A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 179

Imagine a world without photographs — how much we might never see! Thanks to the invention of the camera, we have pieces of the past frozen in time and we can “visit” places we’ve never been.

The History Photos Sealed In Time online project is a great gallery of historical and vintage photographs from around the world that you can visit at any time.

1. A tricycle gang in Brooklyn. New York (1930s)

2. A Danish zoo employee walks emperor penguins on a hot summer day in 1957

3. Man in the Fog, London, 1935. Photo by Arthur Tanner

4. Girls Jumping Rope, Chicago, 1950. Author Marvin E. Newman

5. Christmas in London, 1948 year

6. Hippodrome on the island of Norderney. Four Ladies in White Dresses, Germany, 1908. Otto Haeckel

7. Farm Life in Western Norway, 1890s

8. A Heavy Burden. Edward S. Curtis, 1908

9. Passengers at a train station, Germany, 1940s. Paul Wolfe

10. Two Ladies Under One Umbrella, London, 1959

11. Milkman in Amsterdam, Holland, 1953 year

12. Running Man. Paris, Photo by Sabina Weiss, 1953

13. A girl looks longingly at fresh pastries in a bakery window. Whitechapel, London, 1930s

14. Sharecropper's son tilling a field, 1938. Photo by Russell Lee, New Madrid County, Missouri

15. Man and Bird, Tyneside, England, ca. 1937. Edith Tudor Hart

16. Cotton mill workers in Lancashire, England, 1908

17. Laffarne, Wales, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1959 g.

18. The mailbox is attached to a German tram, the postman is emptying the mailbox. Berlin, 1920

19. The Great Flood of 1910 in Paris, France

20. Farm Women, Gulf of Naples, Italy 1958 Leonard Fried

21. Choir girls reading on the set of the film "You Can't Have It All", 1937

22. A farmer goes into the house to hide from a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936

23. New York Stock Exchange ticker operators in 1915

24. Whiskey boat on the Rhine River, Dusseldorf, 1957, Leonard Fried

25. Unemployed miner returns home from Jarrow, England, 1937, Bill Brandt

26. Cecil Beaton's photograph of Tilly Losch (1930s)

27. Little Sarakatsana spinning wool, 1940s. Takis Tloupas

28. The Saunter family packing fruit, Ray Road, Epping, Sydney. 1911 Rex Hazlewood

29. Paris, 1952. Edouard Bouba

30. Liverpool, photo by Paul Trevor, 1975

31. Photo by Gianni Berengo Gardin, 1953 g.

32. Girls picking blueberries, 1920s

33. Rue Mouffetard, Paris, circa 1945. Photo by Brassai

34. Louvre Embankment, Paris, photo by Marcel Bovis, 1946

35. Nuns, Rio de Janeiro, 1955, Ormond Gigli