Historical Photos of the Now-Imploded Las Vegas Tropicana Hotel
Early this morning, October 9, the historic Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas was imploded to make way for the new A’s Major League Baseball park. The hotel had been a …
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The 1924 Paris Olympics Featured Titanic Survivors and Flying Fins
Elizabeth Becker, from the United States, dives during the 1924 Games. The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris begins tonight and as is now tradition here at PetaPixel on a Friday, …
Photos From 1911 Show New York Struggling in Deadly Heatwave
It is getting hot. Depending on where you are in the world, it could be as high as 100 degrees Fahrenheit — the same temperature it got to in New …
Photos Reveal What Life was Like in Saloon Bars of The Wild West
Interior of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas. circa 1880 Fascinating photographs, taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, offer a glimpse into the legendary saloons …
Is This One of America’s First Selfies?
A historian has revealed how he uncovered a “selfie” photograph that was taken in the U.S. in the 1850s. According to a report by WZZM 13 on Your Side News, …
Discovery of 20,000 Photographs Reveal World’s First Police Crime Lab
Forensic-science pioneer Edmond Locard, center of the front row, and his team at the Lyon crime laboratory around 1930. Credit: Archives municipales de Lyon A huge collection of rediscovered photographs …
Scientists Develop Technique For Recovering Old Daguerreotype Photos
A 19th-century daguerreotype from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada which shows a portrait of a woman (left) and the image retrieved using the team’s synchrotron technique (right). …
Newly-Unearthed Photo May Reveal Iceberg That Sunk The Titanic
Another view of what appears to be the same iceberg that may have sunk the Titanic that is seen in a photograph up for auction this month. This image (above) …
Historical Photo Archive of the Pacific Northwest to be Made Public
Left to right: Photographer Asahel Curtis in Mount Rainier National Park, circa 1915. A parade in Seattle captured by Curtis in 1908. A photographer who was integral to documenting Washington …