⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

2021-07-04 04:02:25 A passion play in Oberammergau, Germany, 1871. Originally developed in Medieval Europe, passion plays retold the story of last days of Christ, his death and resurrection. Open / Comment

2021-07-04 00:17:56 People visiting Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma (Myanmar) in 1906 Open / Comment

2021-07-03 20:40:40 Open / Comment

2021-07-03 18:14:54 At the 50th anniversary reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg, aged Union and Confederate veteran shake hands, July 1913. Open / Comment

2021-07-03 16:51:17 Confederate General Lewis Armistead leading his men while waving his hat upon his sword during Pickett's Charge, which would become known as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy", Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. This battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the turning point of the war due to the Union's decisive victory (During the previous years of the war the Confederacy has won most of the major battles and the Northern forces suffered from poor leadership). Open / Comment

2021-07-03 05:30:42 Two women cooking in an old fashioned oven in Sardinia, c. 1920s Open / Comment

2021-07-03 01:24:12 Swedes holding a midsummer celebration, c. 1900-1910s Open / Comment

2021-07-02 20:04:15 Portrait of young Hungarian boy Istvan Reiner, taken shortly before he was killed in Auschwitz. Istvan arrived at Auschwitz with his mother, Livia, and her mother. Other inmates convinced Livia to give the boy to his grandmother and go through selection alone. She was chosen for forced labor and survived the war. Istvan and his grandmother were gassed. Open / Comment

2021-07-02 15:04:14 The American general and future president Dwight Eisenhower, British field marshall Bernard L. Montgomery, and British air marshal Sir Arthur Tedder overlooking an artillery problem, 1944. (colourized) Open / Comment

2021-07-02 05:43:10 Police leading away an apparently injured man following protests in Madrid, Spain, on May 1, with the Metropolis Building in the background. (1918) Open / Comment