Photograph entitled ‘Wait for Me, Daddy’. It shows a child running to his father, a Canadian soldier, before being deployed during The Second World War. Behind you can see his mother. October 1, 1940.

This is how a man and wife slept in 1947. Simmons Beautyrest with prewar quality!

Portrait of Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim 1910. Refusing to enter a lifeboat, he reportedly asked a steward to inform his family ‘that I played the game straight to the end and that no women was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward’ (1437 x 1600)

A dying man in Buchenwald was given a cigarette by an American soldier during liberation, Germany 1945.

Hope-Less (Chappate, 2009)