Albert Einstein’s desk at Princeton. Photo taken a few hours after his death on April 18, 1955.
Found at life.time.com
Category Archives: Photos
Opened by Censor
Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department worker checks the content of a letter”.
During the Second World War personal correspondence was routinely censored.
Found at the Flickr stream of the British National Archives
Red Cross Singalong, 1944
Red Cross workers entertain troops. Taken either in Germany or Egypt, not sure which.
Photo from the estate of Margaret Draper
The Computer Engineer – 1952
Grace Hopper, American computer scientist, stands in front of a Univac mainframe in 1952.
Photo: Computer History Museum
Love is timeless – Paris, 1958
A Woman and her Harley, 1910
Reunion of Slaves, 1916.
Lewis Martin, age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, age 104;
Amy Ware, age 103; Rev. Simon P. Drew, born free. Photo: Harris & Ewing, 1916
Found at shorpy.com
Ten years after the war
Vintage Price Stickers
From a gentler time; notice they’re not perforated as today’s stickers are.
The Old Wolf has Spoken
Chalmers Butterfield: London, 1949
Two beautiful images of London street life in the rich colors of Kodachrome, taken by Chalmers Butterfield. These and other zoomable images can be found at Retronaut.
The Old Wolf loves London. But not the Ministry of Truth uh, the Shard. 
Playing in the World Game 