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Photograph: Suna River, 1915
An early color photograph of the Suna River by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944), who is also featured in the picture.
An early color photograph of the Suna River by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944), who is also featured in the picture.
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
A Burlington Route brochure promoting the new “Vista-Dome” coaches in 1955.
A 20th-century photograph of Salo de Tequendema in Colombia, taken by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez.
Covering the crater of a 1977 nuclear test, the “Cactus Dome” contains 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil.
Franz Kebl photographed the propeller sled Schneespatz, used in Alfred Wegener’s 1930 Greenland expedition.
Map of the “Great Republican Valley” showing Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road lands for sale in Nebraska (1879).