Category: Historical Photos

Imagine a city with a history as rich and complex as Jerusalem’s. This ancient city, revered by three major religions, has been at the center […]

Photo taken in the 1840s. The pictures in this collection are some of the earliest known portrait photographs to ever be taken. The subjects in […]

Las Vegas is known as the city of lights and, at one time, that light was the glow of an atomic detonation in the Nevada […]

Explore the past and check out forgotten gadgets from the early 1900s. Not every gadget from back then became a big deal. In this exploration, […]

In this article, we invite you to travel back in time to Athens of the 19th century, a city of stark contrasts and rapid development. […]

Long before sleek flat screens adorned our living rooms, television sets were bold expressions of artistic ingenuity, pushing the boundaries of conventional aesthetics. From the […]

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photography was becoming more accessible, allowing people to capture cherished moments from everyday life. Among these moments […]

West Berlin citizens hold a vigil atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on November 10, 1989, the day after the East […]

On April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for […]

Every day between 1925 and 1935, Hachiko, a dog with unwavering loyalty, turned Tokyo’s Shibuya train station into the stage for his daily vigil, hoping […]