The tayu or oiran Komurasaki (high ranking courtesan) of the Yoshiwara district, ca. 1880s [564 x 812]
Palestinian gypsy together with his monkey pet. British palestine 1920s [600 x 472]
Henry Rollins & Nick Cave babysitting, 1992 (919x609)
Russian and Austro-Hungarian officers during the ceasefire on the Eastern Front, 1917. [720X953]
Early color photograph (autochrome) taken on January 2, 1909 of an aeronautical exhibition in the Grand Palais in Paris. Originally taken by Léon Gimpel and digitally enhanced [832 x 1160]
Before the beard: ZZ Top played at a Knights of Columbus Hall on old U.S. 90, a February 1970 gig booked by Beaumont radio personality Al Caldwell of KLVI, who would later also broadcast the band’s first recordings [900x600].
Long before color-sensitive film was invented, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky took 3 individual black and white photos, each with a filter (red, blue and green) to create high quality photos in full color. Ca 1914. [1080x974]
Portrait of Soviet Medic Ekaterina Rumyansova (Екатерина Румянцева), date unknown [colorization] [1070x 400]
Mrs. Eileen Frayne equips her children with surgical masks to protect themselves from London smog, due to vivid memories of "the Great Smog of London, or Great Smog" of 1952 that killed thousands of people, 1953. [1024x765]
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Japanese Prisoners of War at Guam, with bowed heads after hearing Emperor Hirohito announce Japan’s unconditional surrender, 1945 (578x567)
Two American Coast Guardsmen pay their respects to their comrade who was killed in action near the Ryukyu Islands, 1945 (502x616)
1884: 70 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Joseph and Mary Tape filed suit against a San Francisco school principal and the city's board of education for denying their American-born 8 year-old daughter Mamie an education due to her Chinese heritage. They won. [700X1023]
Mug shot of Nicolae Ceauşescu, under arrest by the Târgovişte, Romania Police, in 1936.[1074X1656]
19 year old Norma Jeane Dougherty (soon to be known as Marilyn Monroe) working at a WWII Radioplane Munitions Factory in 1945 [1040x1254]
A daguerreotype portrait of the aged Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington taken in 1844. Most well known for leading the British against Napoleon during the Battle of Waterloo. [750x961]
Picture of Igbo festival pre colonial Nigeria. 1900-1910
GI ponders his immediate future near the front line of the Hürtgen Forest, December, 1944. [500x395]
Playboy models at Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1972 (960 x 1270).
Chinese-American war worker in Los Angeles wore a handwritten sign in his back to avoid being mistaken for Japanese 1942. [600 x 472]
Search and destroy mission conducted by an infantry platoon of Troop B, 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division three kilometers west of Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province, 4/24/1967; (US Signal Corps Photo) [650x648]
A photo of a lady with a pre colonial igbo hair style. 1900-1910
Point Mugu, California - a porpoise is trained with underwater equipment for the US Navy. June 20, 1968. 5586x3741px, 11MB
Anarchist Luigi Lucheni,killer of Empress Elisabeth of Austria,in 1898.Smiling after a first interrogation on the assassination [915x1220]
Three Jewish children on their way to Palestine after being liberated from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The girl on the left is from Poland, the boy in the center from Latvia, and the girl on the right from Hungary, 1945 (535x649)
Nazi traitor Vidkun Quisling lining up with German Nazi officers in front of the Norwegian royal palace April 1940. Check out the Game-changing history pod for more [1544x586]