George Harrison Meets Bob Marley, 1975

These classic photos of George Harrison and Bob Marley was taken on July 13, 1975, backstage at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Having heard that George was a fan of Marley’s music, the president of Island Records, Charley Nuccio, invited George to the show to meet Marley. When told that George Harrison was coming backstage, Marley visibly lit up and said, “Ras Beatle!!” Here’s the only photos from this historic meeting taken by Kim Gottlieb Walker.

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Amazing Photographs Captured New York City's Street Scenes From Between the 1960s and '70s

Photographer Paul McDonough has a knack for catching passing, off-kilter incongruities on the New York City streets. He arrived in the city in 1967 and started taking photographs of unique moments happening around him; the New York City 1968-1972 series is said to be his first as a photographer.

Capturing weirdness on the streets of New York City might seem like an easy feat, but McDonough has a rare ability to capture a confluence of gestures in the exact moment in which a great photograph happens.

Two Women in White Shorts, 1973

Women in Fur Coats, 1974

Two Men on Stand Pipes Watching Parade, 1975

Me and Woman on Crutches, 1973

Hari Krishna and Blind Man, 1973

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30 Vintage Photos of the 1910 Great Flood of Paris

The 1910 Great Flood of Paris was a catastrophe in which the Seine River, carrying winter rains from its tributaries, flooded Paris, France, and several nearby communities.

In late January 1910, following months of high rainfall, the Seine River flooded Paris when water pushed upwards from overflowing sewers and subway tunnels, and seeped into basements through fully saturated soil. The waters did not overflow the river's banks within the city, but flooded Paris through tunnels, sewers, and drains. In neighbouring towns both east and west of the capital, the river rose above its banks and flooded the surrounding terrain directly.

Winter floods were a normal occurrence in Paris but, on 21 January, the river began to rise more rapidly than normal. Over the course of the following week, thousands of Parisians evacuated their homes as water infiltrated buildings and streets throughout the city, shutting down much of Paris' basic infrastructure. Police, fire-fighters, and soldiers moved through waterlogged streets in boats to rescue stranded residents from second-story windows and to distribute aid. Refugees gathered in makeshift shelters in churches, schools, and government buildings. Although the water threatened to overflow the tops of the quay walls that line the river, workmen were able to keep the Seine back with hastily built levees.

Once water invaded the Gare d'Orsay rail terminal, its tracks soon sat under more than a metre of water. To continue moving throughout the city, residents travelled by boat or across a series of wooden walkways built by government engineers and by Parisians themselves.

On 28 January the water reached its maximum height at 8.62 metres (28.28 feet) above its normal level.

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27 Fascinating Vintage Portrait Photos of North Africa's Women

In this gallery of female portraits includes pictures made ​​from between the 1880s to the 1950s. Here, there are representatives of almost all the nations and tribes of "Arab" North Africa region and partly in the Middle East - Bedouin Berber, Arab, Ethiopian, and a so-called "Moriscos" (natives of Islamic Spain).

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Ireland in Color Photographs in the 1910s

A small collection of amazing color photographs of life in Ireland in 1913.

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22 Color Photos Capture Daily Life in Japan in the Late 19th Century

Enami Nobukuni (1859 - 1929) was the most prolific Japanese photographers of the late 19th - early 20th century. He was born in Edo (now Tokyo), in 1892 he moved to Yokohama, and opened his own studio T.Enami, where he worked until his death.

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Amazing Photographs of the Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge From 1933-1937

Construction began on January 5, 1933. The project cost more than $35 million. The Golden Gate Bridge construction project was carried out by the McClintic-Marshall Construction Co., a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corporation founded by Howard H. McClintic and Charles D. Marshall, both of Lehigh University.

Joseph Strauss remained head of the project, overseeing day-to-day construction and making some groundbreaking contributions. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he placed a brick from his alma mater's demolished McMicken Hall in the south anchorage before the concrete was poured. He innovated the use of movable safety netting beneath the construction site, which saved the lives of many otherwise-unprotected steelworkers. Of eleven men killed from falls during construction, ten were killed (when the bridge was near completion) when the net failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen. Nineteen others who were saved by the net over the course of construction became proud members of the (informal) Half Way to Hell Club.

The project was finished by April 1937, $1.3 million under budget.

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