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CHRONOLOGY
History, in moments.
A visual timeline connecting photographs to the events, technologies and places around them. The archive is ordered chronologically so each image can be understood in time.
1888
Architecture
The Eiffel Tower Under Construction
Paris watches a new kind of engineering rise into the skyline.
Read story →c. 1900
14 April 1900
Cities
Paris, 1900
The Exposition Universelle opens a window onto a confident modern city.
Read story →15 April 1900
Cities
New York on Easter Sunday
Fifth Avenue shows a city on the edge of its skyscraper age.
Read story →17 December 1903
9 April 1912
Maritime history
Titanic at Southampton
Titanic is photographed days before its maiden voyage.
Read story →6 May 1937
Aviation
The Hindenburg Disaster
A catastrophic landing becomes one of the century’s defining photographs.
Read story →1940
War & Peace
London During the Blitz
Photographs document a city living through sustained bombing.
Read story →20 July 1969