Photos from the past (40 photos)

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

Marmon car with a dancer on the radiator, Southern California, 1926





American World War I sailor and wife during the 1918 flu pandemic



Argentine policemen, 1935



Arm wrestling in Harlem, New York, 1940



Bikers in the thirties



Buster Keaton preparing a shot on the set of The Cameraman, 1928



Boeing Model 226, 1930



The Ringling Brothers and the Barnum & Bailey Circus took part in parade for the Free Milk for Babies Foundation. April 21, 1923 of the year



A team of metro builders led by foreman Tatyana Fedorova (left), who was then only 20 years old. 1936 (Later Fedorova became deputy head of Mosmetrostroy)



British dancer Rosemary Andre wearing a funny sunhat in London, 1939



British factory for the assembly of Sten submachine guns. 1942



Wanda Gag with a Cat (March 11, 1893 – June 27, 1946) was an American artist, writer, translator, and illustrator.



The "Great Flood" on the Ohio River in 1937



Interior view of the Sikorsky S-42 aircraft. Miami, Florida, 1934



Harlem, New York, 1949



Harmonist, ca. 1930



1938 Mercedes-Benz W125 racing car (423 km/h)



Greta Garbo



Children, 1936, Sweden



Jack Redmond, world champion golfer, demonstrating his skills atop the Whitehall Building, 1930



A Jew buying herring from a street vendor for a Shabbat meal, Mukachevo, Ukraine, c. 1935



Woman teaching her kangaroo to type, 1955



"Green Diamond", Illinois Central Railroad. 1936



Ken Murray and Paramount Girls in Malibu La Costa



Film actress Faye Webb with her pet goose in eye-catching glasses, 1925



Communists in London, May Day 1928



Cat and phone. England, 1932



Short-Mayo S.21 Maia G-ADHK flying boat with seaplane - mail plane Short S.20 Mercury G-ADHJ at the top



Model T Ford 1921



Young woman fighting for the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War



Sailor with cat and kitten, c. 1910



German anti-fascist fighters of the Rotfront (Roter Frontkämpferbund - Union of Red FightersFront), Berlin, circa 1927



Drinking should be fun!!



Raymond Loewy with a Pennsylvania Railroad engine. 1936



The Big Red Apple restaurant near St. Joseph, Missouri. 1926



Three-decker bus - Berlin, Germany - 1926



Tupolev TB-3



Fashion show, 1946