steroge:

Joueur d’Orgue (Organ-Grinder and Girl), 1898-99
Jean-Eugene-Auguste Atget

itsjohnsen:

Lance Corporal W.J. Curtis, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, fixes the burnt leg of a boy as his younger brother looks on. Normandy, 1944.
Ken Bell

itsjohnsen:

A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into Paris on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France.
National Archives

oldiegoldie:

Paris in the early 20’s.

oldiegoldie:

Paris in the early 20’s.

itsjohnsen:

Two girls on England’s south coast look out through barbed wire as part of Britain’s coastal defenses during the Second World War.
The Atlantic

updownsmilefrown:

19 yr. old, Barbara Hernandez, quaffs a cola while checking the chalkboard against the tape for a St. Louis brokerage during the market’s historic plunge on May 28, 1962

thenewmanhattanite:

Churchill with his son and grandson.