The mother of former president Donald Trump was the youngest of ten children. Mary Anne was born in 1912 in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. She immigrated to the U.S. when she was just 18.

Mary Anne met a young real estate developer at a party when she was living with her sister in Queens. She married Fred Trump on April 5, 1936. The couple had five children, with Donald being the fourth.

Donald was named after Mary Anne’s grandfather, a Scottish fisherman lost at sea.

Ruth Handler debuted the first Barbie at the 1959 American Toy Fair in New York City. It wasn’t a hit since adults still thought children preferred baby dolls.

But Handler’s daughter, Barbara, preferred playing with adult paper dolls. Ruth would watch Barbara play house with them. Critics were soon proved wrong as young girls wanted to envision the grown-up life and it was Barbie that helped them do just that.

The story of this beautiful young French socialite in the 1870s shocked French society. Blanche attracted many suitors with her social status and beauty, but her choice in a man was a non-gentrified, nearly penniless lawyer who was way older than her.

Her mother, furious, locked Blanche into an attic hideout, keeping her prisoner for 26 years with the help of Blanche’s brother, Marcel.

Blanche fought starvation while living in the dark throughout her captivity. It was in 1901 when an anonymous letter sent to the Paris Attorney General alerted authorities to her situation resulting in her rescue.

On October 7, 1955, singer Ella Fitzgerald was arrested and put behind bars in Houston, Texas. All because she entertained an integrated crowd. Racial segregation had been outlawed at this point in time, but Houston was still practicing the old ways.

Tour manager Norman Granz had the signs in the theatre designating a “White” section and a “Negro” section taken down. The theatre owner was furious, calling the police.

Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Illinois Jacquet were all arrested on trumped-up charges. And all because Houston was not ready to let go of “Jim Crow” laws.

It was in 1968 when construction on the North Tower of the World Trade Center began. The towers were built using metals from U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel.

Hundreds of laborers came together to put up the structure, including these men. It was a dangerous job.

From its start to completion, 60 workers were killed. 6 died in 1970 when a propane tank exploded thanks to a truck.

The Granville-Paris Express came steaming into the station at the Gare Montparnasse terminus a little too quickly on October 22, 1895. The train’s conductor was trying to make up time to stay on schedule, but by the time the driver hit the brakes, it was too late.

The train overran the buffer stop, smashing through the back wall of the station resulting in this photo.

All of the passengers and crew survived, but a passerby on the street was killed when bricks fell on her. It took several days before the mess was cleaned up.

This dates back to 1504 making the Ostrich Egg Globe the first globe that includes the New World on it. The New World portion is highly inaccurate with North America depicted as a cluster of islands.

What this shows is that the globemaker had knowledge of the New World. The rounded halves of two different ostrich eggs were put together to form an orb.

A cool fact is that on the Ostrich Egg Globe, and on the Hunt-Lenox Globe (which was a prototype), there is a phrase that translates, “Here be dragons.”

Dracarys.

William S. Harley and his friend, Arthur Davidson, wanted to build motorized bicycles in 1901, so the first thing they did was to paint a sign saying “The Harley-Davidson Motor Company”.

They hung it above the door of their work shed. William and Arthur were 20 and 21 years old and were yet to begin working on a bike.

Both boys had no idea how to start so they persuaded Arthur Davidson’s older brother, Walter, a machinist, to help them. It took a few years for a working motorcycle to be built,with several more to make the company viable but it was worth the wait.

Amelia Earhart was once both a pilot and a deep sea diver. A visit to a resort on Rhode Island’s Brook Island allowed Earhart to see a submarine that was designed and built by inventor Simon Lake.

The submarine was designed to assist with search and rescue efforts around the region.

Earhart, being an adventure seeker, was more than keen to don the brass diving gear and explore the ocean’s floor. On her first attempt, she got cold feet just a few feet below the surface. She did dive the next day but decided it wasn’t her thing.

Beauty-conscious girls and young women in the 1940s were into reshaping their noses. These nose shapers were meant to add lift to the tip of one’s nose or to smooth out a bump.

