Dec
14
An Afghan Mujahideen Aims a FIM-92 Stinger Missile at Passing Soviet Aircraft, 1988
A guerrilla soldier aims a Stinger missile at passing aircraft near a remote reb…
Author: RHP
Dec
6
Porters Transport a Car on Long Poles Across a Stream in Nepal, 1948
Cars are supposed to carry people, but in Nepal people carried cars on the rocky…
Dec
4
An American Marine Exhibits the Thousand-Yard Stare after Two Days of Constant Fighting in the Battle of Eniwetok, 1944
The United States Marine Corps Private Theodore James Miller assigned to the 22n…
Nov
30
Winning Family of the Fittest Family Award Stands Outside of the Eugenics Building, 1925
The American Eugenics Society presented eugenics exhibits at state fairs through…
Nov
29
A Father Comforts his Son on his Deathbed: The Photo that Changed the Face of AIDS, 1989
This picture is widely considered the photo that changed the face of AIDS. It sh…
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…
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…