Some of the best historical photos, images, maps and graphics that we have found on the web and in books. This history by picture is history as you have not seen it before. Enjoy!
Daily History Picture: First Light October 5, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
An old favourite…
Daily History Picture: Finnish Catapult October 2, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
I tried this once with stones, I would not like to try it with grenades…
Daily History Picture: The Flight of Witches September 30, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
One of Goya’s most mysterious pictures: the flight of reason?
Daily History Picture: Swiss Guard Hold Firm September 29, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Nazis salute Swiss Guard at the Vatican…
Daily History Picture: Winter War September 28, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Finnish troops prepare for a Soviet attack. Note the skis.
Daily History Picture: Prisoners! September 27, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
American and Filipino troops have surrendered to the Japanese. How many made it to the end of the war?
Daily History Picture: Execution at the Tower September 25, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Melodramatic nineteenth century reproduction of a beheading at the tower. Love the executioner’s head…
Daily History Picture: Empire States September 24, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Taking a photograph off the eagle.
Daily History Picture: Bin Laden Dead September 23, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
By far the most interesting face here is Hillary’s, even more striking in the video.
Daily History Picture: Witch? September 22, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
A witch on a French cathedral door? Note the goat and a hare (?) being whirled around. Perhaps better a hag (a non-human supernatural witch)
Daily History Picture: Budapest Resists September 21, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Burnt out Soviet tanks in the streets of Budapest: 1956.
Daily History Picture: Enemy Buried September 20, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Dead British pilot giving full military service in Germany in 1941.
Daily History Picture: Bombed Out Cathedral September 18, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
One of Britain’s most lovely cathedrals, Coventry, bombed out in Nov 14 1940.
Daily History Picture: Klan and Black Police September 17, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Black policeman protects a Klan member. 1970s? 19 Sept 2015: Bruce T writes ‘It’s been awhile, but I believe that photo is from the Skokie Protests in suburban Chicago, circa 1979. The Klan and Neo-Nazi’s tried several times to march in the suburb of Skokie, home to a large Jewish population, and the highest number […]
Daily History Picture: Date Snafu September 16, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
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