This 1899 photo by diver and photography pioneer Louis Boutan. The first ever underwater photograph @facethenation

Shulman's Market at the corner of N & Union Streets in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, with a 1931 Chevrolet car parked in front @facethenation

🍪 The muffin delivery man, 1900s. Some of England’s first street food was sold by fellows like this, who had roam the streets, ringing a bell 🛎 and carrying their wares on their head @facethenation

William Harley and Walter Davidson, the founders of the Harley Davidson Motor Company, 1910 🏍 @facethenation

Railway to the Shāh Abdol Azīm Shrine, near Tehran, 1886 @facethenation

Indian troops at a gas mask drill during World War I, 1918 @facethenation

Persian cossack brigade in Tabriz. Russia invades northern Persia under the pretext of protecting her subjects and nation interests on March 26, 1909 @facethenation

Happy french girl and her cat ☺️🐈, 1959 @facethenation

Concert by radio in Leipzig, 1923 @facethenation

Henri Fabre became the first person to successfully pilot a seaplane over water on March 28, 1910 @facethenation

On March 29, 1881, snowdrifts in Minnesota were higher than locomotive @facethenation

Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Bearcats pulls in the rebound against the Kansas State University Wildcats, 1958 @facethenation

Oscar Robertson’s 🏀 split kick rebound

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Crowds enjoying the outdoors at the beach in Seabreeze, Daytona in 1904 @facethenation

One of the first pictures ever taken of the Sun. Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau, April 2, 1845.

More than 170 years ago, their seemingly simple black and white photo was remarkable for depicting our sun not as an overwhelming, ungraspable celestial body, but as another star in the sky. Visible on its surface are sunspots - areas of intense magnetic activity that are also impossible to see with the naked eye.

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Sunlight streams through the windows in the concourse at Grand Central Terminal in New York City in 1954 @facethenation