27 Interesting Vintage Photographs

1. A movie theater, 1921

2. The Dalai Lama at age two. 1937

3. 1924 Ringling Brothers and Barnun Bailey Circus of Freaks

4. A 15 kiloton nuclear weapon detonates about 10 km from the cannon it was fired from, Nevada Test Site, May 1953

5. The roaring 20s

6. An airgunner stands before his B24 bomber wearing what it took to survive at 25,000ft over Germany in 1943-45

7. US Government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself 1940s

8. Bandits Roost off Mulberry Street, New York City, 1887 The opening part of this scene from Gangs of New York was based off of this photo

9. Colorized NYC Lower East Side 1890s

10. Dissection room at a medical school in Bordeaux, France. Circa 1890

11. "Football team. Circa 1895-1910

12. American soldier inspects German loot stored in a church at Elligen, Germany, April 24, 1945

13. Emperor Meiji in full court dress, 1872

14. Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. More than likely the earliest born individual captured on film

15. Inside the old New York City Metropolitan Opera House, 1937

16. LAPD Officers went undercover and dressed up as women to catch a purse snatcher in 1960

17. Citizen Kane premiere, 1941

18. Marilyn Monroe tries to go shopping while fans and media watch, 1957

19. Ku Klux Klan at the carnival in Canon City, 1925

20. Suburbia move-in day 1950s

21. Surreal picture of a Zeppelin under construction, ca. 1935

22. A man standing atop a mountain of bison skulls that are about to be ground up into fertilizer 1870s

23. The red light district in Seoul, Korea, marked as off limits to American G.Is, 1945

24. USCGC Spencer hits the German submarine U-175, 1943

25. Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japan, October 12th, 1960