Tag Archives: Photos

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 318, click here. 1. British schoolboys holding discarded syringes, the 1970s. 2. Bill Clinton & White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, 1998. 3. Ronald Reagan pictured next to Emperor Hirohito, 9 November 1983. 4. A portrait of Buck Colbert Franklin, an attorney who notably defended the survivors…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 317, click here. 1. Stoney First Nation member, guide Samson Beaver with his wife Leah and their daughter Frances Louise, 1907. The photo was taken by Mary Schäffer. 2. Rail commuters wearing white protective masks, one with the additional message “wear a mask or go to…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 316, click here. 1. Eiffel Tower under construction, July 1888. 2. 20-year-old Joe DiMaggio having some of his Mom Rosalie’s Spaghetti, 1936. 3. Soviet border guard on duty wearing winter uniform, the 1960s. 4. Liu Shaoqi being subjected to public humiliation during the Cultural Revolution. He…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 315, click here. 1. Oskar Schindler was mobbed by hundreds of holocaust survivors in Jerusalem, 1962. 2. Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen stands next to his third wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale. He is wearing a polar bear coat made from a bear he killed himself, 1947. 3. Tucker…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 314, click here. 1. Man reading comics while being tattooed, Tokyo, Japan, 1970. The photo was by Martha Cooper. 2. Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Program read the news that Smallpox had been globally eradicated, 1980. 3. A Navajo smile, 1904. The photo…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 313, click here. 1. Danish model Winnie Holman, Cannes, 1975. The photo was taken by Helmut Newton. 2. A photo of John Quincy Adam, the first-ever president to be photographed, over 14 years after he left his office on 1 August 1843. 3. Picture of the…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 312, click here. 1. A menorah stands on the windowsill of a Jewish home across from Nazi Party headquarters in Kiel, Germany in 1932. 2. 78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 311, click here. 1. Former president Andrew Jackson aged 78, one of the few existing photographs of him, taken in 1845, the year he died. 2. Miners in the Serra Pelada gold mines in Brazil, the 1980s. 3. Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler on a visit…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 310, click here. 1. A man takes a selfie using a stick of wood to activate the camera, 1957. 2. Joe Arridy (right) is giving his toy train to a fellow inmate before leaving to death row. Joe, 23, with the mental age of 5 (IQ…… Read More »