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A mysterious stranger walking along Middlesex Streer. London E1. c1890s…
November 24, 2024 at 8:27 AM
This is how the back of my building looked in the 40'50's growing up in Sunset Park Brooklyn 😍My Pop was the Super, He would climb the 60ft pole and attach the clothed lines to the pulleys 🥰 Life was Hard, But We Always Helped Each Other 😟
November 24, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Lieutenant Colonel Vishwanathan, CO of the 22 Maratha Light Infantry, and one of his soldiers with a captured Pakistani army officer after the battle of Hilli was over.
November 24, 2024 at 8:26 AM
An Ottoman officer in Jerusalem, Palestine, 1898CE.
November 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Bombay Fire brigade, Fire fighters with horse carts— circa 1920’s.
November 19, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Bullock Cart, Delhi— circa 1863.
November 19, 2024 at 8:58 AM
People of Lahore in 1920. I stand corrected.
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley... Washington, 1939
November 19, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Two Sikh men walking down Shaftesbury Avenue in London's Piccadilly, time period 4th July 1953

Photo Courtesy of Bert Hardy
November 19, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Group photograph of Sikh officers and British officers, 3rd Sikh Infantry: Waziristan campaign, 3rd November 1894 to March 1895, on the North-West Frontier of India

They have swords and cross belts which indicate their status.
#History #Photography
November 19, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Street in Peshawar or Amritsar signboard in Punjabi, "Khalsa Hotel Jhatka Maha Prasad Malak Mehar Singh" c. 1944
#History #Photography
November 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM
1939. Harlem.

Jamming the sidewalk, balconies, and other vantage points is the crowd that turned out in Harlem to watch the parade along Lenox Avenue. The parade was held in connection with the convention of Negro Elks in New York City.
#Newyork #photography
November 19, 2024 at 8:19 AM
1913s
November 19, 2024 at 8:15 AM
FROM SALLY: My Father, ROBIN WOODHOUSE, took these pics while working on the Mangla Dam project in the 1960’s. My siblings and I at Mangla International School.
#photography #history
November 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM
November 19, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Group of merchants from Kabul— Afghans in Peshawar, 1860s.
November 19, 2024 at 5:52 AM
American woman welders during World War II
November 19, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Pennsylvania, 1946...

Caption
Miner's family on porch of company home. H. C. Frick Coke Company, National #3 Mine, Muse, Washington County, Pennsylvania...

Source
National Archives Russell Lee photographer
November 19, 2024 at 4:58 AM
1955 newly built Bronxdale Houses now Sotomayor
November 19, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Girls with bicycles, Kinnaird College, Lahore— circa 1930-40s.
November 19, 2024 at 4:55 AM
A View of Times Square in 1912. See also some interesting old photos of Times Square through the years
November 19, 2024 at 4:54 AM
world's first airplane
#Bluesky
November 19, 2024 at 4:47 AM
world's first computer
November 19, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Bombay, Pydhownie Street in 1910 and 1920s.
November 19, 2024 at 4:43 AM
A lady at a pay phone outside of a Woolworth's in the 1960s
November 19, 2024 at 4:37 AM