Woman sticking anti burglar glass onto back wall of house Liverpool 8 1971

Old World Trade Center during the Christmas Season, 1995.

Życie towarzyskie w jednej z wiejskich świetlic kulturalno-oświatowych Klub Rolnika, w 1968 r.

Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Indians. 1890.

London from St Paul's Cathedral as it looked in August 1942 by the late Wolf Suschitzky.

A woman undergoing bloodletting. It remained popular in folk medicine long after falling out of favour among doctors. Mangskog, Sweden in 1922.

Bloodletting was long considered to be a panacea. According to the humoral theory, it was sometimes necessary to remove some blood in order to bring balance among the four fluids of the body.

Bloodletting fell out of favour during the second half of the 19th century and is now only used in

Traditional Ama Diver, 1954 by Fosco Maraini

Mass landing of Soviet paratroopers during the major military exercise in Kiev, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the USSR, in 1935. This mass launch of paratroopers impressed foreign observers and accelerated interest in paratrooper forces.

The last minutes of the USS Yorktown Carrier which was sunk on 7th June 1942.

This is Mr Larkin, suspended on a rope cleaning the clock face of Big Ben in March 1930.

London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick

Yuri Gagarin returns from early USSR test flight 1955

First class sleeping car on a Train, 1929.