OVER 24000 LANTERN SLIDE PHOTOGRAPHS IN ONE ARCHIVE. people, places and moments that history nearly lost.

THE ARCHIVE

OUR ARCHIVE

These aren't just the photographs that ended up in history books.

They're the ones taken on an ordinary Tuesday — a market day in colonial-era East Africa, a coal miner surfacing after a shift, children playing in a street that no longer exists.

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