A hodgepodge of historical footage from years past. Issue 196

Funny photos, interesting events, and people who made history—all in this new collection.

A hodgepodge of retro photos is always interesting and informative. So you've come just in time! The fresh hodgepodge is already on the table. Welcome, everyone, and enjoy!

In a Soviet department store, 1958.





Richard Avedon's photograph "Dovima with Elephants in a Dior Evening Dress," taken in 1955 in Paris, has become an iconic work of art.

In 2010, it sold for a record sum at Christie's auction – $1,151,976.



Santa Claus riding in a sleigh pulled by turkeys. 1909.



Persian Jewish women, 1880s.



Brigitte Bardot, 1954.



Watermelons. Otero, Colorado, 1910s.



Emperor Nicholas II during a walk in Crimea, 1914.



Mentally ill patients in England, 1910.



"Daddy Long Legs" - an underwater electric railway, 1897.

Magnus Volk created and implemented a seemingly crazy invention - a railway with tracks underwater. Piers served as stations, and a single electric locomotive, resembling a ship, ran between them.



Nurse Catriona MacAskill weighs a baby. The photo was taken in 1959 on the island of North Uist, Scotland.



Transporting India's first satellite on an oxcart. India, 1981.



Four Indian porters carry a Western tourist in a palanquin. India, 1922.



Metalworkers in the USSR, 1980s.



Fire department chief's official car, USA, Michigan, 1958.



Japanese soldiers sculpt a snow figure of Chiang Kai-shek. Manchuria, 1940.



Panama Canal, 1922.





Woman and the Majestic Sequoia, 1950s



This is what the buffet at the Kostroma train station looked like in 1890.



A stripper on the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, late 1970s.



Turkish Sabiha Gken, who in 1937 became the world's first female fighter pilot.



Brigitte Bardot with her pet, 1959.



Audrey Hepburn at a Beverly Hills store with her pet deer, 1956.



Pacific Southwest Airlines flight attendants, USA, 1970s.



Santa Claus delivers gifts to wounded American soldiers on Guadalcanal on Christmas Day, December 25, 1943.



New York punks, 1970s.



An American P-38 Lightning fighter jet discovered in Greenland's glaciers in 1992.



A storage facility for metal floats for anti-submarine barriers, 1953.



5-year-old Albert Einstein, 1884.



A bear cub enjoys a bowl of honey in a cafe, 1950.



Returning Home with Dad. Moscow, USSR, 1977.