1877: Recruiting Sergeants in Westminster
By the mid-Victorian Age people were beginning to look at recruiting sergeants with fresh eyes
Art Print
A collection of 13 Posts
1892: Tower Bridge, London
At the end of the nineteenth century the gaunt arms of an engineering wonder stretched across the River Thames
1939: A Montana Rancher
Louis D. Hall explores the history behind one of Arthur Rothstein's finest photographs
1888: The Eiffel Tower: The Beauty and the Terror
The Parisian skyline was changing in a strange and stirring way in July 1888 when Gustave Eiffel led a tour of his majestic new tower
1917: Johnny Reynolds, 'Human Fly', Thrills Crowd
On Wednesday 5 September 1917, the daredevil climber Johnny Reynolds performed in Washington D.C.
1941: Mill District, Pittsburgh
We search for the source of this classic image by one of twentieth century's great documentary photographers
Herbert Ponting's Photographs of Antarctica in Colour
Colourised and remastered images from Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition
1950: Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory
"Aerodynamic research into hypersonic speeds—perhaps in the region of 15,000 miles an hour—will ultimately be carried out"
1945: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
On 23 February 1945 one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Here it is in colour.
1900: Mulberry Street, New York
A glimpse into Manhattan's teeming streets at the turn of the twentieth century
1963: TWA Flight Center
An iconic, innovative 1960s airport terminal hailed as a critically-acclaimed architectural masterpiece
