Oct
28
The London Milkman Iconic Photograph: The Backstory, 1940
The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London introduced a new weapo…
Author: RHP
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…
Apr
27
A Guard of Honor Passes Out as Queen Elizabeth II Rides Past during the Trooping the Colour Parade, 1970
In the strict world of British military protocol, there are even rules on how to…
Mar
14
Emaciated British Soldiers after their Release from Japanese Captivity in Singapore, 1945
Five emaciated former prisoners of war sitting on the steps of an ambulance in S…
Jan
25
A Girl who Grew Up in a War Zone Draws a Picture of “Home” while Living in a Residence for Disturbed Children, 1948
This extraordinary picture taken in 1948 by David Seymour, one of Magnum Photos’…
Jan
18
John F. Kennedy Campaigns in Rural West Virginia, Precariously Perched on a High-Chair to Deliver his Speech, 1960
While part of every candidate's retinue, security was simply not the pressing pu…
Dec
13
The Solvay Conference: Probably the Most Intelligent Picture Ever Taken, 1927
The Solvay Conference, founded by the Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay in 191…
Nov
23
Rudolf Hoess: The Commandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, is Hanged Next to the Crematorium at the Camp, 1947
Rudolf Hoess (Rudolf Höss) was the architect and commandant of the largest killi…