Soldier reads a message from a dog after crossing a canal, WW1, 1914-1918
Camels at a watering station, Palestinian Campaign, WW1, 1916 (lemmy.world)
Color photo of a man and woman in Dagestan, 1904 (lemmy.world)
'Radio hat' for listening on the go, USA, 1949? (lemmy.world)
A divorced couple divides their Beanie Baby collection in court, 1999 (lemmy.world)
Full caption: Nov 5, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Attorney Frank Totti looks over papers while his client Frances Mountain sorts out Beanie Babies with her ex-husband Harold Mountain in Judge Gerald Hardcastle’s Family Courtroom in Las Vegas November 5. The couple, who were divorced four months ago, were ordered to divide up...
Secret service agents moments after the 1981 assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest at the side entrance of the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue by John Hinckley Jr. Reagan was walking to his limousine after a speech to AFL-CIO leaders when Hinckley, 25, who was standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots, hitting Reagan...
British soldiers carrying an inflatable decoy tank, post-WW2 (lemmy.world)
Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915 (lemmy.world)
Two Imperial German sound locators for detecting airplanes, WW1, 1917 (lemmy.world)
Early color photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii and two Cossacks posing for a picture, 1916 (lemmy.world)
Stand off between American and Soviet tanks in Berlin, 1961. (lemmy.world)
Quick wikipedia summary: Soon after the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, a stand-off occurred between US and Soviet tanks on either side of Checkpoint Charlie....
American soldier inspecting a Nazi decoy tank, WW2, France, 1944 (lemmy.world)
You've heard of cars made to fly - prepare for an airplane made to drive! Light aircraft converted into a car, 1948 (lemmy.world)
1969 demonstrative photos of a NASA study on cats to help develop techniques for astronauts to re-orient in zero-G (lemmy.world)
Belgian refugees leaving Brussels with a dog pulling a cart, WW1, 1914 (lemmy.world)
US Navy Blimp after being downed during a nuclear test, 1957 (lemmy.world)
Soldiers at Fort Lee put on an all-male production of Clare Booth's all-female play "The Women" (i.imgur.com)
From LIFE Magazine, December 21, 1942
The first (coherent) underwater photo ever taken. 1899. (lemmy.world)
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Ancient hillside etching of a cat. Nazca-Pampa region, Peru. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Enormous cat etched into a hillside in the desert in Peru. Home to the geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and a human, the newly revealed form of the feline is about 37-meter-long, and expected to be dating back more than 2,000 years....
Mockups created in 1944 by the US government about how Hitler may have looked in disguise. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Towards the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence officials were afraid that the German dictator would flee Germany by assuming a disguise. By 1944 the world identified the man largely by his trademark toothbrush mustache and oily side-slicked hair, so they ordered his portrait to be cloned....