Past Preserved

In August 1993, then-Senator Joe Biden held up a TEC-9 during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on assault weapons and gun violence.

Frederick Douglass's 1881 tribute to his late friend John Brown.

Kodachrome shot of a woman working as a welder in a shipyard during WWII, 1943.

Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911

A tragic photo from 1954. A couple discovers that their almost two year old child has been swept out to sea by a wave. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955

SpongeBob backgrounds painted by hand in the early 2000s.

1978: Experimental U.S. Army uniforms and protective equipment developed during the Cold War.

No one painted trees like Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin.

Ancient Greek gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant, ca. 300 BCE, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum

Ulysses S. Grant's bottle of c*caine water, used to ease the pain of his throat cancer, still sits where he died in 1885. It has reportedly been unopened ever since.

1917: The rusting remains of an Ottoman train destroyed during the Arab Revolt still lie abandoned in the Arabian Desert more than a century later.

In the 1830s, Americans were sold tomato ketchup as medicine, with claims It could treat several illnesses.

A Roman marble sculpture of four puppies, all curled up asleep together. Unearthed from the ruins of the House of the Faun in Pompeii, 1st century BCE, now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.

In 1965, Johnny Cash's first wife, Vivian Liberto, became the target of a white supremacist hate campaign after photographs led people to believe she was Black.

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Patrick Stewart reviews an upcoming script while in costume as Locutus of Borg, 1990.

Portraits of the Last Traditionally Tattooed Maori Women before the Ta Moko Tattoos were Outlawed by British Colonialists,

Before he was a Hollywood star, Samuel L. Jackson was a civil rights activist. In 1969, he was expelled from college after a two-day "lock-in" where he held the school's board of trustees— including Martin Luther King Sr.—hostage to demand changes to the university's curriculum.

In 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo, soldiers reportedly looted the battlefield for teeth, which were later used to make dentures.