Historic pictures

Iosef Stalin heavy tank in Breslau, Germany. Typical Soviet propaganda photo.

The Cold war began in June 1948 with the Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union.

World War 2 pictures capture everything from presidents and prime ministers to ordinary soldiers. As cameras became smaller and more portable, World War 2 ...

Construction Workers Lunchtime 1931 St Johns Bridge N. Portland Oregon historic bw photo by Ray Atkeson

The first buses to come into service did so slightly earlier, though – back in London. As soon as the war began, London’s buses were pressed...

This was the view as the iconic tower slowly climbed above Paris and straight into history.

The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. The Breakers, a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, belonging to the wealthy Vanderbilt family of railroad industry tycoons. A Tour Through the Gilded Age New York The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As…

London at the end of Victorian era was the most important city in the world. Take a tour of this city and era with these beautiful pictures of a bygone era.