⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

2023-05-14 05:14:27 A young woman in the traditional dress of Alsace, France, c. 1890s-1910s Open / Comment

2023-05-14 01:49:28 A British soldier poses with a shell containing a message for Kaiser Wilhelm: "To Willie with compliments", WWI Open / Comment

2023-05-13 14:09:05 Ancient seal depiction of Persian king Darius the Great in a royal chariot shooting arrows at a rampant lion, with the god Ahura Mazda above, c. 5th-6th century BC Open / Comment

2023-05-13 05:37:05 Revolutionary general Pancho Villa and some of his followers during the Mexican Revolution, c. 1910s Open / Comment

2023-05-12 20:32:52 French prisoners of war being marched away from the front, May 1940. Following the Battle of France, the Germans took about 1.8 million French prisoners, equivalent to around 10 percent of the total adult male population of France at the time. After a brief period of captivity in France, most of the prisoners were deported to Germany. In Germany, prisoners were incarcerated in Stalag or Oflag prison camps, but the vast majority were soon transferred to forced labour details. Open / Comment

2023-05-12 17:40:57 A couple of Swedes in traditional dress on a small farm, 1910s, original autochrome colour photo Open / Comment

2023-05-12 15:56:45 Former prisoners demonstrate a form of punishment employed by the SS in Gusen, 12 May 1945. Gusen was a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp operated by the SS and populated primarily by Polish prisoners. The camp was liberated by the United States 11th Armored Division early in the morning of 5 May, 1945 Open / Comment

2023-05-11 22:30:32 A Chinese man in Shanghai wearing a cangue (inscribed with his crime) as a punishment, c. 1870. This device was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in East Asia until the early twentieth century. Open / Comment

2023-05-11 18:02:03 Empress Isabella of Portugal, wife of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. She was also Queen of Spain, Germany, and Italy, and served as the regent of Spain because of her husband's constant travels through Europe, ensuring that the kingdom remained independent of imperial policies and economically healthy during her lifetime. Open / Comment

2023-05-11 15:05:27 US soldiers make German civilians walk past the bodies of Jewish women murdered by German SS troops in a 500-kilometre (300 mi) death march from Helmbrecht to Volary, May 11, 1945 Open / Comment