11. Old photographic tradition – medical students taking pictures with their cadavers as sort of a first portrait into the medical field, c. 1890s-1900s.
A common trope was “the Student’s Dream” where the medical student was being dissected by his cadavers.
12. A little French paperboy selling papers in the Canadian line, June 1917.
13. Young couple kissing before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
14. Jackie Kennedy taking a mirror selfie with John F Kennedy and Ethel, his sister-in-law and wife of Robert Kennedy, 1954.
15. Fat man race, Moscow, Idaho, 4 July 1911.
16. An engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958.
The photo was taken by Berenice Abbott.
17. Richard Jordan Gatling posing with Gatling Gun, the first successful machine gun, 1893.
18. The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamun’s tomb, which stayed 3,245 years untouched until the excavation, 1922.
19. Chernobyl plant directors Viktor Bryukhanov (left), Anatoly Dyatlov (center), and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin, during their court trial following the 1986 nuclear disaster, 1987.
20. An elderly couple helping to clear the debris during the post-war reconstruction of bomb-damaged Dresden, 1946.
