Skip to content
Latest :
On August 7th 1930, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched in the town center of Marion, Indiana. Photographer Lawrence Beitler captured the scene, creating what became the most iconic photograph of lynching in America. The case was never solved.
San Francisco’s Cliff House, early 1900.
A WW2 era Mercedes-Benz propaganda poster showcasing their contributions to the German war machine.
Classmates on the first day of the school in Beslan, 1st September 2004. No one survived from this photo.
Zhang Xueliang, the last surviving Chinese warlord, with his wife in Hawaii, 1990s. In 1936 he became notorious for kidnapping Chiang-Kai-Shek & forcing him to ally with the Chinese communists against the Japanese. He was later imprisoned by Chiang for over 50 years & died in 2001 at 100 (1349×1048)
British champion weightlifter Ivy Russell, poses with her trophy after her victory over Tillie Tinmouth with the winning lift: 369.5 pounds, at 5ft 7, 126 pounds. 13 of April of 1932
Love This Image? You Can Post It!
you might also like
B-17 ball turret gunner Alan Magee, who fell 22,000 feet without a parachute, landing on the glass roof of St. Nazaire train station, breaking it through. He suffered multiple injuries, including a broken leg and a badly cut arm, but he lived. January 3, 1943.
“Putin! Stop! Come back here or I’ll be forced to draft a strongly worded condemnation!”, 2014.
The car used for the 300 Million Yen Robbery. It was a robbery that occurred on 10 December 1968 in Tokyo. A man posing as a police officer stopped bank employees transferring money and stole 294m yen. It is the single largest heist in Japanese history. The case remains unsolved (1969)
An unauthorized photo of Stalin, taken after he was informed that the Germans were about to capture Kiev (Kyiv), 1941. Photograph taken by the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Gay Bob dolls. 1977
Anti-masturbation cartoon published in the ‘The Sexual System and its Derangements’, an 1875 book published in New York and written by one Emery C. Abbey. The cartoon contrasts the sorry state of the masturbator at ages 16 and 50 with the health & vitality of the abstainer at ages 21 and 70.
Previous
124
125
126
Next
Load More Posts
Page load link
Go to Top
