 20th-century Paris. It was during this time that history was made by the first women to obtain taxi licenses in the city. A 1908 report from The Motor-Car Journal mentions a certain Mademoiselle Gaby Pohlen as having “obtained her driver’s license to drive a motor taxicab from the Prefecture of Police.” However, the story of women driving taxis in Paris may have begun even earlier....

Men stand in a 45-ton steel pipe over the Hoover Dam. Conveying the officials in the photograph is a section of 30ft diameter steel penstock of the soon-to-be-completed Hoover Dam. In the same year, the pouring of the project’s concrete had concluded – a total of 3.25million cubic yards. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. In 1928, the U....

Few Hollywood stars have balanced beauty, talent, and mystique as effortlessly as Michelle Pfeiffer. Rising to become one of the most bankable names of the 1980s and 1990s, Pfeiffer’s work earned her a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and nominations for three Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her path to stardom began with small roles in television and film, gradually leading to her first major breakthrough as the lead in Grease 2 (1982)....

Dutch miners washing each other’s backs in the showers, a daily ritual at the end of the working day, 1945. Miners, who are covered in dust and soot, help each other to get clean in the showers after their shift at a mine in the Netherlands. Despite the hard work underground extracting the coal, the men seem to be in good spirits. Coal dust produced a greasy dirt, which could only be removed by washing and rinsing several times....

Porters with boxes of plants at Covent Garden market. 1877. These rare historical photographs were taken from 1873 to 1877 and are part of Street Life in London , a book that was one of the first examples of social documentary photography. The authors, photographer John Thomson and journalist Adolphe Smith, aimed to reveal by the innovative use of photography and essays the conditions of a life of poverty in London....

The 1980s were a transformative era for Hong Kong, a time when the bustling territory became synonymous with prosperity, culture, and rapid urban development. As a British dependent territory, it stood as a symbol of modernity in Asia, marked by its vibrant politics, burgeoning entertainment industry, and an escalating real estate market that captured global attention. At the dawn of the 1980s, Hong Kong’s population exceeded five million, growing steadily at an average annual rate of 1....

Carl Akeley with the leopard that nearly killed him, 1896. Carl Akeley, considered the father of modern taxidermy, was not only a taxidermist but also a naturalist, sculptor, writer, and inventor. Best known for the Hall of African Mammals that bears his name at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Akeley revolutionized the field of taxidermy by developing a method of reconstructing the animal from the inside out....

DAF Trucks is a renowned Dutch truck manufacturer with its headquarters and manufacturing facility situated in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. Among the noteworthy and renowned features of their trucks lies the concept of removable engines, which aimed to streamline maintenance processes for technicians and mechanics. The idea behind this innovation was to offer a solution that allowed the engines of their trucks and buses to be completely taken out....

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides. The dramatic crisis was also characterized by the fact that it was primarily played out at the White House and the Kremlin level with relatively little input from the respective bureaucracies typically involved in the foreign policy process....

These early photographs, taken by Émile Béchard in Cairo, Egypt during the 1870s, present vivid portraits of local figures such as shopkeepers, street merchants, workes, and dancers. Béchard, active in Cairo from 1869 until 1880, focused on capturing Egyptian subjects through an orientalist lens. His work provides a fascinating glimpse into the everyday lives and vibrant culture of 19th-century Egypt, highlighting the unique characters and atmosphere of the era....