Mashable: More from Retronaut

MORE FROM RETRONAUT

1976-1978: CBGB's House Photographer

 

1938: JFK Swims for Harvard

 

1907-1915: Russia Before the Revolution, in Color

1964: Cassius Clay vs. The Beatles

 

19th Century Artist Predicted Whale-Shaped Flying Cars by 2000

 

How the Soviet Union Honored the Dogs That Conquered Space

After the Quake: The Earliest Known Color Photographs of San Francisco

 

Pvt. Elvis Presley. In His Underwear.

 

Victorians Loved Photobooth Sessions Before They Were Cool

Yes, That's Just the Pet Lion in the Swimming Pool

 

Behind a Mask: Remembering History's Deadliest Epidemic

 

Tips for Single Women, Circa 1938

Calling All Black Cats: The Search for Hollywood's Meanest Feline

 

Preparing for Battle, Badass World War I Pilots Said 'Cheese'

 

To Hide From WWII Bombs, London Goes Dark

The Kiss, 1955: James Dean and Ursula Andress Go Out on a Date

 

1949: Picasso Paints in Light

 

Studio 54: The Star-Magnet of the 1970s

These Children Are Quite Literally The Stuff of Nightmares

 

Stanley Kubrick's High-Contrast Images of Chicago in 1949

 

The Evolution of Women's Workwear Through the Decades

These Vintage Halloween Costumes Will Scare the Sheet Out of You

 

The Secret Message in Abraham Lincoln's Pocket Watch

 

Living With an Ocelot. In a Manhattan Apartment.

The only surviving images of veterans of the Napoleonic Wars

 

Vintage Halloween Cards From a Century Ago

 

Victorians were some of the first victims of candid photography

The coded world of Russian prison tattoos

 

'Doctor Who's' scariest monsters were made of plywood and glue

 

1930s British portraiture by renowned photographer Edwin Smith

What Halloween looked like in 1980s New York City

 

Proof that teens were painfully awkward even in the 1960s

 

When WWI soliders weren't sharing their armor, they were stealing it

The first photograph of a human being

 

14 distorted photos of celebrities as you've never seen them

 

Before the Berlin Wall, people escaped through a wire fence

The first selfie ever was taken in 1839

 

The men who built the Berlin Wall

 

1890: Victorian burlesque dancers and their elaborate costumes

How the world celebrated the first Armistice Day, in 1918

 

1910, Paris: Some of the world's first street style photography

 

What we wore to Woodstock

Raving to the sounds of acid through the early '90s

 

Don't try this at home: 1930s daredevils attached rockets to bicycles

 

It's hard enough to balance a cocktail, let alone on ice skates

NASA taught astronauts about zero gravity using cats

 

1959: Seville's extraordinary Holy Week festival, celebrated since 1350 A.D.

 

Remembering the Detroit Riots of 1967

The Graf Zeppelin in 1929: World's first commercial airline left onlookers in complete awe

 

Stunning photos of 18-year-old Brigitte Bardot dancing on a roof

 

1964: The Japanese version of the Beatles

What American shopping malls looked like in 1989

 

The radio hat was basically the geekiest gift of 1949

 

1946: Trick mirror photographs people popping zits, picking noses