Here is a selection of rare historical photos:
- 650 cavalry soldiers and officers pay tribute to the 8 million horses, donkeys and mules that died in the First World War.
- Hannah Steely Gorby, born in 1746, is the oldest person ever captured in a photograph. The picture was taken in 1840.
- Ernest Hemingway boxing in Africa.
- Selfies were invented a long time ago: a 1920 photo from the New York History Museum.
- Second Lieutenant Winston Churchill, 4th Her Royal Majesty’s Hussars Regiment, 1895.
- Marilyn Monroe and James Dean smoking on a rooftop in New York.
- Albert Kahn took this colour shot of the original Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris in 1914, a year before it burned down.
- Jimi Hendrix on stage at Woodstock, 1969.
- An American Marine feeds a kitten, 1943.
- Louis Armstrong playing for his wife at Giza, 1961.
- window washer with camera, Empire State Building, 1936.
- Mohammed Ali with his winnings, 1974.
- Audrey Hepburn in a photograph by Bill Avery, 1954.
- Michael Jackson as Charlie Chaplin, 1970s.
- Extension device advertised as a way to increase one’s height by 2-6 inches, 1931.
- New American ‘automatic hip massager,’ ca. 1928 г.
- Henry Behrens, the world’s shortest man, dancing with a cat at the entrance to his house, 1956.
- Frank Sinatra lights a cigarette for John F. Kennedy, 1961.
- young John Lennon and his future first wife Cynthia Powell in 1958 – before the Beatles were formed!
- Bill Gates on his favourite bicycle, 1970s.
- Construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961.
- Elvis in the army, 1958.
- Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman defends women’s right to wear a one-piece swimming costume, 1907. She was arrested for indecent behaviour.
- Cafeteria for Disneyland employees, 1961.
- A girl with a doll in the ruins of her bombed-out house, London, 1940.
- Walter Yeo is the first man to undergo plastic surgery with skin grafts, 1917.
- Measurement of swimming costumes in the 1920s. A woman was fined if her swimming costume was too short
