Nov
26
Rare Photo of the Atomic Cloud Over Nagasaki in 1945
This is believed to be the earliest photograph from the ground, 15 minutes after…
Author: RHP
Nov
14
Miners Washing Each Other’s Backs in the Showers, a Daily Ritual at the End of the Working Day, 1945
Miners, who are covered in dust and soot, help each other to get clean in the sh…
Nov
9
A Photo of a German Motorcycle Courier in Eastern Front, 1942
Riding on an exposed vehicle in the Russian Winter, here a combination motorcycl…
Nov
7
Seven Horses of the Queen’s Household Cavalry Lie Dead after the IRA Detonated a Nail Bomb in 1982
The Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings were one of the worst IRA atrocities on…
Nov
6
Padaung “Giraffe” Women Visit London: Old Photos, 1935
The Kayan Lahwi people, also known as Padaung, are an ethnic group with populati…
Oct
30
Photographs from the Assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981
The assassins' bullets ended the life of a man who earned a reputation for makin…
Oct
28
The London Milkman Iconic Photograph: The Backstory, 1940
The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London introduced a new weapo…
Oct
24
Worker and Supervisor at a Car Factory, Moscow, 1954
The distance between the two of them is too close. The worker has his hands not …
Oct
20
An Airgunner Stands before his B-24 Bomber Wearing what it Took to Survive at 25,000ft Altitude, 1944
The airgunner in the picture is Major David G. Bellemere and behind him is the B…
Oct
15
A Photo of Guardian Angels on the NYC Subway in 1980
Guardian Angels first made an appearance on the New York subway in 1979 in an at…
Oct
10
Danuta Danielsson’s Iconic Photo: A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi with her Handbag, 1985
The photograph titled A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi with Her Handbag, captured by H…
Oct
5
Ticket to Armistice: Japanese Leaflet Dropped on Allied troops in1942
During World War II there were many different forms of propaganda to support the…
Oct
1
The Drying Mummy: Native American Smoke Curing a Human Corpse, 1910
Among the Kwakwaka'wakw people of the Pacific Northwest, the Hamatsa were a secr…
Sep
27
Vladimir Lenin’s Last Photo in 1923: He had had Three Strokes at this Point and was Completely Mute
This last photo shows Vladimir Lenin in a wheelchair after suffering three stoke…
Sep
24
The Speech Where Adolf Hitler Declared War on the USA: Photo from 1941
On December 11, 1941, several days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and…
Aug
29
Bloody Saturday: A Crying Chinese Baby Amid the Bombed-Out Ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station, 1937
"Bloody Saturday" - Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins …
Aug
9
Neil Armstrong Photographed Just Minutes after Becoming the First Man to Walk on the Moon, 1969
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to ever walk on the moon, …
Jul
24
Luftwaffe Aces Meet Hitler after an Awards Ceremony at the Berghof in 1944
Adolf Hitler chats with his flying aces from Luftwaffe after an awards ceremony …
Jun
23
The Burning Monk: The Story behind the 1963 Iconic Photo
In June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc burned himsel…
May
25
Deputy Mayor Ernst Kurt Lisso and His Family after Committing Suicide by Cyanide to Avoid Capture by US Troops, 1945
As the Red Army and the Western Allies pressed closer and closer to Berlin suici…