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Harry Powers, the ‘Butcher of Clarksburg’, stands in jail after confessing to murdering five people, including a mother and her three children, ages 10 to 14, whom he strangled and beat to death. The police explained the bruises by claiming that Harry had ‘fallen up’ some stairs, 1931 .
A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her mother’s blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI’s. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 16 March 1968.
Billboard of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation: 135 years since birth / Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin / ‘He received Russia with a plough, and left with the atom bomb’ W. Churchill. 2015.
A French soldier in 1918, equipped with a helmet with chainmail to protect the eyes from shell fragments, stones, and other dangerous elements
Several frigates during the October 19, 1995 fleet review. From front to back: Type 053H1G Shantou(汕头, 561), type 053H2 Huangshi(黄石, 535), Type 053H2G Anqing(安庆, 539) and type 053H2G Tongling(铜陵, 541). It was the largest fleet review China had done at the time. (extra info in description)
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  • Einstein sitting outside a small wooden cottage near Cromer in Norfolk, England. He was the guest of Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, who sits on the ground next to the professor carrying a shotgun. Oliver had offered refuge to Einstein to help him avoid persecution by the Nazis. 1933.
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  • Racial education class at a school for German girls, 1943
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  • East Berlin in the late 1980s
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  • A young Filipino girl is pictured sitting on a wooden bench in an enclosure and ‘displayed’ in Coney Island. New York, 1905.
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  • Piggly Wiggly Delicatessen – May 1977 – Selma, AL
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  • A photo of Emperor Menelik II after successfully defeating the Italians & saving Ethiopia from European colonization 1896
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  • German cartoon (ca. 1931) mocking Ernst Röhm’s homosexuality.
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  • Fidel Castro with his five-member revolutionary tribunal in a court-martial of a local peasant, 1957.
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  • Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua before execution by the Japanese, 1938
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  • Kodachrome shot of a 3 generation family being shot while carving a turkey, December of 1956.
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  • ‘A study in empires’ – German WW2 propaganda poster
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  • Harold Jones, 15, wears a gold watch gifted to him to celebrate his acquittal in the murder of a young girl. After his acquittal, he had been welcomed back to his home town with cheers from the locals. It turns out Jones was guilty. He killed another young girl weeks later, Wales, 1921 .
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  • German Soldiers Marching through the streets of one of the British Channel Islands. 1940 (1200×800)
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  • “A small state threatens Germany” Nazi era map portraying Czechoslovakia being hostile to Germany (1934)
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  • ‘I told you she was too old to have a baby!’ (Fletcher’s Castoria ad from Country Gentleman magazine 1940)
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  • Teacher John T. Scopes stands in the courtroom during his trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in his high school science class. 1925 (750×500)
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  • Mao and Stalin // Soviet Union // 1952
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  • Woman with long hair, brushes it off while looking at the mirror, 1880s. Sharp shot.
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  • ‘Russians, Go Home!’ Hungary 1956
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  • Warren Nutter, 19, reads a letter from his mother. He was one of the youngest men sentenced to death in Iowa. After his sentence was commuted to life in prison, he became one of the longest serving inmates in the country. Nutter served 65 years at the Iowa State Penitentiary, 1957 .
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