In theory, they could work just like how ancient cultures would bind babies’ heads to elongate their skulls, or how other cultures put metal rings around women’s necks to make them longer.

But the nose shaper would have to be worn frequently when the girl was very young to alter how the nose grew.

Detroit-based Packard Motor Car Company was in business from 1899 to 1856. They were the top luxury car manufacturer of their day.

In 1941, Packard unveiled the 8-door tour bus with an open top, perfect for sightseeing or cruising the boulevard. The 8-door car gave way immediately to war efforts at the start of World War II. Packard stopped producing cars, retooling its factories to help the effort.

Engineers and drafters today can work behind a computer. But back before AutoCAD was released in 1982, drafters would work by hand using pencils, rulers, T-squares, protractors, and massive sheets of paper.

All that while laying on the floor. When AutoCAD was released, training centers emerged to teach drafters, architects, and engineers how to use the software. That saved countless pencils and bad backs among drafting professionals.

This photo was taken in 1977 when Fleetwood Mac released their best-received album, Rumours. It was the eleventh album and was aimed on capitalizing on the success of their 1975 album.

Members of Fleetwood Mac went through drug use and breakups, using their experiences to make the lyrics. The Rumours album contained hit songs such as “Go Your Own Way”, “Chain”, “Oh Daddy”, and “You Make Lovin’ Fun”.

Critics have called Rumours one of the greatest albums of all time.

These women were actually contestants in the Fall Frolic Pageant of 1920 in Atlantic City. It’s an event considered to be the forerunner of the Miss America Pageant.

Margaret Gorman was crowned the “Golden Mermaid” at the Fall Frolic, returning the following year when the event was officially called the Miss America Pageant. And there, Gorman took the crown as the first Miss America.

On January 25, 1948, this #19L locomotive’s brakes failed departing from the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. It crashed through a steel guardrail and concrete barrier before stopping.

The engine dangled about 20 feet above the street, causing quite a scene. The workers immediately disconnected the engine but it took a few days before it could be backed up and removed from its position.

American actress Grace Kelly starred in Rear Window with Wendell Corey and James Stewart. The thriller was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with film critics calling it the best movie of Hitchcock’s career.

The plot focuses on a wheelchair-bound man who spends his time looking out his apartment window, watching his neighbors. But his innocent spying takes a turn when he witnesses a murder.

Even in ancient times, dogs were man’s best friend as evident with this mosaic floor that dates back at least 2000 years. This piece was found in Alexandria, Egypt, and could be the earliest example of a dog motif in a mosaic floor.

Both the ancient Greeks and Romans used mosaic for flooring but they usually featured plants, geometric shapes, and astrological figures. This terrier though looks like he just knocked over a Greek vase. Poor dog.

Two popular comedians crossed paths at the studio, so they stopped for a photo op in costume. This was in 2000 when Jim Carrey was filming How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Eddie Murphy was shooting The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.

The Grinch posing with Professor Sherman Klump, aka Buddy Love. Good times.

The 1952 John Wayne-Maureen O’Hara movie, The Quiet Man, was based on a short story featured in the Saturday Evening Post. Frank S. Nugent took the 1933 short story and turned it into a screenplay for The Quiet Man.

Director John Ford cast Wayne and O’Hara in a story that follows a boxer who returns home to Ireland. The majority of the film was indeed shot on location, with beautiful shots of the verdant Irish countryside taking the background.

The early 1900’s featured thrill rides designed and built by amateurs who had no experience in amusement ride safety. They were fun, but lack of safety features meant that injuries were common.

A series of highly publicized deaths in the following decade saw regulations put in place to keep passengers safe. Seat belts, brakes and automatic shut-off mechanisms were installed. Extensive testing of amusement rides were made standard for the safety of riders.

Photography existed in the 1880s. But sitting for professional portraits at the time was a luxury not everyone could afford. People in the late 1800s probably only had their picture taken a few times in their entire lives. Nowadays, people can take as many selfies as they want the moment they wake up.

In the early days of photography, the box camera, like the one seen in this photo, was very popular. It was basically a cardboard box that had a lens at one end.

Film was affixed to the inside, on the wall opposite the lens. In 1888, the Kodak company released the first box camera, which soon became the standard box camera mimicked by other manufacturers.

