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In 1946 Marilyn Monroe worked as a pin-up girl and charged $10 an hour to be photographed as reference for images that were turned into paintings. This is an example of one of the more ‘safe for work’ images. (1080×960)
Soviet Politician Lavrentiy Beria with Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, USSR, 1930s (767×1000)
Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting ‘Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!’ before being overtaken by the blast
Car Sharing is a ‘Must’! 1942.
Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) .
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2002 Venezuelan mural featuring Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Muammar Gaddafi.
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1938. Tourists drinking tea at the top of the Great Pyramid
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A happy Hitler with happy children, 1936
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Joy White stands next to the empty crib meant for her newborn daughter. Her baby, Carlina, was 19 days old when she was kidnapped from a hospital in Harlem, New York. The girl was found alive over 20 years later, 1987 .
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Husband’s Great Grandmother- Bessie Shirley. Clarksville Arkansas area, around 1912-1914
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Louis Armstrong serenades his wife at the Sphinx. Egypt 1961 (1303×1007)
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Hélène Brabander, resistance fighter, murdered in Auschwitz. January 23rd, 1943. (3480×1597)
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“Why we must have a League of Nations” American cartoon about Germany not being allowed in the new League of Nations after WW1 (1919)
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Parisian mothers cover their children from German snipers 1944
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Soldiers of the Swedish Landstorm guarding the coast, Furuskär, ca. 1916
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One of the only known photos of Subha Talfah, the mother of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taken sometime in the 1950’s or 60’s. Subha unsuccessfully tried to abort Saddam before he was born. (594×424)
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Percy Fawcett, who disappeared 100 years ago today and was never seen again whilst on an expedition into the Amazon Rainforest looking for a lost city he referred to as “Z”. May 1925,.
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The road-oriented Wehrmacht force of 1941 was not prepared for the terrible conditions of unpaved Russian roads.
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Mom and Dad 1959. Dad passed last year . Mom is doing well at 86. Taken in Bamberg, Germany.
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John F. Schrank after his arrest. On October 14, 1912, Schrank shot former president and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt outside a Milwaukee hotel. .
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29 May 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest.
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‘Evolution of a Russian’ english caricature from the 19th century
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National Parks worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean Lincoln’s ear at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987 – Bettmann / Getty
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LADY BE COOL (1974)
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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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