Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 362, click here. 1. Pele and President Gerald Ford play with a soccer ball in the Rose Guard, White House, 1975. 2. Anne Frank in front of Opekta, her father’s company in Singel, Amsterdam in 1935. 3. Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) resting in the desert…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 361, click here. 1. A man recording a concert in Poland in the 1980s. 2. A photo of Father Hans Schmidt, a Catholic priest who emigrated from Germany due to scandals. In 1913, he gained international notoriety after murdering a woman and drinking her blood. For…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 360, click here. 1. Plymouth Voyager 3 Concept. A miniature tractor-trailer, 1989. 2. 9-year-old Eunice Winstead Johns and her husband, 22-year-old Charlie Johns, Sneedville, Tennessee, United States, 1937. 3. Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek make a toast to celebrate the surrender of Japan in August 1945.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 359, click here. 1. Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. They managed to destroy…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 358, click here. 1. A Filipino-American family posing for a family portrait, Philippines, 1912. 2. Maori women from New Zealand in 1902. 3. Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA’s Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California, 1962. 4. A twin in a Russian…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 357, click here. 1. A father looking for his two missing sons that went missing during the Kosovo war in 1999. 2. Statue of Liberty towering over Paris just before it was disassembled and shipped to New York, in 1886. 3. Anne Frank, with her sister…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 356, click here. 1. Bride leaving her recently bombed home to get married, London, 4 Nov 1940. 2. Robert McGee was scalped as a child by Sioux Indians, in 1890. 3. Sleeping kitty, 1930. The photograph was taken by Alton Blackington. 4. Adolf Hitler gets gift…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 355, click here. 1. Anti NAZI demonstration in Berlin, 1932. 2. A foot guard passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during a parade, in 1970. 3. A Native American and White couple, El Reno, Oklahoma. 4. The German National Football Team at the FIFA…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 353, click here. 1. FBI informant Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee, 1947. 2. Father and son goofing off, the 1910s. 3. Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends a parade at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, wearing the original…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 352, click here. 1. A photo of Mbaye Diagne, a UN peacekeeper who disobeyed his orders to stand down during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. He is credited with single-handedly saving the lives of as…… Read More »