Dried and shrivelled corpses, some fully clothed and some in coffins, line the wall of a vault of the Pantheon Cemetery on the summit of Cerro del Trozado in Mexico. They were removed from the crypts because of non-payment of cemetery fees. The hot dry air stopped the bodies from rotting. Most of them were placed here between the turn of the century and WW I. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955...
Manuela Vargas at a dress rehearsal for [The Tigress of the Flamenco] given by her company at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. (Photo by Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Getty Images). 4th November 1964...
Actress Athene Seyler attempts to contort her body, in a scene from the show, [Skin Deep]. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). Circa 1928...
Burdened with a shawl full of her belongings, a woman stops for a rest on the road between Julaca and Puno in Peru. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955...
A policeman stands by a burning car, set alight during a communist march in the East End of London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1936...
[Gustav Vigeland (11 April 1869 – 12 March 1943) was a Norwegian sculptor. Gustav Vigeland occupies a special position among Norwegian sculptors, both in the power of his creative imagination and in his productivity. He is most associated with Vigeland Sculpture Park (Vigelandsanlegget) in Oslo]. – Wikipedia
Photo: Sculpture [Masculine Love] in the Adolf Gustav Vigeland Park, formerly Frogner Park, Oslo. The park contains almost 200 sculptures representing different stages in a human life. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images). 30th April 1949...
Two elderly men smoking pipes of opium on a terrace in Korea. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images). August 1950...
Winner of the Sandow bodybuilding competition, Mr. Murray. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images). Circa 1905...
A British policewoman chasing after a group of naked street boys by the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London. (Photo by Reg Speller/Getty Images). 1926...
Two children jumping through a water hydrants shower on a New York street. They have come from a neighbouring co-educational playgroup organised by the citys Police Department. (Photo by Orlando/Getty Images). 1950...