Photos from the past (40 photos)

A selection of interesting photographs from the past. Not only ours, and not only close.

Alaska, 1955 Photographer Jean-Philippe Charbonnier





Gwyneth Paltrow, WSJ Magazine, 2018. Photographer Lachlan Bailey



- Well, what are you, what?! Photographer Alexander Petrosyan



Siberia, 1964 Photographer Mario De Byasi



Montserrat Caballe. Photographer Piero Marsili Libelli



In the shop. Photographer Romualdas Pozherskis



In the laundry. Photographer Piero Marsili Libelli



Czech Bodybuilding Championship, Hradec Kralove, 1996. Photographer Dana Kindrova



Spectators of the USSR-France football match at the Dynamo stadium, Moscow, October 23, 1955. Photographer Jean-Philippe Charbonnier



Madonna and Francois Nars, 1991 Photographer Steven Meisel



Legendary Soviet Georgian water polo player Petre Mshvenieradze with his grandson, 1990



General Augusto Pinochet with adjutants, Santiago, Chile, 1973. Photographer Thomas Hoepker



Claudia Schiffer, 1990. Photographer Marco Glaviano



Matisse painting a reclining model, Paris, 1939. Photographer Brassaï



Mickey Rourke. Arles, 1995 Photographer Richard Ozhar



Muhammad Ali, world heavyweight boxing champion with Johnny Coulomb, champion of 1910, in his Chicago gym, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1966. Photographer Thomas Hoepker



A couple of Kiowa and Lakota Indians. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992. Photographer Richard Auzhard



Sculpture workshop, 1935. Photographer Emil Savitri



Puppy love, 1988. Photographer Harold Feinstein



Gypsy with a horse, Romania, 1968. Photographer Josef Koudelka



Miners, Dhanbad, Bihar State, India, 1989. By Sebastian Salgado



Old Arbat, Moscow, 2010. Photographer Igor Mukhin



First female bus driver for the Chicago Public Transportation Authority, 1974



An open-air school in 1957, the Netherlands ⁣ At the beginning of the 20th century, a movement towards open-air schools began in Europe.



Classes were held in the forest so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight.

A camouflaged road in Finland during the Second world war. Trees are hung with a rope to keep allied watchmen the towers did not see the road. June 27, 1941



For a bet, former Marine Thomas Fitzpatrick's drunkenly stole a small plane from New Jersey and then perfect landed on a narrow Manhattan street in front of a bar where he was drinking. 1956



He made a bet with a fellow drinker that he could walk out of the bar go to New Jersey and be back in 15 minutes. He almost did the same two years later, after a bar patron refused believe he did the first.

Special effects in the 1960s in the film industry



The famous cliff house in San Francisco, shortly before it was destroyed by fire in 1907



Painters on the roof of the Woolworth Building in New York, 1926



Homeless children. East London, circa 1890



British soldiers of the Irish Guards watch one of them pass out in London, England, June 1966



Aerial view of over 400,000 people from the Woodstock festival, USA 1969



Paparazzi photographer Ron Galella would wear a football helmet next to actor Marlon Brando after Brando hit once punched him, broke his jaw and knocked out five of his teeth in 1973



A worker bottling ketchup at the original Heinz factory, circa 1897



Federal Reserve Bank, New York, 1959



To protect their feet from falling ingots, they must wear light, but very durable magnesium shoe covers that cost $500 each.”

The steamer Ss Princess May washed up on the rocks in Alaska, 1910



The ship is best known for being run aground in 1910. resulting in the ship completely sticking out of the water. This is one of the most famous shipwreck photos.

Monica Bellucci, 1991. Photographer Richard Ozhar