Spiral

Building spiral turbines c. 1930

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Children and staff sunbathing by the shore of Neman River, Grodno, 1920-30s

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Berlin

1935 - Buying a balloon, Berlin

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Nautch Dancers

Nautch Dance in Calcutta, ca. 1900, In North India is one of several styles of popular dance, performed by girls known as Nautch girls. The word Nautch is an anglicized version of नाच (nāc), a word found in Hindi and Urdu (where it is spelled ناچ), and several other languages of North India, derived from the Sanskrit, Nritya, via the Prakrit, Nachcha. A simple and literal translation of Nautch is "dance" or "dancing". Read more from Wikipedia

Nautch Dancers, bottom photo from Meriyatrra

Hospital Ambulance

Orange County Hospital Ambulance at Towner & Hartley, Santa Ana - Flickr

Photo courtesy Orange County Archives |
Acc#2008-3. From the Hiram Clay Kellogg Collection

Old Style Newsstand

Old Style Newsstand, Madison Square Park, Manhattan March 3, 1934, Alajos Schuszler

New York City Parks Photo Archive

Paris

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

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Elderly woman reading the newspaper, 1930-1940, commons.wikimedia


Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

Army Air Forces

"Jackie Wilson (left) and Ray Robinson have fought two bitterly contested ring encounters. Now it's Sgt. Wilson and Pvt. Robinson in the same Aviation Squadron at Mitchel Field, New York, and they stand shoulder to shoulder--ready for a fight to the death on the Axis." 1943. 208-PU-214B-5.

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US Navy

"The crew of the U.S. Navy submarine chaser [PC 1264] salutes the United States flag as the 173-foot long escort vessel is commissioned in a U.S. East Coast port. As soon as they qualify through experience and training, eight members of the crew of 53 Negro sailors will replace the present chief petty officers." May 1, 1944. 208-N-26553.

National Archives 

Troopships Depart Sydney

This photo is from a collection depicting the wartime departure of the 6th Division for the Middle East,
9-10 January 1940.

Flickr | State Library New South Wales

Photographs of New York

 Photographs of New York 1935-1938 by photographer Berenice Abbott.

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Street Scene: Aftermath

Photograph taken in the aftermath of the Great Timber Yard Fire in Hartlepool, 1922. Street scene in which locals can be observed surveying the damage. Lamp posts appear to have bent over due to the heat caused by the blaze which, in places, is still smoldering.

by Hartlepool Cultural Services | The Commons on Flickr

Stylish 1930s woman on a fairground ride. by Mary

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Ingenues Serenading Cows 1930

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Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre

Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, Daguerreotype. The purportedly first picture of a living person. The image shows a busy street, but due to exposure time of more than ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exceptions are the two people at the bottom left, one who stood still getting his boots polished by the other long enough to show. Look closely and you will also see another man sitting on a bench to the right reading a newspaper. Also in the upper left hand side you can also see another man standing under the awning of the 3rd building from the left. What looks to be a woman standing under the street lantern at 10 o'clock from the man getting his shoes shined and another one in the big white building,1st row 3rd window down. Notice the child in the top floor window of the white building in front. Note that the image is a mirror image.  by Louis Daguerre 1787–1851 , between 24 April 1838 and 4 May 1838 

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Y12 Calutron Operators

 Calutron operators at their panels, in the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge, TN during World War II. The calutrons were used to refine uranium ore into fissile material. During the Manhattan Project effort to construct an atomic explosive, workers toiled in secrecy, with no idea to what end their labors were directed. Gladys Owens, the woman seated in the foreground, did not realize what she had been doing until seeing this photo in a public tour of the facility fifty years later. Circa 1943 to 45

Wikimedia Commons | Ed Westcott / American Museum of Science and Energy,

Bathers, Japan

Japanese students await a turn in the water for a swimming lesson in this 1927 autochrome.

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Japan Archery

Archery, Japan, ca.1860-1900

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Swinging Grannies

1966 - Swinging Grannies, Slovakia, Curated by Chris Wild 

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