A vintage postcard showing the Citadel of Herat in 1960s Afghanistan

A smiling man is pictured frying Jilabee, a sweet dessert, on an outdoor fire, with children gathered around

Abandoned French machinery on the bank of Panama Canal near Cristobal lies unused following the arrest of Ferdinand de Lesseps

A man receives a straight razor shave at the Hotel de Gink barber in 1910

A lookout man on the peak of Black Butte using heliograph in California in July 1912

A Jewish pupil in a cap poses on his way to classes circa 1910

A Japanese bomb drops on brick houses in Chapei along which American and British troops are on defence duty during the Second Sino-Japanese War, on October 14, 1937.

A group of American engineers who worked on the Panama Canal John R. Freeman, Frederic P. Stearns and James D. Schuyler, Arthur P. Davis, Henry A. Allen, Isham Randolph and Allen Hazen

A Flemish demonstrator, one of thousands who gathered for a march through Brussels to protest against what the Flemings call Oct 14, 1962

A fire control administrative assistant and former Yacolt Burn project forester looks out over the sweeping panorama of devastation where trees will someday replace snags.

A Dodge Powerwagon Fire truck at theThe Waterman Guard Station in San Bernardino National Forest, Calif.

In 1872, a nightly summer ritual took place from the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Staff at the old Glacier Point Hotel create large fires and burn them down to piles of red-hot embers.

The RMS Titanic is pictured in Belfast before it made its way to Southampton ahead of its maiden voyage in April 1912

Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm, Oklahoma, April 1936 

Long before the days of high-performance equipment, basic wooden skis and poles were the norm (pictured Mount Norquay in 1956)