Vladimir Lenin’s last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923

The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910

The Cross Was Not Heavy Enough by John Heartfield, 1933

This is what the Titanic’s first class menu looked like the day it sunk (1912).

The temporary grave of Theodore Roosevelt in Normandy, soon after his death, July 1944