A girl licks ice cream and plays with the tip of the guns bayonet to try and elicit a reaction from a royal guard in Sweden in 1970. The guard is a real guard, however, the girl works for an adult magazine, hence the setting:
Men taking people from their boats to the shore in Ghana in 1960. They would even carry them in the chair on the right to ensure they never got wet:
A British sailor sawing off the shackle of a freed African slave somewhere off the coast of the Congo/Angola area in 1907:
Japanese women protesting for women's rights in Tokyo, Japan, in 1922:
Heavy traffic fills the roads in NYC, USA in 1923:
English women protesting their governments stance on refusing to allow them to serve in WWI in 1915. Word had spread that other countries including Italy and Russia had already allowed women to serve, creating anger from those women in England who also wished to serve:
Natives of Hawaii on the beach of Waikiki after a morning of fishing in 1895:
2 Russian models show off some new looks in 1968:
Men cut and remove blocks of ice to sell from the frozen Kisenna Lake in NYC in 1886:
Corporal Yukio Araki (age 17, center) was one of the youngest Japanese pilots and became famous for this photo and his letters to his family after the war. Here he is with 4 fellow Kamikaze pilots in 1945. All these men died in Kamikaze attacks the day after this photo was taken:
Norwegian, Swedish or Finish children from a nomadic group (possibly Sami) in 1884:
The Peek-a-Boo Girls practicing a routine at the Revere Beach near Boston, USA in 1920:
Big Bird from Sesame Street being introduced to Chinese civilians while filming a special series called Big Bird in China for PBS in 1982:
An English tank patrols the street during an uprising in Dublin, Ireland, in 1921:
Belgian driver Jacky Ickx just narrowly escaping his crashed race car during the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix before it was engulfed in flames. The driver is in fact on fire, and would be put out shortly after this picture. He suffered severe burns but would be driving again just 17 days later:
Tibetan children arrive in a refugee camp in India after fleeing their homeland in 1962:
Border patrol agents try and drag a fugitive border jumper as he tries to get back to Mexico in this colorized picture from 1920:
Tattoo artist Herbert Hoffman (left) hanging out with some of his friends as they all show off their tattoos in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1953:
Despite it's heavy use and being unpaved, this is a main road in the middle of Caracas, Venezuela in 1953:
This picture shows a woman on the verge of starving to death in the Ghetto of Warsaw, Poland in 1941. This picture was taken by a German Wehrmacht Sergeant named Heinz Joest who spent his birthday illegally inside the Ghetto snapping pictures that would eventually be smuggled out to show the horrors happening inside the Ghetto:
Source for pictures and captions can be found here.