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 ...
June 6th, the 68th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by ...
Meet the characters from Dublin’s inner city during the 1980s. Photographer Gerry Smith captured these compelling images in the Irish capital before it found a revitalization in the past decade as development opportunities took hold and ...
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 ...
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 ...
There had been numerous proposals for a tunnel under the channel throughout the 19th Century including one by Napoleon, but the first serious attempt to build a tunnel came with an Act of Parliament in 1875 ...
These are Frank Hurley’s famous early colour photographs of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated ‘Endurance’ voyage, as part of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917. Hurley was the official photographer on the expedition. Early in 1915, their ...
The following series of pictures are taken from a book - When I Were A Lad: Snapshots From A Time That Health And Safety Forgot, by Andrew Davies. Showing images of children being taught to box by ...
The following pictures are from an abandoned mansion in Belgium that has stood empty for over 30 years. It’s not know why the house was originally abandoned, or why it has stood empty for so long. ...
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