Elizabeth Becker, from the United States, dives during the 1924 Games. The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris begins tonight and as is now tradition here at PetaPixel on a Friday, …
It is getting hot. Depending on where you are in the world, it could be as high as 100 degrees Fahrenheit — the same temperature it got to in New …
Interior of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas. circa 1880 Fascinating photographs, taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, offer a glimpse into the legendary saloons …
A historian has revealed how he uncovered a “selfie” photograph that was taken in the U.S. in the 1850s. According to a report by WZZM 13 on Your Side News, …
Forensic-science pioneer Edmond Locard, center of the front row, and his team at the Lyon crime laboratory around 1930. Credit: Archives municipales de Lyon A huge collection of rediscovered photographs …
A 19th-century daguerreotype from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada which shows a portrait of a woman (left) and the image retrieved using the team’s synchrotron technique (right). …
Another view of what appears to be the same iceberg that may have sunk the Titanic that is seen in a photograph up for auction this month. This image (above) …
Left to right: Photographer Asahel Curtis in Mount Rainier National Park, circa 1915. A parade in Seattle captured by Curtis in 1908. A photographer who was integral to documenting Washington …