The “Maschinenmensch” (android) from the 1927 film Metropolis, played by Brigitte Helm, taking a break.

Babe Ruth posing with fans 1925. He was a popular figure in the African American community because of his willingness to treat them as he would white fans, along with rumors of him being biracial.

Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, during the first ‘Big Three’ Conference, November 1943.

Man trying to sell his 1928 Chrysler Imperial “75” Roadster, its list price had been $1555. After Black Tuesday’ aka Stock Market Crash of 1929

World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov playing an exhibition game at the XVIII Komsomol Congress, in 1978.

Martha Jane Cannary, better known as Calamity Jane, was a well-known American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and raconteur.She was a tobacco-spitting, beer-guzzling, foul-mouthed woman who preferred men’s clothing to dresses. In addition to many exploits she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.

Spring break in California, 1947

In 1907, a Shipload of 1,000 Immigrant Women From the Baltic Seeking Husbands Came to New YorkApparently rumors had been circulating in Europe that American men couldn’t find wives. With this in mind, just over 1,000 “maids” booked passage on a New York–bound ship that arrived on September 27, 1907.

The Washington Post wrote an article in 1907 on the arrival of 1,000+ women from European countries that came to America seeking husbands. This drew considerable attention from young American men, who waited at the pier for the arrival of their ship the Baltic, so as to catch a glimpse of these women and consider these potential suitors.

Daguerreotypes (a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor) shows the style of Victorian girls from the mid-19th century.

Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Germany on March 18, 1945

A black U.S. soldier reads a message left by the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War, the message reads: “U.S. Negro Armymen, you are committing the same ignominious crimes in South Vietnam that the KKK clique is perpetrating against your family at home.”, 1970.

U.S. helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese troops ca. 1965

Sign assures people that the business is Russian-owned. Mobs had been attacking shops that they suspected were owned by Germans. London, 1915

Mentally ill patients in England, 1910.“Hydrotherapy treatments consisted of placing patients in baths or steam cabinets for extended periods of time to treat various conditions or simply to calm the patients down. The patients were often not given a choice and were forced to undergo treatment if the patient wasn’t calm.”

Marilyn Monroe in 1951

Pope John Paul II immediately after being shot during a procession in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, Italy. Though critically wounded, the Pope survived four gunshot wounds to his abdomen. May 13, 1981.

St. Pope John Paul II meets with Mehmet Agca, the man who tried to assassinate him, in a Roman prison cell, 1983

Homecoming at the train station, New Hope, Pa, 1945.