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Portrait of Vance a Trapper Boy (15 years old), 1908. He has trapped for several years. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come. Photo by Lewis Hine
Winston Churchill moved to tears following a tribute to his legacy shortly after his resignation as Prime Minister, 1955. Churchill would remain a British MP until 1964, but would never again return to the position of Prime Minister (1200×980)
The Tears of Robert McNamara (Jack Ohman, 1995)
‘The Woman with the Handbag’ – A 38-year-old woman, Danuta Danielsson, hits a marching Neo-Nazi with a handbag in Växjö, Sweden. April 13, 1985.
My grandparents in 1947. Grandma passed yesterday at 98 years old.
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  • Jan 1941 — My Uncle (Hal Ascherin) and 4 other U.S. Sailors Tear Down Nazi Flag from German Consulate in San Francisco
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  • USS Midway (CV-41) underway in the Indian Ocean, June 5, 1993
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  • American soldier from the 29th Infantry Division armed with a bazooka runs past a knocked out German Hetzer. Aldenhoven ,Germany, 1944
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  • Twin sisters watch out a porthole of the SS St. Louis Jewish refugee ship, not permitted to disembark in Cuba or the U.S. after escaping Nazi Germany. Havana, Cuba. May 1939.
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  • British submarine HMS Artful alongside in Faslane. The boat has not sailed for more than three years, having last left Faslane in mid-2022.
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  • Stern view of Courageous-class battlecruiser HMS Furious in 1917, showing one of the ship’s two 18-inch guns.
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  • “Gays & Lesbians Against Nazis!” Germany, 1989
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  • ‘Please!’ – Japanese leaflet intended for American soldiers, circa 1943.
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  • ‘To the German mothers!’, 1920s leaflet by the Reich Federation of Jewish Frontline Soldiers
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  • Serbian mobster, warlord, & paramilitary commander Željko Ražnatović, aka ‘Arkan’ holding a baby tiger, 1991. Ražnatović’s unit, the Serb Volunteer Guard, was notorious for its war crimes & he was one of the most feared men in Serbia. He escaped from jail twice & was assassinated in 2000 (3677×2500)
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  • Soviet Poster about US Importing Germans After WWII
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  • ‘Greater Germany in the future’. Nazi German poster promoting the colonization of Eastern Europe, 1943.
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  • A day after his execution on this day in 1967, Che Guevara’s corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital, Bolivia.
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  • For almost 70 years, the young girl in this post-war photograph was unidentified. Research traced her identity to Teresa Adwentowska, from Warsaw, who was severely affected by wartime trauma. In a residence for disturbed children, she drew a picture of ‘home’ on the blackboard. 1948.
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  • Colonial chief Waruhiu Kungu (Kenya)lies dead in his Hudson car after being shot by Mau Mau, Oct 7th,1952 ,the first shots of the Kenyan independence war
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  • In 1970, troops from the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed people at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others
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  • U.S. soldiers posing with the bodies of Moro men, women & children following the Bud Dajo massacre on Jolo Island, Philippines, March 7, 1906
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  • British cartoon about Joseph Stalin ignoring the signs of a German led invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941
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  • An ethnic German girl in a transit camp before being deported from Czechoslovakia during postwar expulsions, August 1946 (2457×2013)
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  • The dead bodies of Leipzig Deputy Mayor Ernst Lisso, his wife Renate & their daughter Regina after committing suicide by cyanide in his office to avoid capture by US troops. April 18, 1945 (2813×1875)
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