The image of Vincent van Gogh, reconstructed from photographs and self-portraits of the artist by Dutch photographer Bas Uterwijk

A British officer in a mobile hammock. Sierra Leone, 1920.

The signature recipe of an American restaurant where George Crum worked in 1853 was French fries.

Drinking a bottle of Scotch in a pub. Scotland, 1913.

The silk vest of a nobleman. China, mid-19th century.

2.5 million spectators at Jean-Michel Jarre's concert on Bastille Day, Paris, 1991.

A photo of a bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Cairo, 1912.

Policemen drag out an opponent of nuclear weapons development from a secret military site. Norfolk, 1958.

A civil defense worker and a woman with her children on Southend he Mercy Street in London during an air raid. United Kingdom, 1940.