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.
Learn about the oldest photo in history to survive to the modern day, taken by Nicéphore Niépce in circa 1826.
See this photo taken by Stanley Kubrick during his early photographic career of Chicago at night in January 1949.
The mugshot of Joseph Stalin, the future leader of the Soviet Union, following his arrest in Baku, Azerbaijan in March 1910.
Photo of German Emperor Wilhelm II and Winston Churchill, British Member of Parliament (and future Prime Minister) standing together in 1906.
The Mugshot of the famous American gangster and leader of the Chicago Outfit, “Scarface” Al Capone, taken on the 17th of June 1931.
See a 150-year-old black and white photograph of President Abraham Lincoln in Color created through the process of manual colorization!
Photo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria standing over an elephant that he had hunted in Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka), in January 1893.
Learn the interesting story behind this photograph of the Hotel de Ville in Paris, France in ruins after a fire in 1871.
See the iconic photo St Paul’s survives showing St Paul’s Cathedral intact amongst the smoke and ruins caused by a German air raid in 1940.
See the iconic photograph of Marilyn Monroe taken while filming the movie The Seven Year Itch in September 1954.
Victor Hugo, the iconic French author of Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, and many others, laying on his deathbed in 1885.
