A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 140

Interesting and unusual photographs that were taken in the 20th century and at the end of the 19th century in different countries of the world.





Library at Prague Castle, 1950

Judging by the size of the books, giants lived in the castle.

It is quite possible that large books were made for a reason. Such dimensions ensured the accuracy of the written patterns and letters; besides, processing and creating small books is very labor-intensive work. It's absolutely the same as looking at the same drawing on a smartphone and a big screen.



Children playing on a giant oak tree, St. Francisville, Louisiana, 1930

You can see Spanish moss hanging from the tree. This is a rootless plant that clings to the bark of trees with its thin, almost thread-like stems. The stems are covered with scale-like hairs that serve to absorb water.



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Louis and Lola, one of the surviving passengers of the Titanic

The boys were able to survive because their father bought second class tickets on the Titanic. In the third they would have no chance.



Peruvian woman and her child. Andes, 1930s



The Soviet team at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Innsbruck, 1976

In Calgary at the 1986 Winter Olympics, athletes from the USSR also came out in fur, from head to toe. Animal defenders were not yet very active at that time, and the USSR, they say, thus signed a large contract for the supply of furs to the West...



A boy eats ice cream while sitting on a sea mine. England, 1945

Most likely the mine does not have a fuse, and the boy’s weight is too small to activate it.



Cheyenne Indian, Black Wolf, 1921

The Cheyenne lived in Oklahoma, close to Texas; perhaps such “make-up” was part of a ritual culture dedicated to death, like the Mexicans. The very skull-like coloring is reminiscent of “Day of the Dead” in Mexico.



Gilbert Kerr, member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, playing bagpipes for a penguin, 1904



Delivery of Japanese soba noodles. Tokyo, 1935



Schlörwagen car

A quirky, super-aerodynamic but very impractical German car, 1939. The Schlörwagen, like other streamlined cars of that time, had the shape of an airplane wing or a drop.



Woman with bottles of wine and a 1.5 meter baguette. Paris, France, 1946

It would be interesting to look at the oven where such long baguettes were baked.



Louis Armstrong serenades his wife Lucille Wilson - Pyramids of Giza, 1961



Acrobats training on the roof of the Empire State Building, 1934

Acrobats Jarley Smith, Jewel Waddeck and Jimmy Kerrigan on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building.



Turkish fisherman with his catch, 1930



A girl pours ketchup at a Heinz factory, 1897. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA



Torgut princess Nirzhidma with a hunting eagle, 1932
The Dutch diplomat and sinologist Karl Barkman dedicated his novel “Mandate” about the Oirat-Torgut prince Asaray to the memory of Princess Nirjidmaa. He admires her excellent French, fluent English, and Chinese.



Snow-covered Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 1970



A British army officer travels in a hammock carried on the heads of four natives. Sierra Leone, 1920



Crash at Montparnasse station. Paris, 1895



Actress Phyllis Gordon with her pet cheetah. London, 1939

At that time there was a fashion for such pets, but this was a dangerous business and was eventually banned. Well, today there are people who keep very dangerous animals at home.