Fascinating Mix of Vintage Photos (18 Photos)

Here is a fresh selection of historical photos—the perfect excuse for a fascinating and informative break. Step right in and enjoy the scroll!

1. Den Fujita, founder of McDonald's Japan, in 1986. He believed that eating at McDonald's would make Japanese people white.





2. Portrait of Kiowa Chief Kicking Bird, c. 1870.



A famed warrior who led his band to victory over the 6th U.S. Cavalry—and reportedly speared an American corporal himself—he was also a steadfast advocate for peace between Plains tribes and settlers.

3. Marilyn Monroe early in her career, 1947.





4. A Soviet family watches U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s New Year's address on television, Moscow, 1988.



5. Two boys riding homemade scooters built from wooden planks and roller-skate wheels on a London street. Photographed by Thurston Hopkins, August 7, 1954.



6. In 1949, bedridden French artist Henri Matisse used a long bamboo pole tipped with charcoal to sketch designs for the Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence directly onto his bedroom wall.



7. A German cavalryman inspects an early airplane at the Johannisthal Airfield near Berlin, August 12, 1910.



8. La Mano de Dios (The Hand of God). The infamous first goal awarded to Argentine star Diego Maradona during Argentina's quarter-final win over England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City.



9. "A Scottish soldier can't help stealing a glance as ladies show off their striking shoes and stylish stockings." London, England, 1926.



10. Prima ballerina Anna Pavlova tries her hand behind the camera during the filming of the silent movie "The Dumb Girl of Portici" (1916), in which she starred.



11. An orca hunts alongside a whaling vessel in Twofold Bay, Australia, c. 1900.



In a tradition stretching back generations to Indigenous whalers, orcas routinely cooperated with humans, driving baleen whales toward hunters and occasionally even towing their boats.

12. A man wearing traditional Kiribati armor on Tarawa Island (1920s or 1930s).



13. A farmer and his sons trudge through a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936.



14. Uyghur musicians in Kashgar, 1915.



15. National Portrait Gallery: Chang and Eng Bunker pictured with two of their 21 children (Chang fathered 10, Eng fathered 11).



16. A Titanic survivor signs an autograph, 1912.



17. Neo-romantic author Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." UK, 1885.



18. Restoration workers atop Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, 1952.