Some of these photographs are profound but most are mundane. Whatever they are, they afford us an opportunity to take a peek into the past. Each in their own way, offers but the merely glimpse into that past.
Main picture: 1924 – Friends in Ohio enjoy a ride in their new car

1982 – 86 year-old World War I veteran Joseph Ambrose attends a parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

1986 – The Shuttle Challenger up close. Notice the brown smoke at the bottom right, indicating a leak, which lead to its fatal explosion

1970 – A rare glimpse of Venus, images from the Soviet probe

1966 – A young Meryl Streep as a cheerleader at Bernards High School, New Jersey

1964 – An early morning train ride in Japan

1963 – Robert Kennedy being comforted by his children after learning of his brother’s assassination

1963 – In Florida, less than a week before his assassination, John F. Kennedy watches the firing of a missile by a submerged nuclear submarine

938 – A policeman catches a few youngsters in Luton, England. They were sneaking a look at the Bertram Mill Circus’ rehearsals

1934 – In New York, Martin L. Lambert is denied a marriage license to Violet Hilton because she had a conjoined twin sister, Daisy as the judge considered it immoral to grant the license

1882 – Tom Torlino, a Navajo man, transforms his look at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania