How Things Were

Russian Imperial Romanov family (circa 1914)

Thiers, France (1890-1900)

The Singer Building in New York, demolished in 1967, was the tallest building in the world when it was built

American soldier standing in the ruined Monument to the Battle of Nations in Leipzig, Germany (1945)

A picture-perfect Marilyn Monroe with Joe DiMaggio (1953)

John Lennon attempting to retrieve his guitar pick while in India (1968)

President Lyndon B. Johnson at the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" ― John F. Kennedy

The 3245 year old seal on Tutankhamun's tomb before it was broken (1922)

Swimmers at a Las Vegas hotel watch a mushroom cloud from an atomic test 75 miles away (1953)

First aerial photograph of Lower Manhattan (1906)

Ruins of Ctesiphon, Iraq (1932)

Michael Jackson and the Reagans at the White House for the launch of a campaign against drunk driving (1984)

Las Vegas (1906)

Eugene Cernan on the surface of the moon (1972)

President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany (April 1917)

Tourists peer over a cliff into the Grand Canyon (1880)

The thylacine, popularly known the Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to extinction in the 1930s