History in Pictures

1950sunlimited:

Computer of 1958

booksvscigarettes:

House and people living in it in Hamburg, Germany c1904
Photograph by Hans Breuer

“Chinese Opium & Pipe Smokers” that dates to about 1905 or slightly earlier.

lvrbrd-101:

ez a COOL nem a lista…

(Source: lvrbrd-333)

alifewithdenim:

IDAHO FARMER 1939

photograph: Dorothea Lange

(via makrela)

A Sufferer of Smallpox

old photograph of an unidentified smallpox sufferer that comes from my copy of the 1910 medical textbook, “The Diagnosis of Smallpox” by Thomas Frank Ricketts.

lagrige:

by Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Senegalese Smoker (c.1904)

Vintage photographic postcard, circa 1904,

published by Edmond Fortier, Dakar, Senegal.

Winter exercises - Fighting on the frozen swimming-pool  Reims, France c1910

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Children Watching a Puppet Theatre, Paris, 1963

collectivehistory:

Three generations of miners at a Welsh coalmining town, 1950, by W. Eugene Smith. 

The destruction of the ‘Texas’ locomotive in Buster Keaton’s masterpiece The General (1926) was the single most expensive shot in silent cinema history. After the stunt, the wreckage of the locomotive and the bridge remained at the bottom of the river until it was dragged up as part of the WWII scrap metal drive. 

(Source: haroldlloyds)

collective-history:

Neway Auto Wash Bowl. Chicago. 1924. 

(Source: collectivehistory)

un-gif-dans-ta-gueule:

Surprise !