As photographed by Life Magazine in 1955 Las Vegas was a booming desert town. Driven by gambling, the migration due to high unemployment, and the glitz and glamour of the desert oasis. At Las Vegas last ...
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These remarkable pictures show the American West as it was explored for the first time. Taken by photographer Timothy O’Sullivan who worked with a Federal Government team as they explored the American West. He had earlier covered the ...
In the summer of 1947 a group of American designers visited England, Czechoslovakia and Poland to evaluate the progress of post-war reconstruction. The photos are from their visit in August of 1947 to view the progress in ...
The following pictures were taken in an abandoned prison in the Midwest. The image include pictures of the reception areas, cells and chillingly the gas chamber that was used up until the facility was abandoned during ...
The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts ...
These images archived at the Library Of Congress show scenes in 1890-1900 from Israel, Lebanon and Syria, which was at the time controlled by the Ottoman Empire. It was a largely pastoral land that looks like it had ...
Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time ...
A shoebox full of images capturing life in India at least a century ago has been discovered in one of Scotland’s national collections. All 178 of the plate glass negatives were found inside a size-nine Peter ...
London 1976, Howard Wilson resigned, Concorde commenced commercial flights from London, the IRA launched a bombing campaign in the West-End, the Brotherhood of Man won the Eurovision Song Contest for Britain, and London saw a long, hot ...
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located 12 miles ...
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