American actor Fred Astaire dances on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London with his sister and dance partner, Adele.

Alfred Hitchcock plays with his grandchildren in the snow in 1960.

A five megabyte disc sent by IBM in 1956.

People cross an improvised bridge made out of chairs during a flood in Paris in 1924.

Canadian dancer Christina Dukette dressed up in an Egyptian costume, in March 1923.

Audrey Hepburn goes shopping with her new pet, a deer, in 1985.

Students at the University of Princeton after a snowball fight in 1893.

Two men smoke on top of the RCA construction in 1932.

American baseball player, George Herman Ruth, known as 'Babe' Ruth, shows a child how to hold a bat in the Yankees stadium.

World heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey, falls from the ring after a blow from Argentinean heavyweight, Luis Angel Firpo, during a match in Polo Grounds, New York, on 14th September 1923.

With Alain Delon around, Mick Jagger is a little left out.

Nikola Tesla sits in his laboratory with a 'magnifying transmitter'.

The intact seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen, in 1922. It was left untouched for 3245 years.

Women pose for a photo in Chiswick Baths, London, May 1920.

Directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg play with water pistols on set in Sri Lanka, in 1983.

British prime minister, Winston Churchill, lights a cigar.

Three sisters, Elizabeth, Helen and Margaret Hay, photograph the stars Douglas Fairbanks Senior and Charlie Chaplin, in September 1922.

English writer HG Wells with English filmmaker and actor Charlie Chaplin in the offices of the film production company, Stoll Pictures in London, 1921. They were getting ready to watch a screening of a new film, 'Kipps', based on a novel by Wells.

On the "Whirl of the World" in the fairground in the Exhibition at Wembley, in August 1924.

1925: Members of the 'Younger Set' of Baltimore show off the trend for painting the faces of their best friends on their knees.

British featherweight boxer Ben Callicot trains ahead of a match with Ernie Rice, on Abril 11 1921.

The literary genius, Hemingway, in prison after one of his parties.

Dior models arrive in Russia in 1956

This photo taken from a building in New York shows how fashionable these hats were in 1939.

Salvador Dali taking a walk in the street with his pet, in 1969.

Men see a bottle of Coca Cola for the first time in France, in 1950.