Category Archives: history

$2 Junk Shop Photo Turns Out to Be $5,000,000 Photo of Billy the Kid

Back in 2010, a man named Randy Guijarro in Fresno, California, found and purchased an old tintype photo for $2 at a junk shop. It turns out that photo is worth up to $5 millionbecause it’s only the second authenticated picture that shows the famous outlaw Billy the Kid. Kagin’s, the Western American experts that […]

Geisha in swimsuits, rarely seen

December 1, 2013 0 Comments Peter House Rare Vintage Swimsuit Photos Of Geisha Rob Oechsle, a photographer and researcher, has compiled a series of photographs from the late 19th and early 20th century featuring Geishas. What makes these photos all the more striking is the fact that they feature these women in swimwear and against […]

All these are moments of history

Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920 The last known picture of Adolf Hitler, April 30, 1945   Eisenhower’s Inauguration on January 20, 1953   Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light c. 1937   Marilyn Monroe performing for troops stationed in Korea, February 1954   The last known […]