Posting rare historical photos mostly in black and white

Dorothy Counts, 15, is taunted and harassed by white students as she makes her way from Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Credit: Photo by Douglas Martin.

This is what Albert Einstein's desk looked like the day he died.

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The first 3-D movie opened in Los Angeles in November 1953.

Credit: Railroad Jack on flickr

The photographic artwork by Philippe Halsman called “Dali Atomicus” showing three cats water, an easel, a chair, and Salvador Dali all frozen in mid-air, 1948.

Credit: Library of Congress // Public Domain

The 1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Brussels, Belgium. This image features many of the greatest scientists in modern history: Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, and Auguste Piccard among others.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott on February 22, 1956. She was 1 of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Known as the final photograph taken of Vladimir Lenin. He is seen with his sister Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova and his doctor A. M. Kozhevnikov in Gorki in May 1923.

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Claimed to be the oldest surviving photograph to exist. It was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The scene depicts a view from a window in Nicéphore Niépce’s estate known as Le Gras in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, Bourgogne, France in 1826 or 1827. Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

The Pillow Fight of The Beatles, 1964.

Credit: Harry Benson

The image titled Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California was shot by renowned black and white photographer Dorothea Lange in 1936.

Happiness of a child that just got new shoes as a gift. The picture was taken sometime during the Second World War.

Credit: Unknown.

Newspaper boy sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of Titanic’s sinking the night before. (April 16, 1912)

Credit: Hulton - Deutsch Collection

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One of the earliest designs for roller skates.

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Similar to AI hype nowadays, 19th century was full of new inventions, a "mass shaving machine" designed to shave a bunch of men all at once.

Credit: Ken Howard / Getty Images

This is the ancestor of the video call apps, well at least it tries to be. It was developed by Toshiba.
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An early design for an electric hair dryer.
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Chief John Smith, reputed to be 138 years old when he died, 1784-1922. Smith was a Chippewa Indian who lived in the Cass Lake, Minnesota area and is reputed to have died at the age of 138. He was known as “The Old Indian” to the white people.

A crowd of West Berliners gathers at the newly erected Berlin Wall while an East German soldier patrols on the other side in August 1961

Jews and Muslims of Jerusalem. c. 1900.

Frida Kahlo in the Casa Azul, 1930.

Margaret Bourke-White’s famous photograph – Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel | 1946

A double-exposed photograph showing Tesla in his Colorado Springs laboratory, ca. 1899. Tesla forced his “magnifying transmitter” to produce inefficient arcs by turning the machine rapidly on and off during the photoshoot for The Century Magazine

Boulevard Du Temple, Paris, France, 1839 © Louis Daguerre
This picture contains two barely discernible figures (thought to be a shoe-shiner and his customer), believed to be the first people ever photographed.

The Stockholm Telephone Tower with approximately 5,500 telephone lines, 1890

An American soldier wears a hand lettered "War Is Hell" slogan on his helmet, Vietnam, 1965

The iconic photograph known as “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” captures a moment frozen in time, taken on September 20, 1932.

On February 8th, 1943, Nazis Hung 17-Year-Old Lepa Radić For Being A Yugoslavian Partisan During World War II. When They Asked Her The Names Of Her Companions, She Replied: “You Will Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me."

Picture taken in 1962 at the Faculty of Medicine in Kabul of two Afghan medicine students listening to their professor (at right) as they examine a plaster cast showing a part of a human body.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Eddie Adams was on the streets of Saigon on the 1st February 1968 photographing the devastation of the war.

Soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, 1945.