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‘New paradise for children, China and Japan will forever be close.’ Poster depicting a Chinese mother and child welcoming Japanese troops to occupied Beijing (c. 1937)
Farmers hang nooses at a foreclosure auction to intimidate outside bidders. Michigan, 1936. (891×599)
Roman Catholic priest Johann Nepomuk Kühberger, who as a four-year-old saved a boy his age who had fallen into the icy waters near the small town of Passau. According to locals, this boy was Adolf Hitler. Photo from the 1950s.
The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th
The first ever photograph of a woman taken in 1839, of Dorothy Catherine Draper. Her daguerreotype portrait is the only surviving contemporary photograph of someone wearing the 1830s poke bonnet, a pre Victorian hat
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‘Dunedin’, the first ship to successfully transport refrigerated meat from New Zealand to England, photographed at Port Chalmers in 1882.
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John Hahn’s Shoe Store, 1890
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1872 “American Progress”. Columbia, bringing light, steam locomotives, railways, bridges, telegraph lines and, in general, all progress to tribes of savages and barbarians. We built them schools, hospitals, factories, cities, roads.
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Vincent van Gogh – 1873
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“The Living Skeleton” vs “The Fat Man” – 1897
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Young woman, circa 1850s.
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Frédéric Chopin – c. 1849
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Claude Monet – 1899
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First Nations Treaty negotiators gather at the conclusion of negotiations in the Lake of the Woodsregion southwest of Rat Portage, Ontario, in 1873. .
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Charles Dickens ~ c. 1860
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William Jennings Bryan (left), Democratic nominee for President, on the campaign trail with his wife and assistant, Mary, in Crestline, Ohio, August 1896
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Portrait of Mormon polygamists in the Utah Penitentiary, 1889
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Massachusetts clergyman Rollin Heber Neal. 1850. 1133X1500 pixels
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Canadian Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau with his press secretary Suzanne Perry (Matthew Perry’s mother), Ottawa, February 1980, photographer Boris Spremo
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John H. Patterson poses with a lion he shot, one of a pair of Tsavo man-eaters. It was a pair of maneless males that attacked Indian railway builders in southern British Kenya. The exact number of people killed by the lions is unclear. Patterson claimed there were 135 victims. Dec 1898
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President Nelson Mandela congratulates Springboks captain Francios Pienaar upon winning the Rugby World Cup, Johannesburg, 24 June 1995.
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On August 12, 1898, the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi over ʻIolani Palace was lowered to raise the United States flag to signify annexation.
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American Red Cross volunteer, San Francisco 1898. 1186X1500 pixels. Coloured by me and AI.
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Congolese people part of an exhibit at the Africa Museum in Belgium, 1897
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“The Man Behind The Gun Will Settle The War” 1898 US, by Puck Magazine
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