Swordmaker in Damascus, Syria (c.1900)

In 1990 Canada's Minister of Justice, Kim Campbell posed for a photo bare-shouldered and holding her robes in front of herself. It caused a minor scandal, but did not stop her party from choosing her as leader in 1993, making her Canada's first, and to date only, female prime minister.

A convoy of ships assembling in the Bedford Basin of Halifax Harbour during WWII (c.1941)

A young Oglala girl sitting in front of a tipi, with a puppy beside her, probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation (1891)

Members of the Toronto Maple Leafs march through a trench in a pre-war military training session (1939)

Dummy WWII coastal battery near Blackhead, Newfoundland

Heavy clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle during the Dust Bowl (1936)