Rare historical photographs

Cowboy Trading Post in Arizona: Schlitz Beer, Gila Monster’s, and Rattlesnakes… (Undated).

 

The two Kashmir Giants posing with the American photographer James Ricalton, 1903.

 

1950s, Chicago: In the foreground is the Minnetonka, Northern Pacific Railway’s first locomotive. Built in 1870, is 27 feet long, 10 fee thigh, weighs 12 tons and cost $6.700. In comparison, the new 4500 H. P. Diesel locomotives which power the streamlined North Coast Limited are 151 feet 4 inches long, 15 feet high, weigh 345 tons and cost $458,000. The headend of one of the Diesels is shown in the background. -“Wheels A-Rolling.” (Photo by Kalama Archive / M Bishop).

 

Peel P 50 single-seat car, accelerating up to 64 kmph (40 mph). Great Britain, 1962. Designed as a city car, it was advertised as capable of seating “one adult and a shopping bag.” The vehicle’s only door was on its left side, and equipment included a single windscreen wiper and only one headlight.

 

Moving a house in San Francisco, US in 1919.

 

A man selling brooms and baskets. Japan, 1890s.

 

Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, 1937.

 

Franz Reichelt, an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor, and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.

 

Boy selling Coca-Cola from a roadside stand, 1936.

 

The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza (created in 1850s). The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but in fact, it is carved of marble.