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1. First selfie, ca. 1920:
2. Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956:
3. Elvis in the Army, 1958
4. A teary-eyed Neil Armstrong photographed by Buzz Aldrin shortly after walking on the moon, 1969
5. Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937:
6. Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938:
7. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb 1922. 3,245 years untouched:
8. Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923
9. Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916
10. Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937
11. Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
12. Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency
13. Studying the effects of weightlessness on a living mammal at 25,000′, 1958:
14. Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
15. 106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990
16. The original Ronald McDonald, 1963
17. Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961
18. Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII
19. Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
20. Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940
21. Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
22. Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
23. Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940
24. Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917
25. Suntan vending machine, 1949
26. Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920′s
27. Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960
28. Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964
29. Lifeguard on the coast, 1920′s
30. Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890
31. Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953
32. Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
33. Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
34. Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
35. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
36. Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
37. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
38. A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961
39. Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929
40. Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893
41. A beautiful suicide – 23 year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947:
42. First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967:
43. Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885:
44. A little girl holds a penguin’s flipper as they walk together around the London Zoo, 1937:
45. The last photo ever taken of the RMS Titanic before it sunk in April 1912:
46. Marilyn Monroe with Ella Fitzgerald at the the Mocambo, a popular Hollywood night club at the time that would not book Ella because of segregation. Marilyn told the manager that she would reserve a front row table every night Ella performed there. Ella performed a week later, 1955:
47. Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII:
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