⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

2021-07-06 18:07:06 The streets of Blankenberge, Belgium, ca. 1890s, photochrome Open / Comment

2021-07-06 15:54:42 Four-year-old Michael Finder of East Germany is tossed by his father into a net held by firemen across the border in West Berlin, 1961 Open / Comment

2021-07-06 05:01:49 A man riding a penny farthing bicycle over Hammersmith Bridge, London, c. 1900-1910s Open / Comment

2021-07-06 01:25:21 Indian girls on their way to the well, 1935 Open / Comment

2021-07-05 22:04:33 One shall fall! A fencing match in Melun, France, 1908 Open / Comment

2021-07-05 16:43:15 People strolling through North African exhibits set up in Paris during the 1899 Exposition Universelle. During this event exhibits and buildings were set up representing many countries and regions from across the world. Open / Comment

2021-07-05 04:44:18 A young Romanian girl raking in the hay, 1920s Open / Comment

2021-07-05 00:23:48 Men of the Royal Irish Rifles rest during the early days of the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. Open / Comment

2021-07-04 19:42:53 A biplane with its propeller spinning is towed down 5th Avenue by a car as part of a July 4th parade in the city of New York, 1910s (colourized) Open / Comment

2021-07-04 16:45:14 The delegates to the Second Continental Congress representing the 13 colonies authorize the Congress to approve the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Declaration proclaimed the signatory colonies were now "free and independent States," and no longer colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain. (John Trumbull's 1819 painting above depicts the five-man drafting committee of the declaration presenting their work to the Second Continental Congress) Open / Comment