Days Gone By

John H. Boyd, Globe and Mail newspaper staff wait for news of the D-Day invasion, Toronto, Canada, 6 June 1944.

Source: City of Toronto Archives

Lt. Comdr. Charles Fenno Jacobs, Much tattooed sailor aboard the USS New Jersey, December 1944.

Source: General Photographic File of the Department of Navy. National Archives and Records Administration

American Colony (Jerusalem), Hand-tinted photograph of a peasant spinning wool, Ramallah, Palestine, 1919.

Source: Library of Congress

American Colony (Jerusalem) Photo Department, Young woman of Ramallah wearing dowry headdress, Palestine, 1898-1914.

Source: Library of Congress

A young Aeta Negrito girl in Mariveles, Philippines, 1901.

Source: Special Collections Library, University of Michigan

Michael A. Wesner, Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy, Los Angeles, California, 1890s.

Attending surgeon’s office, examination room, Washington, D.C., World War I.

Source: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine

Lewis Wickes Hine, 10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots…Bluffton, South Carolina, February 1913.

Source: Library of Congress

Farm Security Administration photo of the sharecropping Handley family in Walker County, Alabama, ca. 1937.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration

Ben Shahn, Street musicians in Maynardville, Tennessee, USA, October 1935.

Source: Library of Congress