Kodak sold theirs preloaded with film so customers could send the entire camera back to Kodak where they would develop the film then reload film into the camera before returning it to the customer.

The number of cars in the early 1910s and 1920s began to grow, so it was only a matter of time before there was a spike in automobile accidents. This colorized photo from 1921 shows how they still had a lot to learn about automotive safety.

Cars didn’t have seatbelts or airbags. There were no anti-lock brakes or crash detection cameras either. Car insurance was a thing but wasn’t mandatory for drivers to get one. Few places had stop signs or traffic signals so drivers in the 1920s just drove and drove.

At least they didn’t have cellphones.

Photographer Janos Stekovics was taken by the rugged strength of the Lukacs twins of Hungary. He shot a series of photographs of the brothers, Janos and Istvan, in the 1980s which he compiled in a book.

The humble lives of these two confirmed bachelors were documented in the book, with the twins in their golden years when they were photographed. They lived their whole lives in a rural farmhouse without electricity or running water. The twins worked ten hours or so a day taking care of their animals and growing produce in their gardens.

The Ingalls family moved around a lot. The setting for the famous TV show was the prairie town of Walnut Grove, but in the Little House book series, the family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas to South Dakota.

The real family also found themselves in Iowa and Minnesota, before finally settling down in DeSmet, South Dakota, where they had a homestead. Then later on, the Ingalls moved to a house in town with daughter, Mary, who never married.

John Wooden was in his mid-50s when he recruited 18-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Wooden became Jabbar’s mentor, guiding him through college and professional basketball where he became a legend.

In return, Abdul-Jabber passed on to Wooden some important life lessons resulting in the two remaining close friends until Wooden’s death at the age of 99.

A creative Polish innovator in Poland thought the tree was sturdy and healthy enough so he made a room in it, complete with a working door and a window to let in lots of natural light. There is a solid floor too!

Henry Fonda and James Stewart appeared in four movies together. On Our Merry Way, How the West Was Won, Firecreek, and The Cheyenne Social Club. These two also shared the stage in plays and musicals, admiring each other’s talents and just being really good friends.

Here’s a glimpse of their friendship. After a night party, Fonda challenged Stewart to play his accordion in the middle of Times Square to see if anyone would stop and listen.

It was a long lasting marriage full of love for singer Pearl Bailey and her husband, Louis Bellson. Upon her death, Bellson said that he lost his best friend and soul mate.

But they almost didn’t get married. Bellson was a white trombone player and the first musician to play in Duke Ellington’s band. That’s where he met Pearl Bailey, and it was love at first sight.

In the 1950s, interracial marriages were frowned upon. Bellman’s father was very outspoken, but it didn’t stop Bellson flying to London to marry Bailey in November of 1952.

Here’s Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz with Bonita Granville. Not a familiar name but Granville spent almost all her life working in Hollywood, starting her career at the age of three.

She appeared in Westward Passage in 1932 and These Three in 1936. She was 14 in These Three, earning an Oscar nomination for her work on the film.

In the 1940s, Granville also starred as teen detective Nancy Drew. When Bonita married Jack Wrather, she and her husband became producers on the TV series, Lassie.

Legends of the Pony Express are often synonymous with the Old West. But the quick-delivery service only operated for about a year. One of the reasons it was short-lived was because it was difficult to get Pony Express riders.

This job posting says it all. They looked for expendable teen boys with no families to worry and grieve over them. Strong, resilient, ready to die kids.

It’s very common for pet owners to dress up their pets in silly costumes before taking photos and posting them online. Especially during those famous holidays!

But in the 1950s, dogs weren’t as spoiled and exposed for everyone to see. That’s why this photo is so remarkable. His owner took the time to dress him up and position him in a chair like a man with cat on his lap.

This ice delivery man spent a lot of time in refrigerated freezers and trucks since few homes had refrigerators back in the day. Folks needed iceboxes to keep their food from spoiling, but since the ice would melt over time, ice delivery services brought chunks of ice to families every week.

No one knows why this guy is showing off his swagger, but it has become a really cool photo.