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Central African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa & his wife Catherine during his coronation as ‘Emperor of Central Africa,’ 1977. The ceremony was so extravagant that it cost a 3rd of the country’s entire annual budget to carry out. None of the world leaders invited to the event attended (1920×1080)
Germans removing ruins in front of the Reichstag (1946)
‘Aid to the Starving, American Style.’ Soviet Union, c. 1970s
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his wife Queen Elena outside their house in Alexandria (Egypt) where they lived in exile, 1947
‘Grandmother with the Soviet flag’, painting, 2022
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80 years ago today, on May 28, 1945, British fascist William Joyce (‘Lord Haw Haw’) was captured in Flensburg. He later became the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom.
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A Dayak man gnaws on the severed leg of a killed Madurese settler, near Singkawang, Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. March, 1999.
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Jarts (1976)
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My great aunt Princess Anastasia Tumanishvili (1900-1917) (picture was taken in the mid 1910s)
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Swedish Sámi Family in front of their traditional dwelling in Skansen. 29th August 1910
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The Lincoln Memorial in 1920.
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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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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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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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