U.S. Marines in Peiping, China readies for deployment to lift the siege in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, c. June 1900 [1000 x 718]
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Queen Elizabeth II’s state visit to Switzerland in 1980. Accompanied by Federal President Georges-André Chevallaz and greeted by the guard of honour at Zurich-Kloten Airport. Photo: Swiss National Museum / ASL [1200x900]
Daredevil Evel Knievel Crashes at Wembley Stadium - London, England, UK - May 26, 1975 [1200x841]
A dance class on a Polish beach in 1930. [770 x 483]
Paul Revere Sullivan (left) and Theodore Roosevelt Sullivan wave flags at the George Washington statue in front of the sub-treasury building (Wall Street) on the 128th anniversary of Washington's death. NYC, December 15, 1927. [1208x2048]
Underbelly of Mikoyan MIG-29A 'Fulcrum' multirole jet aircraft from the Air Forces of the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic (Luftstreitkräfte der Nationalen Volksarmee - LsK) based out of Preschen Airfield, East Germany, c. 1988 - 1989. [900 x 600]
East German woman as she was at an outdoor restaurant, in East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) capital city of the German Democratic Republic (GDR - Deutsche Demokratische Republik), c. 1980s. [862 x 580]
Strikers of 'The Great Sit-Down Strike' hanging effigies from the windows of Fisher Body Plant No.2 of the Chevroley No.1 factory in Flint, Michigan. 1937. (776 x 600)..
Curley, Crow Nation, 1883. Photo by Frank Jay Haynes. Source - Montana Historical Society. [702x1038]
Two young Serb volunteers and a little girl pose for a camera during the Yugoslav Wars. Croatia, 1992. (931x775)
Polar explorer Roald Amundsen with the polar bear cub "Marie" under his arm (Ayon Island, Russia 1920) [4600x3417]
A Bosnian fighter replaces the head on a tailor’s dummy set up to attract sniper fire from Serb gunmen near Sarajevo railway station, 1994 (645x943)
Maximilian Kolbe with a gift from young seminarians. He was arrested for hiding Jews and was sent to Auschwitz. After 3 escaped, the SS chose 10 to starve. Kolbe was not chosen, but chose to take the place of a man with a family. He led prayers with the 9 others until he died. (747, 1168) (1930s)
A woman forcibly being evicted from her home so that they could build the Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium on the land (1959). [758X600]
The bad girls of New Mexico, 1942 [768x533]
Penitentes Crucifixion Ritual (San Mateo, NM, 1888) Photo by Charles Lummis [964 x 600]
Memorial Day 1945: French teen Helene Chapelle and her mother kneel at the grave of James Simonian who was killed during the Normandy invasion. She is reading a letter from Simonian’s mother who asked that it be read at her son’s grave. La Cambe Cemetery, France. [512x425]
I believe this is somewhere in rural Virginia. From the women’s clothing it looks like it was taken in the 1910-1920s. What a fantastic house. I hope it still exists. (800x640)
Future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (far right) in a Boer prison camp. He was captured by the Boers after his train was ambushed in November 1899. He subsequently escaped in December 1899. [1100x1100].
Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley on the set of Viva Las Vegas in 1964. [521x680]
[1050x656] Muhammad Ali sparring with two teenagers during a promotional tour of New Zealand, 1979
The remnants of the French first army are granted the honours of war at Lille in 1940 after a desperate resistance which allowed at least 100,000 men to evacuate from Dunkirk [3002×1994]
British hairstylist Vidal Sassoon giving Mia Farrow the pixie cut that she would wear in Rosemary's Baby, 1967. [988 x 1024]
Winston Churchill, 1950s. Photo: 3050 x 4084 - Colorized by me.
Twin tornadoes near Dunlap, Indiana during the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, April 11, 1965 [1191x6700] (Colourized)