Laika, the first dog in space. No provisions were made for her return, and she died there 1957

A wave of mass suicides swept Nazi Germany at the close of WW2. Here, the Deputy Mayor of Leipzig and his wife and daughter, committed suicide in the Neues Rathaus as American troops were entering the city on 20 April 1945

The last known Tasmanian Tiger Photgraphed in 1933

The Corpse of the Notorious Cult Leader ‘Jim Jones’ Who Coerced 909 People to Commit Suicide in 1978

A letter from Gandhi to Hitler, written a month before the latter invaded Poland and started WWII

The aftermath from a B-25 bomber crashing into the Empire State Building 1945

The original Moulin Rouge the year before it burned down – Paris, France 1914

General George S. Patton’s dog on the day of Patton’s death on December 21st, 1945

Lyndon B. Johnson cries as he listens to his son-in-law describe conditions in Vietnam. 1968

Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, 3 Hours After the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb

Japan one month after Hiroshima, 1945

Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio at the Fairmont Banff Hotel in Banff, Canada, five months before their wedding. August 19, 1953

Ku Klux Klan at the carnival in Canon City, 1925

Germans returning after the Battle of Berlin gaze up at the new order of things, Berlin, July 1945

The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln 1861

The Whipping Scars On The Back of The Fugitive Slave Named Gordon 1863

Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, mid-late 19th century

Gold diggers marching through Chilkoot pass, the only way towards Dawson City, 1898

Iceberg that had red and black paint on it. They believe that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Photographed in 1912

Driving class at Michigan Highland Park University, 1939

Japanese guards bow before US prisoners of war being released from a Yokohama detention center following the capitulation of Japan, 1945

Slave torturing devices. The collar may have been used to prevent him from escaping through narrow openings, like windows, etc, 1863

4 year old Joseph Schleifstein, who survived the Holocaust by being kept hidden by his father, from Nazi officials inside Buchenwald concentration camp, is seen here shortly after his liberation in April, 1945

Julia Child doing her cooking show ‘The French Chef’, 1963