⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

2021-06-29 19:01:05 Men of the Seaforth Highlanders on guard duty at the white cliffs of Dover, circa 1939-1940. Open / Comment

2021-06-29 15:03:12 A man delivers milk in San Jose, Costa Rica, c. 1900, photochrome Open / Comment

2021-06-29 06:16:56 Dovedale, Lion Rock, Derbyshire, England - 1890s photochrome Open / Comment

2021-06-28 22:06:22 Hungarians deface a statue of brutal communist dictator Stalin which was torn down in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution, 1956 Open / Comment

2021-06-28 18:35:30 A Bicharin soldier. The Bicharin are a tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group that live in southern Egypt and Sudan. (c. 1870s-1890s) Open / Comment

2021-06-28 15:10:10 Military officers and politicians climbing over furniture to watch the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles after WWI, June 28th, 1919. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. Open / Comment

2021-06-28 05:26:08 A mother and daughter in Serbian folk costume, c. 1900-1920s Open / Comment

2021-06-27 22:00:01 Sailors playing instruments aboard the Wabash, 1863. Open / Comment

2021-06-27 15:52:07 27 June 1743: King George II of Britain personally leads his troops into battle and victory against the French at the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria during the War of the Austrian Succession. This was the last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field. Open / Comment

2021-06-27 05:47:38 A munitions factory in Moscow, Russia. Examiner Baibakova checking 76-mm armor-piercing shells, 1941-1943 (colourized) Open / Comment