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9-year old Eunice Winstead Johns and her husband, 22-year-old Charlie Johns, Sneedville, Tennessee, United States, 1937 [1200x1282]
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Polish women led to execution site in a forest near Palmiry village close to Warsaw. Woman in the foreground was identified after the war by her checked coat as Janina Skalska, age 38, miller's wife from Piaseczno. Palmiry, Poland, 1940. [900x625]
"Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" Missouri family of five broken down on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange. February 1937 [4116 × 4336]
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing 1960 [1080×710]
Kareem Abdul Jabbar photographed in New York City by Richard Avedon 1963 [1068x1454]
Erich “Bubi” Hartmann, the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare, he was credited with shooting down a total of 352 allied aircraft, 1943. [1024 x 1603]
Two children wearing masks of Hitler and Charlie Chaplin, London, c. 1940. [672 x 918]
Lacemakers in Brittany, France, 1920 [960x1200]
An 18 year old Alan Rickman, 1964.(640x613)
JFK & Bill Clinton Greeting At The White House, In 1963 (700 x 549)
Power house mechanic working on steam pump. 1920. Photo by Lewis Hine [2155 x 3000]
Market Square in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) 1890s [3439 × 2511]
A civilian Bengali truck carries paratroopers of the Indian Army's 2nd Parachute Battalion into Dhaka, December 16th, 1971. The Paras can be seen waving their unit flag as the Pakistan Army had surrendered and the war was over (more info in comments) [2048 x 1364]
Street advertisers, Japan 1905. [960x1004]
Photographer Kohki Yamaguchi works with every kind of light to create dreamy scenes. Pick up some of his quick Lightroom tips to see how you can too.
Carlton’s Alex Jesaulenko Marks Over Collingwood’s Graeme Jenkin, September 26th 1970 [389 x 500]
A photo of the aftermath of the bombing of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108. All 23 people on board were killed. The bombing was the first attack on civil aviation in North America, Quebec, 1949 [1200 x 954].
The United States Board of Tea Experts assembled for the first time since 1942 to set up minimum standards for the eight to ten different types of tea that will be coming into the country for the following year, Feb. 17, 1947 [1280x1039]
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Shell-shocked U.S. soldier awaiting transportation away from the front line, Vietnam, Don McCullin, 1968 [834x1280]
Italian PM Mussolini reads the contents of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian government and the Vatican. The treaty recognised Vatican City as an independent state under the sovereignty of the Holy See (Rome, Italy 1929) [2867x1818]
Prosperous black community, Greenwood Avenue, in Tulsa was utterly destroyed in a matter of hours by a violent white mob in 1921. It was also, in a sense, the first aerial bombing conducted on American soil (firebombs thrown from biplanes). Over 300 people were murdered. [1050x700]
Happy Jewish refugees aboard SS St. Louis cheer as their liner is allowed to berth at Antwerp, Belgium. Denied entry in Cuba, United States and Canada, many of the passengers would perish during the Holocaust. June 1939. [1200 x 875]
A soup kitchen in Montreal at the height of the Great Depression, c. 1931. [1200 x 875]
Primo Carnera moves to a neutral corner as the referee begins to count over Ernie Schaaf in the 5th round at Madison Square Garden. Schaaf dropped after a terrific left to the face and his handlers were unable to revive him. He would die 4 days later (New York, NY 1933) [2867x2254]
Diana, Princess of Wales, is greeted by youngsters during the 1983 Royal Tour of Canada. Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 1983. [1280 x 1024]