The invention of photography changed the world in a way few other inventions have. Before cameras became widely available, capturing a person, place, or moment realistically took hours of work through ...

I love history, so every week I round up the most fascinating photos I can find from across time and space. Below are the best of the best, my favorite and most mind-blowing images from the past 30 ...

The founders of www.duryeapa.com, the Duryea history site, are looking for vintage photos of Duryea pre-1960. The photos can pertain to sports teams, schools, classrooms and graduations, church ...

The past can be quite fascinating. Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the past ...

Sometimes old photographs hold their secrets for years. A noted Civil War picture called "Confederate Dead on Matthews Hill" at Bull Run showed four dead soldiers in a forest clearing. But about 25 ...

At top and bottom of this page are the first clear portrait ever made of individual molecules and the first detailed glimpse of a chemical reaction. Shown privately last fortnight before the American ...

Photos have a quiet magic to them… they can pull us out of the present and drop us into another moment in an instant. This feeling is even stronger when we look at historic pictures taken across ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - "I was taught that I was shooting for posterity because everything that I shot was historical." On April 15, 1967, photojournalist Santi Visalli was given an assignment to ...

“Seeing Philadelphia” is the first public exhibition of the city’s historical archive since the collection was acquired by Drexel University. "Seeing Philadelphia" an exhibit at the Pennsylvania ...

The contribution that the late Canton photographer Taylor Matthews made to preserving the history of the city's African American community can be measured by the multitude of images he left behind.