Notices by History Defined (historydefined@mastodonapp.uk)

Taking airline reservations before computers, 1945. Photograph from the SFO Museum Collection.

Late 1940s Japan

A horse-drawn omnibus from the 1890s. Two or three horses would pull them. Companies that ran them like London Omnibus had stables around the city to switch them out periodically.

Alfred Hitchcock impersonating Ringo Starr, 1964.

A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958 by Berenice Abbott.