Photographs from the archives have a special value to them. They often allow us to peer directly into the past and gain some sense of how things really were in a time long before we were born. Some of them are so startling or fascinating that you can’t help but think to yourself "Is this actually real?"

Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield, 1957.

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A boy distributes newspapers bearing a headline about the sinking of the Titanic, 1912. (Colorization by Dana Keller).

Loading the first ever five-megabyte hard drive onto a PanAm plane, 1965

The Hindenburg disaster, 1937. (Colorization applied subsequently).

The first telephoto lens in the world, 1900.

Young women carrying ice, 1918. (Colorization by Dana Keller).

An opium den in Singapore, 1941.

An accident in Washington, 1921. (Colorization applied subsequently).

flight simulator for pilots, 1942

Newspaper sellers on a cigarette break, 1910. (Colorization applied subsequently).

Workers of the Fiat company take part in a race on the roof of the first factory in Turin, Italy, 1923.

A beggar runs after George V, 1920.

A gas station in Washington, DC, 1924. (Colorization added subsequently)

Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923. (Colorization added subsequently).

A mobile swimming pool in New York, 1960.

Steven Spielberg during the shooting of Indiana Jones , 1980.

No pictures of our forefathers shackled in the hold of death-trap ships making the journey across the Atlantic with the newly-acquired status of slaves




Dope pictures though, I gotta admit. Thumbs up, OP.

Willard Scott as the original Ronald McDonald, 1963.

A polar explorer proffers a can of condensed milk to a polar bear, USSR, 1980s.

Zanzibar, 1947. An exhausted nanny poses with her young charge, named Farrokh Bulsara. A quarter of a century later, he would adopt the pseudonym of Freddie Mercury.

A 7,600-ton multi-story housing block is physically moved in order to extend an avenue in the Romanian city of Alba Julia, 1987.

Claude Monet with his paintings, 1923. (Colorization by Dana Keller).

The Beatles perform for 18 people in a modest club in the town of Aldershot, December 1961. A year and a half later they would be superstars.

Marilyn Monroe poses for soldiers, 1954. (Colorization by Dana Keller)

New explorer

RoyalBlak007:
A polar explorer proffers a can of condensed milk to a polar bear, USSR, 1980s.

That is friggin dangerous man , one of the cubs is wrapped around the man's leg sef

The seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen, 1922. It had remained untouched for 3,245 years.

Soldiers during the Second World War, Easter 1944. (Colorization applied subsequently).

A canteen for Disney employees, 1961.

RoyalBlak007:
Loading the first ever five-megabyte hard drive onto a PanAm plane, 1965

did You Say 5mb... Hahahahahaha... Jeez! The World Has Changed for Sure

RoyalBlak007:
Workers of the Fiat company take part in a race on the roof of the first factory in Turin, Italy, 1923.

wow! On The Roof? More Like A Race Lane

RoyalBlak007:
A polar explorer proffers a can of condensed milk to a polar bear, USSR, 1980s.

how Come He Isnt Attacked