The mining ghost town of Eureka in San Juan County, Colorado

Twins become mothers together for the second time in less than two years. Washington, D.C., April 7, 1939

Florence Norman, a British activist and suffragist, rides her scooter in London, 1916.

Ashtrays and coin-operated televisions in the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal, 1969.

Record listening booths at an HMV store in London, 1954.

A married couple stands in front of their charming house on the Nebraska prairie in the 1800s.

Kate Ward, a famous dog lover from Camberley, UK, poses with a bunch of stray dogs she had rescued and was caring for in 1967.

A woman reads to her 6-year-old child through a basement window during a 1949 polio epidemic quarantine

Mental health in the past: A patient in a restraint chair in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire, 1869

The opening day of Yankee Stadium on April 18th, 1923. The opening game was played against the Boston Red Sox.

The terrible toll of storming a beach - U.S. Marines at Tarawa, November 1943

American soldiers stationed in the Pacific listening to the radio reporting victory of WW2 by allied forces on May 8, 1945

Heinrich Himmler lying dead after swallowing a cyanide pill while being held prisoner by allied forces. May 23rd, 1945

Ted Geisel, better known as 'Dr. Seuss' working on a drawing of the Grinch for his book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", 1957.

Also in 1957, did you know you could enjoy a drive-in meal while cool air is piped into your car? You could in Texas

What it was like on the open road in Wyoming by Elliott Erwitt, 1954.

The lighter side of Ernest Hemingway, drinking at a Havana Bar, 1950s.

Secret service agent whips out a sub-machine gun while other agents and police officers subdue and restrain John Hickley Jr. who shot President Reagan in Washington. March 30th, 1981.

Teenagers at the record store, 1957

New York Times newsroom, 1942

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium, Chicago, 1900