Days Gone By

Mark Kauffman, Hong Kong, March 1947.

H.D. Chadwick, San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: Ruins in vicinity of Post and Grant Avenue. Looking northeast.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration

Trinity Hall buildings being demolished at Cambridge University, England, ca. 1870.

Walter Sanders, Young boys with a bicycle in front of ruins from World War II, Hanover, Germany, May 1949.

Dmitri Kessel, Lycabeltos and the chapel of Haghios Georgios overlooking Athens, Greece, December 1944.

A man grieving over the wreckage of a Catholic church burned during an uprising against Peron. Photograph by Hank Walker. Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 1955.

An artist painting in front of the Arch of Constantine. Photograph by John Phillips. Rome, Italy, February 1949.

A soldier standing on a pile of rubble and looking at a ruined church during WWI. Montfaucon, France, 1918.

Margaret Bourke-White, An American flag flying from a hole in the bomb-damaged dome of a building after a series of Allied air attacks on the devastated city, Cologne, Germany, April 1945.

“Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park” by Ansel Adams. Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA, 1941.