Photos of the Last Veterans of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
See photographs of 9 of the last veterans of the American Revolutionary War taken in the 1860s and learn about each of their stories.
See photographs of 9 of the last veterans of the American Revolutionary War taken in the 1860s and learn about each of their stories.
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, the Apollo 11 astronauts, photographed in quarantine after returning to Earth in July 1969.
Take a look into the past with these original color photos of the Russian Empire in the 1910s taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
See a photo of, and learn about the first powered airplane flight on the 17th December 1903 carried out by the Wilbur brothers.
See a photograph of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake which occurred on April 18th, 1906.
Nine Monarchs from across Europe pose for a photograph at Windsor Castle for King Edward VII’s funeral on the 20th of May 1910.
A person shooting another man that is wearing a bulletproof vest in order to show the protection the vest provides, 13 September 1923.
Abraham Lincoln delivering his second inaugural address following his 1864 election win. Taken outside the Capitol building on March 4th 1865.
The inauguration of the first (and only) President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis, outside the Alabama State Capitol, 1861.
A train crashes through the side of Montparnasse Station in Paris, France on the 22nd October 1895 and was photographed over the next 4 days.
Two brothers that survived the sinking of the Titanic were believed to have been orphaned after their father died in the disaster, April 1912.
The first time the Earth’s moon was photographed in detail. Taken by John Draper at the rooftop observatory of New York University in March 1840.
