#documentinghistory

In 1950s Japan, Hayato Ichikawa photographed a striped cat standing upright, curiously inspecting fish on a quiet vendor’s street

Photo by Wilhelm Von Gloeden. Little girl sitting with baby goat, 1900

A train begins its journey from Lime Street Railway Station in Liverpool, 1954. Photo by Bert Hardy

Pamela Green, born in 1929 in Kingston upon Thames, England, modeled and acted in Britain from 1948 till 1980, co founded Kamera Studios with partner George Harrison Marks, and became a pioneer in British glamour modeling.

Bathing beauties emerge from a “solarium” (a tanning booth), in St. Petersburg, Florida, June 1929. Photograph by Clifton R. Adams

A stunning photo of a Fenwick’s window dresser. London, 1954.

Explorer Robert E. Peary in sheepskin, 1914-15. Photograph by Joseph H. Bailey