Post-War Era
1970-1979
Hotel Stadt Berlin and Centrum Department Store, GDR 1970s
This striking photograph captures the architectural intersection of the Hotel Stadt Berlin and the Centrum Department St...
Post-War Era
1968
LOT Polish Airlines Flight Attendants in 1968: A Retro Aviation Snapshot
This striking black-and-white photograph, captured by Polish photographer Edward Uchymiak in 1968, depicts a line of LOT...
Post-War Era
1950
Soviet Soldiers Feeding Polar Bears from a Tank, 1950
This striking photograph captures a surreal moment in the high Arctic during the early Cold War era, circa 1950. It depi...
Post-War Era
1951
General Dwight D. Eisenhower Wearing a Bersaglieri Vaira in 1951
This photograph captures a lighthearted moment in 1951, featuring General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Comma...
Post-War Era
1979
Downtown Kabul in 1979: A Glimpse Before the Soviet Invasion
This photograph captures a poignant moment in the history of Kabul, Afghanistan, taken in early 1979. The image depicts ...
Post-War Era
1980-1985
Toronto Gas Station Boycotts Lada Cars During Soviet-Afghan War (1980s)
This photograph captures a poignant moment of Cold War sentiment in Canada during the 1980s. A Toronto gas station atten...
Post-War Era
1981
Anwar Sadat's Final Salute: The 1981 Cairo Military Parade
This historic photograph captures Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, flanked by Vice President Hosni Mubarak and Minister o...
Post-War Era
1991
Dismantling the Lenin Monument in East Berlin, 1991
This striking photograph captures the symbolic end of an era: the dismantling of a massive granite bust of Vladimir Leni...
Post-War Era
1965
Wernher von Braun at Marshall Space Flight Center, 1965
This iconic 1965 photograph captures Wernher von Braun, the architect of the American space program, in his office at th...
Post-War Era
1974
Antanas Sutkus: Youth on a Motorcycle in 1974 Soviet Lithuania
Captured in 1974 by the renowned Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus, this evocative black-and-white image portrays a...
Post-War Era
1946
The Execution of Romanian Dictator Ion Antonescu, 1946
This stark photograph captures the immediate aftermath of the execution of Ion Antonescu, the Conducător (leader) of Rom...
Post-War Era
1967
US Marines Using Flamethrowers in the Vietnam War, 1967
This striking black-and-white photograph captures a quintessential moment of the Vietnam War in 1967, depicting a United...