Historic Photos

Historic image of a yet unidentified man dancing in the streets of Sydney, Australia at the close of World War II (August 15, 1945) 

Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California by American photographer Dorothea Lange. Since then, the photograph has become an icon of the Great Depression. 

This image of workers taking a daredevil’s lunch break at the top of a skyscraper certainly makes the viewer dizzy but it also brings their attention to the very risky life the workers building the Rockefeller Center lead. In the first half of the 20th century, dozens of workers died after fatal falls during the construction of various skyscrapers. (1932)

Conrad Schumann was immortalized in this 1961 photograph as he leapt across the barricade that would become the Berlin Wall. The photo was called “The Leap into Freedom”. It became an iconic image of the Cold War. 

Tank Man, unidentified Chinese man who on June 5, 1989, faced down a column of People's Liberation Army (PLA) tanks on Chang’an Avenue in Beijing. The encounter came one day after the government launched a bloody crackdown that killed an unknown number of people in Beijing and cleared protesters from Tiananmen Square. “Tank Man,” as he was dubbed by the international media, became an enduring symbol of defiance in the face of violent authoritarianism. 

Footprint on the moon (Buzz Aldrin 1969)

Cathy Freeman Sydney Olympic Games 2000

Sailors of HMAS Perth in the Mediterranean Sea, March 1941 

Photographer - Unknown

Source - ww2dbaseAustralian War Memorial

Identification Code - 006846