Retro Photos. Страница 9

V. I. Lenin and Yakov M. Sverdlov looking over just unveiled Marx and Engels Monument on Voskresensky Square (now Revolution Square) in Moscow, November 7, 1918.

San Francisco residents stand in the rubble-strewn streets watching the fire grow after the earthquake struck on April 18, 1906.

Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Emperor Haile Selassie. Aksum, Ethiopia, 1965.

Women and men work amid rows of artillery shells at the National Filling Factory in Chilwell, Great Britain, 1917.

An aerial view of the wreckage of the Hindenburg airship near the hangar at the Naval Air station in Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, on May 7, 1937.

Bookmobile in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. 170.770 volumes were circulated in 1936.

A group photo of military electricians, USA, 1918.

Salvador Dali painting «The Face of War», California, USA, 1940.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with members of his family in the private grounds of Tsarskoe Selo, 1916. (L-R) Aide-de-camp Sablin, Tsar Nicholas II, the Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Olga, Maria, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei. In front of Maria is Prince Vasili, behind her are the Princes Nikita, Rostislav and Dmitri.

Photograph of participants of the first Solvay Conference, in 1911, Brussels, Belgium. Seated (L-R): Walther Nernst, Marcel Brillouin, Ernest Solvay (he wasn't present when the above group photo was taken; his portrait was crudely pasted on before the picture was released), Hendrik Lorentz, Emil Warburg, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Wilhelm Wien, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Poincaré. Standing (L-R): Robert Goldschmidt, Max Planck, Heinrich Rubens, Arnold Sommerfeld, Frederick Lindemann, Maurice de Broglie, Martin Knudsen, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Georges Hostelet, Edouard Herzen, James Hopwood Jeans, Ernest Rutherford, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Albert Einstein, and Paul Langevin.

Leo Tolstoy playing chess with his son-in-law Michael S. Suchotin. Yasnaya Polyana, Russia, 1908.

Members of the white supremacist movement, the Ku Klux Klan standing by an aeroplane, out of which they dropped publicity leaflets over Washington, USA, 1922.

Protesters, Ireland’s ‘Bloody Sunday’. January 30th 1972.

There was a lot of tension during the Cuban missile crisis, so much so that the US Army deployed anti-aircraft Hawk missiles on a Florida beach in Key West. Photo was taken October 27, 1962.

The first international tennis match takes place at Wimbledon, London, 1883.

Filming the atomic blast of Wasp Prime Test, Nevada, USA, 18th February 1955.

Child soldiers taking a smoke break, Angola, 1976.

John Lennon records at Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom, 1965.