The first known photograph of the White House
See the first photo of the White House, where the President of the United States resides. This image was taken in Jan 1846 by John Plumbe Jr.
See the first photo of the White House, where the President of the United States resides. This image was taken in Jan 1846 by John Plumbe Jr.
See this photo taken by Stanley Kubrick during his early photographic career of Chicago at night in January 1949.
See a rare photograph of a real Japanese Samurai in armour photographed by Felice Beato at the end of the Edo period in Japan.
See the last known photograph taken of the final emperor of the Russian Empire, Tsar Nicholas II.
See the deathbed in which Abraham Lincoln spent his final moments following the successful assassination attempt at Ford’s Theater.
See this photograph of Jakob Nacken, the tallest soldier to fight in World War II. He was a circus performer that served in the German Army.
Two of the most historically important British Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George photographed together in 1934.
John W. January, American Civil War veteran, sitting on a chair showing of his prosthetic legs and his amputated legs in c. 1890.
A person shooting another man that is wearing a bulletproof vest in order to show the protection the vest provides, 13 September 1923.
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.
One of the interesting tactics moonshiners used to evade the law during the Prohibition Era of the United States was to create cow shoes.
