⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

2021-07-15 20:45:53 Supervised by American soldiers, German civilians from the town of Nordhausen bury the corpses of prisoners found at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in mass graves. Original colour photograph taken in 1945. Open / Comment

2021-07-15 18:26:13 A Luftwaffe airman stands guard over several Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bombers and ground attack aircrafts, with bombs laid out in the grass near them; circa 1940. Open / Comment

2021-07-15 15:56:49 15 July 1099: Capture of Jerusalem by Crusader forces during the First Crusade. Illustration from a 14th century manuscript. Open / Comment

2021-07-15 05:06:14 A Greek soldier keeps his machine gun at the ready, on the lookout for guerrilla troops during the Greek Civil War, May 1948 Open / Comment

2021-07-14 22:43:21 Putting the top on the Washington Monument, Washington DC, 1884 Open / Comment

2021-07-14 21:27:36 The Cathedral of the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception and the Plaza de la Catedral, Havana, Cuba, 1900. Open / Comment

2021-07-14 18:09:31 A piper of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders leads four men of the 26th Brigade back from the trenches after the attack on Longueval, WWI. July 14, 1916. Open / Comment

2021-07-14 16:39:26 14 July 1789: The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris.
The Bastille, a medieval fortress converted into a state prison, was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuse of power. Open / Comment

2021-07-14 05:00:14 Italian girls fetching water, c. 1870s-1890s Open / Comment

2021-07-13 23:06:09 Crewmen of the Japanese battleship Fusō, WWII Open / Comment