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10/28/2026

Israel History | Part 17 of 17.

10/28/2026

Israel History | Part 16 of 17.

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Israel History | Part 15 of 17.

10/28/2026

Israel History | Part 14 of 17.

10/28/2026

The audience stood on a rooftop. The performer went higher.

This 1924 photograph shows John Reynolds, known as the “Human Fly,” demonstrating his skills on the roof of the Times-Herald Building in Washington, D.C.

Look at the chair beneath him, the people watching, and the drop beyond the edge. A city building had become a stage.

Photo: National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-99833.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/90708942/

10/28/2026

Niagara Falls once looked like a frozen mountain range.

George Barker’s 1883 photograph captures the extraordinary ice formations at Niagara. The archive identifies the scene as an ice bridge.

Look closely at the frozen landscape and the water behind it: an ice bridge could form below the falls while water continued to flow.

Photo: George Barker, Library of Congress, digital ID cph.3b26697, via Wikimedia Commons.
Image record: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Barker,_Ice_Bridge,_Niagara_Falls_cph.3b26697.jpg

10/28/2026

Funny cat pictures were already a thing in 1914.

Photographer Harry Whittier Frees staged these three kittens in pajamas with a candle for a novelty photograph titled “Ready for bed.”

More than a century later, the appeal is easy to understand. Tiny clothes. Serious expressions. Absolutely no interest in our bedtime rules.

Which kitten looks the most ready to escape?

Photo: Harry Whittier Frees, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ds-04048.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2013648293/

10/28/2026

This is what a photographer found beneath Paris in 1862.

Nadar photographed the bone-lined catacombs in April 1862 using artificial light from an early arc lamp. The eerie scene documents a real underground ossuary, where human remains were arranged beneath the city.

The photograph’s technical challenge was bringing enough light into the darkness.

Photo: Nadar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, object 2005.100.813. Public-domain image.
Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286161

10/28/2026

A day at the beach came with a tape measure.

Washington, D.C., 1922: bathing-beach policeman Bill Norton measures the distance between a woman’s knee and the bottom of her swimsuit. The archive’s caption describes a local order allowing no more than six inches above the knee.

An ordinary beach scene, with a very different set of rules.

Photo: National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-99824.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/90708909/

10/28/2026

Her stage was a flying airplane.

This 1922 photograph shows aerial acrobat Lillian Boyer performing a stunt called the “breakaway.” Look beneath the biplane: that small figure is the performer.

Early aviation shows turned flying into a public spectacle, with acrobats supplying some extraordinary sights.

Would you have watched from the ground?

Photo: Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-71278, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003656132/

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