Back In The Good Old Days

Rat catchers with a pile of dead vermin in Sydney in 1900. Rats were fetching up to six pence a head during the plague outbreak.

Refineries and oil storage tanks of the Monsanto chemical plant burn in the waterfront area in Texas City, Texas, on April 16, 1947. The disaster, caused by the explosion of the nitrate-laden French ship Grandcamp, caused approximately 600 deaths.

Bed Piano: Today, when you’re sick in bed, you might pull out a laptop and blow through a few seasons of a TV show on Netflix; in 1935, you pulled out your bed piano and knocked out a few afternoon symphonies.

New York City (Men on Girder, Tee Time).

"Bandit's Roost, 1890, New York City." Photograph by Jacob Riis, featured in his book How the Other Half Lives (1890).

1994 - Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino  - Pulp Fiction

1936 - Mercury Steam Locomotive in New York Central Railroad

1905 - The Canadian Government Colonization Company Motor Car advertises certain prosperity in Western Canada

1932 - Jean Bugatti posing with his car (Bugatti Royale ‘Esders’ roadster)

1985 - Princess Diana and  John Travolta at the White House

1970 - Donald Sutherland and his son Kiefer in California

Around 1970 - Coalmine in Ukraine

Circa 1910 - Adolf Hitler's painting

1981 May 13 - Pope seconds after getting shot by Ali Aagca

1962 - London, East End - Marijuana dealer

1961 - Ballerinas in the cafeteria at the Bolshoi Ballet - Moscow Russia

1956 - Martin Luther King at the Chickenbone Beach, Atlantic City

1945 - A peanut vendor at work in lower Manhattan

1949 Charles "Lucky' Luciano - Sicily, Italy

1940 - Burying the Sounion Kouros for protection against airstrikes during WWII - National Archaeological Museum, Athens

1938 - English soccer team's greetings Adolf Hitler

1960 - Winter in Vorkut - Russia

1914 - Winter in New York

1919 - Williamsburg Bridge - New York city

1917 - Members of a chain gang building roads for the State of South Carolina camp Wadsworth Spartanburg