DescriptionTwo men posing outside a small tourist reception office advertising camel safaris and excursions in Dahab, Sinai, when the Red Sea town was still a small backpacker and Bedouin tourism hub.
DescriptionClerical workers processing incoming mail and counting cash sent by home gardeners ordering vegetable seeds during the World War II 'Victory Gardens' campaign at a distribution center in Philadelphia, where home gardeners supported the war effort by growing produce to supplement the nation's food supply.
LicenseArthur S. Siegel, No copyright restrictions, via Library of Congress
DescriptionJapanese labor activists carrying a model airplane mocking the Grumman and Lockheed bribery scandals during a May Day parade near Tokyo's Harajuku Station. The multi-million-dollar political scandals involved senior Japanese government officials receiving kickbacks from U.S. aerospace companies to influence military and commercial aircraft purchases.
DescriptionA street scene in Ketchikan, Alaska, during the early 60s. Founded in 1885 as a salmon cannery site, the city became known as the 'Salmon Capital of the World,' with its canneries processing tens of millions of salmon annually during the peak of Alaska's commercial fishing industry.