A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 189

Funny photos, interesting events and people who made history - all this in a new selection.


A man poses with a donkey, 1910s





A doll made from a shoe that belonged to a child from the London slums, 1905



5-meter-tall snowman, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1963



Mobile library for the sick in Los Angeles, 1928



The first ambulance in Great Britain, 1920



Street photo studio in Warsaw, 1946



Japanese woman carrying children, 1900s



Mourning mask of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, 1889



Serving snacks on a Scandinavian Airlines flight, 1969



A sparkling wine inspector wearing a special mask to protect against accidental bottle explosions, California, 1933



A man checks his email on a payphone using dial-up access via a Panasonic RL-P4001 Acoustic Coupler modem connected to a Panasonic RL-H1400 HHC laptop, early 1980s



Workshop foremen on blade maker at work, France, early 1900s



In 1965, a group of six Tongan teenagers were shipwrecked off the uninhabited island of Ata and lived there for 15 months



German fan, early 20th century



Transporting a shark from “Jaws” at the exhibition “Science of Film and Television Magic”, Boston, 1988



Car wash, 1924, USA



Steam locomotive crossing the Rio Grande, USA, 1915



Kids on Halloween, 1900s



The last known photograph of Michael Rockefeller, the 23-year-old son of politician and entrepreneur Nelson Rockefeller, among a cannibal tribe in New Guinea, 1961



Workers demonstrate the strength of the body of the 1938 Audi 920

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