The Punt Gun could discharge over a pound of shot at a time that could kill as many as 50 birds. This depleted stocks of wild waterfowl and by the 1860s most US states had banned the practice.

A picture of a crowd in New York, 1939 there is not one unhatted head

Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923

Dagen H, the day Sweden switched sides of the road, 1967

German soldier taking aim from the back of a trained horse, 1935

Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945

Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Asanuma in Tokyo, 1960 Photo taken after initial stab

The first bananas in Norway, 1905

The face of a hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk before masks became standard game equipment, 1966

Stalin in an off-record photo captured by his bodyguard Vlasik

US intelligence images of how Hitler could have disguised himself, 1944

Federal ironclad USS Galena showing some battle damage, 1862

A photo of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, taken the morning of April 15, 1912 from board of the ship Prinz Adalbert, before knowing the Titanic had sunk. The smear of red paint along the base of the berg bottom right prompted the chief steward to take the picture

Defiant until the very end, a German Communist being executed in Munich, 1919

German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

A young Adolf Hitler cheering the start of World War One, 1914

Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942

A photo illustrating the class divide of pre-war Britain, 1937