Days Gone By

Chinese junks Sin Tong Heng and Tek Hwa Seng in the Singapore Strait, ca. 1936.

Source: Tropenmuseum

The heir to throne of the Indian state of Hyderabad, Asaf Jah VIII, being carried off board by his nanny on arrival in Bombay, 1934.

The first-class grand staircase aboard the SS Paris, ca. 1920s.

Frank Hurley, A glimpse of the Aurora from within the cavern in the wall of the ice-shelf of the Mertz Glacier Tongue, Commonwealth Bay, Adelie Land, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, December 1913.

Source: National Library of Australia

Gustave Le Gray, The Brig, France, 1856.

Source: Getty Museum

The USS San Francisco steams under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, December 1942.

Source: Naval Historical Center

President Theodore Roosevelt, (standing on 12 inch gun turret at right), addresses officers and crewmen on the after deck of USS Connecticut, BB-18, in Hampton Roads, Virginia, upon her return from the Atlantic Fleet’s cruise around the World, 22 February 1909.

Source: Naval Historical Center

Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louiswhile the ship was docked in the port of Havana, Cuba, May 1939.

Robert John Welch (1859-1936), official photographer for Harland & Wolff, Titanic leaving Belfast with two guiding tugs visible, 2 April 1912.