Rare Photos From History That Will Puzzle You

Published on December 11, 2017
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Fearless In The Sky

We’ve all seen the breathtaking photo that photographer Charles Ebbets took from this exact position. The photo of the workers eating their lunch on the scaffolding of the 69th floor of the Chrysler Building during construction is famous, but this picture isn’t. Here is the daredevil photographer positioning himself for an award-winning historical shot.

Fearless In The Sky

Fearless In The Sky

Sax Me Up

No matter what racist rivalry was going on at the time, when blues artist and saxophonist Big Jay McNeely started playing, everyone’s hearts started racing. Robert Willoughby managed to get this electric moment in LA in 1953 at the Olympic Auditorium.

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Sax Me Up

Sax Me Up