Old pictures from history

Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination. Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived, 1937




Wait For Me Daddy, October 1, 1940 A line of soldiers march




Horten Ho 229 flying over Gttingen, Germany. It was the first pure flying wing powered by a jet engine. 1945




Star wars set at lunchtime




A vending machine that sold already lit cigarettes for a penny. England, 1931.




German soldiers taking a break from fighting as they play with a cute kitten. 1943.




The blood-stained gloves that Lincoln was wearing when he was assassinated at Ford's Theater.





Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1969.




14 inch shells on the deck of the USS New Mexico in 1944.




Rip, a rescue dog who found one hundred victims of air raids in London between 1940 and 1941. He received the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945.




Atlanta, Georgia in 1864.




The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior" explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944.




George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966.




The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935.




OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984. Nichole Brown can be seen on the left.




Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934.




Vladimir Putin and his childhood friends in 1969.




The earliest known aerial photograph, taken from a balloon over Paris in 1858.




Bin Laden with his family in the 1970s




Hitler visiting the Bismarck.




Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.




Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890.




Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939.




Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's.




Albert Einstein brings sexy back in 1932.




The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar. Circa 1930.




Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961.




The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas.




Control room of a submarine in 1918




James Dean and Marilyn Monroe