The city of Dresden, Germany, in ruins after World War II , 1945

Construction workers restoring the Notre Dame cathedral , 1950

American nurses wearing gas masks at a hospital in France during WWI

The Lincoln Memorial under construction, circa 1914-1922

A zeppelin flying over the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt , 1931

The very first Christmas tree erected at the Rockefeller Center in New York City, 1931

Charging one of history's first electric cars, 1905

ow the police tested bulletproof vests back in 1923

In 1903, Edward Lewellen caught the largest sea bass ever seen at that time

A woman having a seam painted onto her leg to make it appear as if she is wearing stockings, 1926

Contestants in the 'Miss Lovely Eyes' pageant in Florida wearing masks to obscure the rest of their faces, 1930

Wooden swimsuits, 1929

A policeman judges an ankle competition at Hounslow, London, in 1930

Max Factor's 1931 Ice Mask

Woman using a suntan vending machine, 1949

A hairdryer from the 1920s

Ironing hair in order to straighten it, 1964

A 15-year-old trapper boy sits at a door to the entrance of a West Virginia coal mine in 1908. Trapper boys were paid a pittance to sit in the same spot for 10 hours at a time to open and close the doors when coal cars came past

A young Bruce Lee learns the ancient martial art of Wing Chun from Grandmaster Ip Man some time during the 1960s

This scene inside a butcher’s shop was captured on Water Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1905.

A British R33-class airship, which measured almost 650 feet long, pokes its nose out of a gigantic hangar in Barlow, Yorkshire prior to its launch in 1919