The Old Cincinnati Library Before Being Demolished, 1874-1955.

William S. Burroughs and director David Cronenberg behind the scenes of Cronenberg's very loose adaptation of Burroughs' novel The Naked Lunch, 1991

Roadside near Nablus, Palestine, then-part of the Ottoman Empire, ~1880s?

Women in Palestine grinding grain, ~1924?

Boatmen 'legging' through a canal tunnel, a common technique in longer passages with unmotorized vessels, 1961, UK

American Soldiers preparing to land in Nazi-Collaborationist French North Africa, in America's first major involvement in the European Theatre in World War 2 (November 1942)

One must imagine a French philosopher happy - Albert Camus dancing, 1950s?

Palestinians from Bethlehem journeying to Jerusalem, ~1919?

Photo of the Sphinx taken from a balloon before it was excavated. I can't find a date, but based on when it was excavated and the history of photography, some time between 1840 and 1867

Street in Nablus, British Mandate of Palestine, 1936

Austro-Hungarian troops in a trench on the Eastern Front, WW1, 1915

Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921

Snowy day in Cumberland, Appalachia, USA, ~1910

The noble pug-dog, Ireland, ~1900

Guests at a same-sex wedding in the early Soviet Union, 1921

Important skills for the modern gal, London, UK, 1901

Legendary artist Frida Kahlo being casually dismissed in contemporary American newspaper headline, 1933

Port in Jaffa, British Mandate of Palestine, ~1930

Ukrainians holding a picture of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko during the German occupation, Kyiv, WW1, 1918

Haifa Train Station after an attack by a Zionist terrorist org (Irgun?), British Mandate of Palestine, 1946

High-class Yomut women, Turkmenistan, ~1883

Man standing on a statue of Ramses II, Egypt, ~1856

General Union of Palestinian Women, 1990s?

Jazz legend Nat King Cole and itinerant songwriter George Alexander Aberle, USA, late 1940s

Ruth Lee, a Chinese-American woman, flying the flag of China while at the beach to avoid being mistaken for Japanese, Miami, USA, WW2, December 15, 1941

Afghan guerillas during the Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1980

Gustaf Håkansson, the 'Steel Grandpa', in a 1764 kilometer-long bicycle race at 66 years old, Sweden, 1951

Ahmet Ali Celikten, one of the first Black fighter pilots, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, WW1, possibly 1914 or 1915?

Austro-Hungarian troops crossing the Bug River, near modern-day Ukraine and Poland, WW1, 1915

1981 - Margeret Thatcher tells Afghanistan's Mujahideen: "the hearts of the free world are with you"

Dutch sailor 'displaying' the Belgian method (not an actual method) of disposing of sea mines, 1939/1940?

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire feeding her chickens, Chatsworth, UK, 1995

Early self-portrait, USA, 1839

Yuri Knorozov, Soviet linguist who was instrumental in decoding Mayan script, holding his co-author, Asya, 1980s?

Beach in Jaffa, Palestine, ~1900?

Joseph Douglass, director of the Department of Music at Howard University with his grandfather Frederick, 1894

Comandante William Morgan and Olga María Rodríguez Farinas, anti-Batista revolutionaries in support of Fidel Castro, Cuba, ~1958

HistoryRuins crossover! Excavation of the Ancient Roman Theatre of Marcellus, Rome, Italy, 1927?

Big Bertha, world's oldest cow at the time, raised $75,000 for cancer charities, 1992

Two women showing their legs in public (very modern!), Toronto, Canada, 1937