Whether it’s the underground opium dens of New York, the unearthing the buried treasures of Egypt or an ominous Nazi ceremony these 14 compelling vintage photographs will change the way you view the past.
Each highlight unique flashpoints in popular culture, our ever-changing values and above all, provide a yardstick to measure the progress and evolution society has undergone.
American girl running the gauntlet of Italian men, 1951
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Passengers aboard a spacious Braniff International flight 1967
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Mahatma Gandhi is greeted by a crowd of UK female textile workers in 1931
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Jackie Kennedy kisses the casket of JFK in the Capitol rotunda. Nov. 24, 1963
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Howard Carter Looking through the Open Doors of Tutankhamun’s Second Shrine, January 1924
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Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960
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Berga Concentration Camp Survivors, 1945
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Two girls walking down the street in Cape Town in 1965
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American Patrons Smoking Opium in an Opium Den, Chinatown, New York, 1925
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Al Capones Soup Kitchen During Great Depression, Chicago Illinois in 1931
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A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944
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“Old ladies” of the Hell’s Angels waiting outside a club meeting, 1965
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Annual midnight swearing-in of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938
