A German soldier returns home only to find his family no longer there. Frankfurt, 1946 (Photo by Tony Vaccaro) [500 x 722]
On this day in 1940, Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp opened in Nazi-controlled Poland with Polish POWs. Main entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centre. Photograph was taken sometime after the liberation of the camp in January 1945. Poland, date uncertain. [512x355]
Today marks the 94th birth anniversary of the revolutionary and the theoretician and tactician of Guerrilla warfare, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, more popularly known by his byname 'Che'. [In picture] Celia de la Serna holding her son, born on 14 June, 1928 in Rosario [900x450]
FDR visits a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, 1933. In 9 years, 3 million poor young men joined the CCC. They were fed, housed, and paid a wage that was mostly sent to their families. Their efforts improved public land to this day. [1022 x 575]
Princess Ka’iulani in San Francisco on her way home to Hawaii, 1897 [588 x 699]
Sumo wrestling. Yokohama - Japan, 1887 [1427 x 1113]
Statues of Stalin being removed from Budapest, Hungary, 1990. (741x495)
A photo by Hans Namuth from the Estremadura front during the Spanish Civil War, Sep. 1936 [640 x 879]
Fool Thunder and his family, Hunkpapa Lakota, 1880. [599x651]
The take off of the first Concorde prototype; Toulouse, France, March 2nd 1969 [1300x866]
A Universal Carrier crew of the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to #Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in the Netherlands on September 22, 1944. [1280x1281]
Toffs and Toughs - A famous photo taken by Jimmy Sime at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1937 illustrating the class divide in Britain [1600x1209]
1983: Indianapolis Mayor Bill Hudnut cools off at 29th & Talbot Park for a city-sponsored "shower party". Hudnut ordered fire hydrants turned on in neighborhoods without public swimming pools to help residents beat the heat. [500X343]
Old Lithuanian woman with a bundle of belonging she brought from Europe as she patiently waits for custom inspector upon her arrival in America (New York 1948) [2100x2100]
Antartica, 1915: The 'Endurance' being slowly crushed by ice while it’s crew look on helpless. (960x640)
28th August 1965: Revolutionary leader Che Guevara attending a United Nations Trade Conference at Geneva. [986x721]
Chinese railroad workers pose during a break on the Transcontinental Railroad, circa 1869. (529x500)
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the new action thriller Ambulance from Michael Bay, streaming now on Peacock.
Axis forces recovering a French Somua MCG half-track artillery track and recovery vehicle: from the habour of Lussinpiccolo, Lošinj island, western part of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska) and Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral, on November 14th, 1943. [800 x 536]
A family sitting on their porch in Perrysvllie, Indiana, circa 1900-1910. These porch scenes are terrific. From my glass negative collection. (800x640)
Afghan resistance fighters return to a village destroyed by Soviet forces, 1986 [768 x 538 px]
Norwegian Nazi leader Vidkun Quisling (center) at a Nazi party event in Norway, 1941. Quisling was tried and executed after the war for treason. [1250x1250].
This child’s photo was taken circa 1900-1920, possibly in Michigan. This child is having fun with a cart of flowers as the mother looks on. From my glass negative collection. (640x800)
The alleged photo of Crazy Horse taken in 1877. If this is the Oglala warrior, the picture would have been taken between May & September 1877. While unlikely we would be willing to pose for the American approx. a year after Little Bighorn, it's possible we are looking at him here. (800x600) c.1877
A five-year-old King Michael I taking the oath after the death of his grandfather, King Ferdinand I, 1927. [1344x1912]
Women sewing American Flags in Brooklyn, New York City on July 24, 1940. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White. [500x654]
