Photos from the past (40 photos)

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





President John F. Kennedy watches the launch of the Polaris rocket from the surfaced submarine "Andrew Jackson" coast of Florida. November 16, 1963



Heavy British bomber Stirling at the start in Mildenhall, Suffolk, 1942



A young punk couple walking around New York wearing Misfits T-shirts, 1981. Photo by Robert Herman



This is not a photograph of the sun setting below the horizon. Looked like this the explosion of the American hydrogen bomb on the Eniwetok atoll. July 8, 1956



Cafe 13 chairs in Riga, 1970



Dee and Lisa on Mott Street, New York 1976 Photographer Susan Meiselas



Soviet tank KV-1 near the wrecked German tank Pz.Kpfw. IV on the battlefield. Kursk Bulge, July-August 1943



Gypsies. Romania, 1992. Photographer Bruno Barbie



Residents of the village of Vypolzovo, Sursky District, and a collective-farm tarantass. 1930-1940s



Residents of the village of Semyonovskoye are hard at work on the outskirts of Moscow. USSR, 1965. Photographer Dean Conger



American film actor Rudolph Valentino with the winners of the beauty pageant. San Francisco, 1923



Mylène Demongeot during the filming of The Giant of Marathon, 1959



Voronezh plant "Electrosignal". TV assembly line, 1959. Photo by A. Gostev



French border guard helps refugees from the Spanish side cross the border during the Spanish Civil War. 1938



A daring escape from the Animal Defense League. Massachusetts, Boston, 1940



Colorful Saigon traffic, Vietnam, photographer Wilbur E. Garrett, 1961



Actor Paul Newman with his beloved cat, ~ 1950s



Girlfriends 1982. Photo by Vladimir Rolov



Fighting during the Romanian revolution in the center of Bucharest, December 24, 1989



Special Forces MACV SOG Ed Wolcoff with a shortened RPD. Vietnam. 1963



American special forces in Vietnam often used rapid-fire Soviet machine gun RPD-44. RPD was lighter than the American M60 machine gun and more convenient. Light weight allowed the fighter to take a big amount of ammunition, and use captured.

Michael Jackson and the Cossacks, 90s



Donald Trump with 13-year-old daughter Ivanka in 1990. Yann Gamblin/Paris Match



Nikola Tesla's foot in shoes on an x-ray takenm by himself on a device of his own design, 1896



Inspection of the jewels of the imperial family employees of foreign embassies and their wives in the premises of the Gokhran in Nastasinsky pereulok, for the purpose of further recommendation on the acquisition their governments of their countries. 1923



Cabaret. Dancers in New York's Latin Quarter, photographed by Peter Basch, 1949



May Day demonstration in Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic, 1953



Alien. Photo by Vladimir Rolov



Black Monday 1987



A radiologist checks a miner's stomach for swallowed diamonds, Kimberley, South Africa, 1954



The resting changing of the guard moves forward at the signal "Combat alert" to the place of violation. 1973



On the back of the unemployed man is a poster: "I have 3 professions, I I speak 3 languages, I fought for 3 years, I have 3 children, I no longer work 3 months and all I need is one job."



Nikita Khrushchev on a visit to the USA, September, 1959



A woman in a national costume with a spinning wheel. Norway. 1907 (photo colorized)



Monica Bellucci