15 Archival Photos, Many of Which Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes (16 photos)
Digitizing photographs is a great thing. After all, it's a wonderful opportunity to preserve fragile and ephemeral paper photos, preventing them from crumbling to dust and making the characters and events captured on them practically eternal. 
And for us, it's a wonderful opportunity to touch history, to understand and feel the feelings of people and moments of days, years, and centuries long gone, which will never return.
1. A pair of young thieving friends were put in stocks as punishment. London, 1872 
2. Margaret kisses her groom on the cheek, while Mary looks on, seemingly embarrassed, from the side. California, 1940s 
Margaret and Mary Gibb were conjoined twin sisters born on May 20, 1912, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. They were joined at the pelvis. However, despite applying for a marriage license, the marriage was never registered.
3. Australian explorer and meteorologist Cecil Madigan encountered extreme cold in Antarctica during the Australian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914. 
During a snowstorm, as he returned to his main base at Cape Denison, an ice mask formed around his face.
4. Russell Crowe at an acting portfolio photoshoot, 1981 
The future star of "Gladiator" and "A Beautiful Mind" imitates Elvis Presley in this photo.
5. Construction of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, 1981 
The glass structure in the Cour Napoleon in Paris serves as the main entrance to the Louvre and is one of the city's symbols.
6. Aboriginal child slave, Western Australia, circa 1900 
7. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova fooling around, 1915 
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova is ill. She is seen in bed on the left in the photograph.
8. Howard Carter explores Tutankhamun's tomb, circa 1922 
9. Results of King George V's 10-day royal hunt in Nepal 
During that hunt in 1911, a huge number of animals were killed – tigers, rhinoceroses, bears, leopards, deer, wild boar, porcupines – and birds.
George V meticulously documented his hunts in his diary. It bore little resemblance to hunting as we know it. It was a senseless slaughter of animals and birds, driven straight toward him while other servants brought him loaded guns so he could fire without stopping. In his diary, he recorded a personal best of over 2,000 animals killed in a single day. His estate was cluttered with approximately 100,000 trophies.
10. Ruins of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, May 1, 1932, Moscow 
11. USSR Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko with geishas during his first visit to Japan at the government's invitation, 1962 
12. A soldier looks at Adrianople (now Edirne), during the 1877–1878 war years 
13. Legendary makeup artist Jack Pierce working with Boris Karloff on his makeup for the 1931 film adaptation of Frankenstein 
14. Harry Houdini entertaining children at a hospital in 1925 year 
15. An officer treats a cat and a hedgehog to milk during a break between battles, 1916 
