Photo History Talking

Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

High-wire artist performs above the ruins of Heumarkt in Cologne, Germany in 1946.

Central Park, NYC, 1933

Photo Legend History Steven Spielberg lying in the mouth of "Bruce the shark" on the set of Jaws, 1975

A 17 year-old Pele in Stockholm before the 1958 World Cup

Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo the Lion (the mascot for the Hollywood film studio MGM), 1957

Led Zeppelin in Melbourne, Australia, 1972

Three archers, Japan, ca.1860-1900.

Joseph and Magda Goebbels on their wedding day. Best man- Adolf Hitler, 1931.

Pyramid of captured German helmets, New York, 1918

Soviet soldiers take a break to watch an acrobatic show on the march towards Berlin 1945.

Head of the Statue of Liberty on display  at the World's Fair in Paris, 1878.

Hilderaldo Luiz Bellini, here holding the 1958 World Cup trophy after Brazil beat Sweden.

Hoover Dam turbine construction, 1933-1935 -

1967 - The Beatles' shoot for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

1905 - Norway's first ever shipment of bananas.

A London milkman sticking to his schedule despite the German bombing raid in 1940.

U.S. military raising the American flag on Iwo Jima in February, 1945.

A Japanese family returning home from a relocation center camp in Hunt, Idaho on May 10, 1945.

The first Royce car in Cooke Street 1904. Photo courtesy Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust.

Bob Dylan playing in Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963.

German kids playing with stacks of German Marks. Due to hyperinflation, this was probably worth less than $1, 1923.

In 1949 an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.

The first photo ever taken of the Rolling Stones, 1962

Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, 1973

Photo Legend History  Stephen King & Drew Barrymore at the premiere of Firestarter, 1984

1923 - The Hollywood sign right after it was built.

Photo Legend History  1862 - Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan.

The real story behind the viral photo of Iranian Princess Fatemeh Khanum “‘Esmat al-Dowleh- recently a photo of Princess Esmat circulated by claming that "she was considered the ultimate symbol of beauty in Persia during the early 1900s. So much in fact, a total of 13 young men killed themselves because she rejected their love" - . . However, @victoriamartinezwriter wrote 'The only part of the meme that has a grain of truth to it is that there was indeed a period in Persian history when ‘Esmat’s appearance – namely, her “mustache” – was considered beautiful.' and that 'The primary figure in this history is Princess Fatemeh Khanum “‘Esmat al-Dowleh”[1] (1855/6-1905), a daughter of Nasar al-Din Shah Qajar (1831-1896), King of Persia from 1848-1896, and one of his wives, Taj al-Dowleh. The photograph circulating is indeed ‘Esmat, not an actor, and was taken by her husband circa the mid- to late-19th century. This information alone, readily available online and in...

Wilt Chamberlain running high school track in 1962

Red Army soldiers hoisting a hammer-and-sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945.

Photo Legend History 1909 - Wilbur Wright flies around the Statue of Liberty.

Photo Legend History Los Angeles, 1926 – Alerted by the smell of a broken bottle of liquor, Federal Agents inspect a “lumber truck”.