A policeman in New York City stops traffic so a cat can carry its kittens safely across the street, 1925.

Some very brave New York painters in the 1930s.

Race organizers attempt to stop Kathrine Switzer from competing in the Boston Marathon. She became the first woman to finish the race, 1967

Eight year-old Samuel Reshevsky defeating several chess masters at once in 1920.

Five Australian former POWs catch up on news, after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, Sep 1945

These brothers from West Virginia fought on different sides of the Civil War. Both survived and posed for this photograph in 1910.

Henry Ford and his wife in the first car he built in 1896, in a photograph from 1946.

In 1919, the first 'Metropolitan Police Women Patrols' took to the streets of London.

Rural mail carrier in his winter uniform, Sweden, 1900.

A little boy walking to his friends encounters British soldiers around the corner in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1973)