Category: Vintage Years

Homage to historic moments, photos and yesteryear photographers.

And it took a mutiny to change policing.

A vintage photo from 1900, and why policing changed in British India, from the Kotwali system of the Mughals.
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The loyal camel trooper of the British Indian army.

A photo from January 1857 shows a mounted Camel Trooper, possibly of the Punjab Irregulars.
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John Murray and his photo of the infamous well of Bibighar.

One of the earliest photos of the infamous well of Bibighar in Cawnpore, British India.
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Once upon a moonlit square: A photo of Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi by Felice Beato, 1857.

A Felice Beato photo reveals what Chandi Chowk in old Delhi was like in 1858.
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Japan’s human torpedoes.

Submarine I-361 loaded with Kaiten suicide torpedoes sails for the battle of Okinawa, 23rd May, 1945.
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Two torpedoes from the deep.

The submarine that sunk the USS Indianapolis, participates in a trial run inside Tokyo Bay, 1944.
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The ship that delivered the atom bomb.

The USS Indianapolis five days prior to embarking for Tinian Island, 10th July, 1945.
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I am death, destroyer of worlds.

Captured with a motion picture camera a clip shows a rapidly building mushroom cloud, 1945.
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Oppenheimer and his Chesterfield.

Robert J. Oppenheimer with a Chesterfield Cigarette, 1946.
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Shooting the atom.

Captured with a high speed motion picture camera, a still image of an atomic ball of fire, 1945.
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