history
Big Bear Solar Observatory, California
Buzludzha, Bulgaria
The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party (also known as the Buzludzha Monument) was built on Buzludzha Peak in central Bulgaria by the Bulgarian government between 1971 and 1981. It commemorated the events of 1891, […]
Child labour, Pennsylvania, 1910
Grimy young boys pause in their work at the Pennsylvania Coal Company’s mine in South Pittston, PA, USA. Many of these boys are no more than 10 years old, and […]
Le Baiser de l’hôtel de ville, Paris, 1950
French photographer Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) was walking in Paris when he saw aspiring actors Françoise Delbart (age 20) and Jacques Carteaud (age 23) kissing. He proposed to the charming young […]
Lunch atop a Skyscraper, New York, 1932
Published in the New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 2 1932. Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a photograph taken atop the steelwork of 30 Rockefeller […]
Mega Chad
About 7,000 years ago, a vast lake spread hundreds of square kilometers across north-central Africa. Known to scientists as Lake Mega Chad, it covered more than 400,000 square kilometers at […]