A Pacific Southwest Airline flight attendant assisting a flyer in her standard uniform in 1973. Yup, the boots and belt are part of the uniform. The company eventually merged into other airlines and eventually was bought by American Airlines.

Persian shepherds from Northern Iran wearing their traditional heavy woolen mantles as they get ready to shear sheep in 1952.

FMLN fighters pose for a picture during the El Salvadorian Civil War in 1982. Almost everyone in this picture is a teenager.

A model puts on her Bullet Bra and Girdle as part of a 4 picture set with instructional arrows to advertise how to properly put on the lingerie. This was marketed in magazines in the US in 1942.

A white active soldier sent in to quell the race riots in Chicago, US in 1919 is confronted by a black former WWI soldier. The riots lasted a week and left 38 people dead (23 black and 15 white), and around 500 more injured as the city was completely divided. Thousands of homes were burned, mostly of black families, and tons of cars and shops destroyed. Former army members were deputized but it took over 4 days for the mayor to finally call in the national guard to put down the rioting.

Police with batons charge around 3,000 unemployed workers who were marching down the city center of Bristol, UK, as part of The Old Market Riot in 1932. According to reports, the police decided to attack using force against a peaceful gathering to disperse the crowd.

2 Medical students (middle, left) ask questions as their medical professor (right) shows them a plaster cast of part of the human body at the Faculty of Medicine in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1962.

Workers take a break during the final stages of construction of the Panama Canal in 1913. The following year it would be completed. The French started the project, but ended up having 22,000 workers die due to diseases primarily. They even halted work numerous time since they had so few healthy workers. Eventually the US took over and finished the project. They too had issues, and lost 12,000 workers to disease and accidents. As amazing an engineering marvel it still is, and how much it helps shipping, the unsanitary conditions that cost 34,000 workers their lives are unparalleled.

A man greets his brother after arriving in East Berlin, Germany in 1963. This was 2 years after the Berlin Wall was erected, dividing the city. For the holiday season, East Germany allowed West Germans to obtain a 1 day pass to visit family members. It was one of the only times anyone was allowed to cross freely before the wall was torn down in 1989.

This woman has been put in a sealed box with 1 small hole, no food and no water, for the punishment of adultery in Mongolia in 1913. The sentence is actually death. The hole is part of the design, allowing the condemned to see the freedom they have been denied. This woman, and many like her, died this way and for many years Mongolia was known for some harsh, brutal, and humiliating punishments up until only the last half century.

An Armenian mother and her daughter come across a fallen child on their way to Aleppo, Syria in 1915. This was during the Armenian Genocide, which claimed up to 1.5 million Armenians their lives. Some sources would sadly say this child is already dead, and that this was a common site even so close to safety as this family was.

Children play in what is left of a US helicopter shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia in 1993. US soldiers went into the city to capture high profile targets, only to have the city militia cut them off and a battle ensue. 2 helicopters were shot down, 19 US soldiers were killed, 2 coalition forces members were also killed, with another 82 total wounded. On the Somali side, anywhere from 300-500 were killed, and anywhere from 500-1000 were wounded. The excellent film Black Hawk Down (2001) depicts this battle.

A British paratrooper comforts a young girl who was wounded by an IRA bombing in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972. The bomb exploded in a busy street, killing 7 people and wounding 148. The IRA did numerous bombings like these in the early 1970s as it went on the offensive, a time known as "The Troubles". Bombing targets were military or political locations, but also markets and economic centers in Northern Ireland and England, which resulted in many civilians deaths over the years. This lasted on and off until a cease fire was finally agreed upon in 1997.

A mother and her 3 children take cover during a Soviet air raid in Finland during the Winter War in 1939. The Soviets invaded Finland, trying to secure territory changes. The near 5 month war was a huge surprise to the Soviets as the vastly outnumbered Fins held them off with the help of heavy snow, snipers, and strong guerilla tactics. This war also helped convince the Nazi's to eventually attack the Soviets, knowing they were unprepared for such a war. Finland also allied itself with the Axis powers because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

10 Year old Edith Houghton posing for a picture wearing her Philadelphia Bobbies baseball uniform to help promote a girls professional baseball league in 1922. You read that right. The remarkable Houghton not only was on a professional girls baseball team at just 10 years old but she was also their best player. She also joined the Navy, served in WWII, and was the first female scout for MLB.

A father has a blank stare as he looks at a hand and foot that has been cut off one of his children as punishment for not meeting a quota of goods in the Belgian colony of the Congo in 1904. The tribesmen were basically slaves, working for no wages, to meet high demands, and were punished with lost limbs of themselves or family members for not meeting quotas. It was a brutal and dark time in Belgian and Congolese history.

Armed Islamic extremists open fire and assassinate Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981. The 4 gunman killed 11 people total. 1 gunman was killed, 3 captured and executed. Sadat was a western ally, and his death was a major blow for the west and their influence in the middle east at the time.

2 Thai women sporting the beehive hairdo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1963.

Female members of the Hells Angels Gang in LA, USA in 1973.

Photographer Bruce Davidson snaps this picture of an undercover police officer arresting a mugger who just tried to mug Bruce on a NYC, NY, US subway in 1985. The mugger is armed, hence the officers gun pointed at his head.