Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s (lemmy.world)
American professor standing beside two massive guards of the personal retinue of the Maharaja of Kashmir, 1903 (lemmy.world)
King Frederick IX of Denmark, a former naval officer, showing off his tattoos, 1951 (media.kbin.social)
Two explorers looking at their ship, 'Terra Nova', during an Antarctic expedition, 1911 (lemmy.world)
Stockholm on 'H-Day', when Sweden swapped from driving on the left-side of the road to the right, 1967 (lemmy.world)
French tanker wearing a British 'splatter mask' to protect against shrapnel/'spalling' in the tank, WW1, 1918 (lemmy.world)
Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949 (lemmy.world)