One of the most fascinating dives into history is looking at old photographs that give an idea of the significant events, socially significant phenomena, famous personalities, triumphs and tragedies of humanity of the past.
Prostitutes on the streets of New York look for clients. Photograph by Norman Lono from the archives of the NY Daily News
A woman warms herself by a stove in an attic in Paris, ca. 1950. Photographer Tore Johnson
Pyotr Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich playing live chess on Palace Square, Leningrad, 1924
Kralingen Music Festival, Rotterdam, 1970. Photographer Herbert Behrens
Geologists with finds on the mountain slopes of the Pamirs, Tajik SSR, 1975. Photographer Vladimir Farajev
Prince Charles dancing the hopak, 1980s
The first drifting station North Pole – 1 and its chief Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin, 1938. Photographer Yakov Khalip
Parade on Red Square, 1937. Photographer Nikolai Kuleshov
Girl on a tractor, Hungary, 1956. Photographer Sandor Bauer
Archbishop Pitirim and cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, 1980s. Photographer Vladimir Lagrange
Bark "Terra Nova" in the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910. Photographer Herbert Ponting
Seminarians playing snowballs. Senigallia, early 1960s. Photographer Mario Giacomelli
Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, Moscow, 1980
Coca-Cola truck in 1910 year
Houston, we have a problem. Test pilot George Aird ejected from an English Electric Lightning F1 at low altitude in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, on September 13, 1962.
Ernest Hemingway at a typewriter, 1939. Photographer Lloyd Arnold
Watch in the mountains. Border guards in Pamir, 1937. Photographer Arkady Shaikhet
In the morning in the garden, USSR, 1960s. Photographer unknown
Winter traffic in Idaho, 1952