A Hodgepodge of Interesting Retro Photos (17 photos) (photo)

Do you think you know history and its secrets? Did you know how serious and precocious the peddlers looked, trying to earn their honest pennies at the Moscow market? Or what J.Lo was like before fortune smiled on her? These photographs are a time machine. A selection of shots, from dusty pavements to snow-capped peaks, will prove that greatness always begins with one humble, unnoticed shot.

1. Man in a rooster costume, 1910





2. The Basel freight transport company Settelen had to harness two horses to its truck because automobiles were banned in the canton of Graubünden (eastern Switzerland) from 1900 to 1925.



3. George V and Nicholas II with their children and heirs The accession of Edward and Alexei to the throne





4. Miner's Bathhouse, Chester-le-Street, Durham, 1937



5. Workers and logistics services excavate an underground transport tunnel, circa 1895 years



6. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first confirmed ascent of Everest on May 29, 1953



7. Hoover Dam under construction, February 1934



8. Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman Behind the Scenes of "The Addams Family" in 1991



9. Jennifer Lopez in the 1990s, before she gained worldwide fame



10. The sculpture "Pieta" ("Lamentation of Christ") was completed by Michelangelo when he was only about 24 years old years



The sculpture, carved from a single block of Carrara marble between 1498 and 1499, depicts the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus after the crucifixion.

11. A man transporting tires sadly looks at his car's flat tire, 1966



12. Poet Robert Rozhdestvensky and composers Mark Fradkin and Oskar Feltsman in conversation, 1975



13. Braun FS80 TV (1964)



14. Dancers backstage at a New York burlesque show, 1936



15. Peddlers, 1909



16. Julie Newmar - American actress, dancer, Singer, businesswoman, and writer as Catwoman



17. Minusinsk Tatar (Khakass) shaman (Khakass - tadar) in ceremonial attire, circa 1920