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.

Mom uses a trash can to contain her baby while she crochets in the park, 1969

Panavision Camera: $75,000

Piece of white cloth and clothespin: $1.25

The memories it created for us as children? Priceless.

Mug shots from the U.K., mostly from the 1920s & 1930s. Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums [UHQ]

Holland, March 1979: In a collaboration with Sony, Joop Sinjou of Philips introduces the compact disc to the world.

Iranian women protesting the new mandatory hijab law in 1979

'Irish Traveller Family', Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954.