23 Black and White Photographs That Are Like a Time Machine

#1 Postman Walking Through the Streets of Buenos Aires, CA 1930

#2 Mobile Public Library in Cincinnati, CA. 1927

#3 Members of Brighton Swimming Club, 1863

#4 Men Playing Dominoes in a North London Pub, Mid 1930s

#5 Man and Woman Who Swapped Outfits, Early 19th Century

#6 Police Try to Stop Edna Egbert From Committing Suicide. The Woman Wanted to Jump From the Second Floor of Her Brooklyn Home, 1942

#7 A Woman Uses Money to Burn in a Stove During a Period of Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, 1920

#8 Woman Wearing a Mask During the Spanish Flu Epidemic, 1919

#9 Australian Army Corporal Holding a Koala in His Arms. Taken in Cairo in 1915

#10 The Famous 5th Avenue in New York City, 1897

#11 A Pigeon Equipped With a Camera. The Birds Were Used During World War I to Take Pictures of the Front Lines

#12 Man Trying to Get a Cow Onto a Bus, Paris 1950s

#13 Woman and Cats, Lübeck 1950s

#14 Woodcutters Posing by a Cut Sequoia Tree, California, 1891

#15 A Post Office Inspector Tests a Stretching Device. It Was Designed to Increase a Person’s Height by 5 to 15 Centimeters

#16 Trolleys Mounted on Hooks on the Back of a Bus, New Zealand Circa 1950

#17 Belgian Refugees Fleeing Brussels, 1914

#18 The Statue of Louis Agassiz (Swiss-American Scientist) Fell From the Facade of a Building During the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

#19 A Child Being Prepared for an X-Ray, Chicago Hospital, 1942

#20 Children Sleeping in the Cold, Moscow, 1958

#21 A Woman Celebrates Her Birthday, Iran, 1973

#22 Soviet Villagers Listen to a Radio for the First Time, 1928

#23 Peter Freuchen (Danish Explorer, Writer) Poses With His Wife, 1947