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If you've had the chance to explore your old family photo albums, you may have stumbled upon pictures of your ancestors who were born du...

In 1899, the Chicago & Alton Railway introduced a new intercity rail service between Chicago and St. Louis. Pulled by a 4-6-2 steam loco...

It doesn’t look like much, but this is the world’s first photograph, or rather, the oldest surviving photograph, or both. It was taken by ...

In the olden days before photography, people used to hire painters to create portraits of those who had recently died as a way to keep the...

In his series “Restricted Areas”, Moscow-based visual artist Danila Tkachenko looks at the human impulse to use destructive technologies in ...