#black and white pics

Pioneer days…coming west.

Tupac after being shot 5 times

Hiram Bingham, the real Indiana Jones, and American explorer who ‘discovered’ Machu Picchu over 100 years ago.

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How to talk on the telephone.

Vintage Gay Rights Protest.

A captured SturmTiger

Pilgrim State Mental Hospital, Brentwood, NY, 1938

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Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis on the set of Ghostbusters

Elvis and Priscilla Presley on their wedding day, ‘67.

Kurt Cobain talking on an old school cell phone.

The Lincoln Memorial in 1917 vs present day.

Girl at a Rolling Stones concert in 1969.

Conflict on Manchurian Eastern Railway, 1929. The Soviet soldiers with captured banners from Zhang Xueliangs troops

Women of steel working during wartime, November 27, 1942. soon to be a statue in Sheffield (2)

An ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s)

Women’s basketball 1917.

Lucille takes control of the scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong plays, Rome in 1949 by Slim Aarons.

Anarchist Militia Women, Spanish Civil War ca. 1936-1939.

Staircase la rue Vilin Paris, Willy Ronis