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: Randy Nineteenth Century May 8, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Not sure what this is about, but the image from 1835 is clearly slanderous…
Daily History Picture: American Gothic Originals May 7, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The models….
Daily History Picture: Titanic Iceberg? May 6, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
A myth? This photograph is supposed to be the iceberg that ‘did it’ to the Titanic. See the paint along the side… 25 May 2015: NH has strong feelings… Not, I suggest. This photograph was up for sale in 2012 It is similar but marked as taken from a different ship. The entry says there […]
Daily History Picture: Bomb Berlin! May 5, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
British hoarding in central London 1940.
Daily History Picture: Mannerheim at Odessa April 30, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The hero of Finland just as the revolution is beginning in his adopted homeland, Russia, recuperating at Odessa.
Daily History Picture: Luxembourg Liberated April 29, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Allies arrive at the end of WW1 and the Grand Duchy tastes freedom for another twenty years.
Daily History Picture: Medieval Golf April 28, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Late medieval manuscript (BM) showing what looks like golf.
Daily History Picture: Rolling Ball April 27, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Loisset performs the ball trick at the Vauxhall Gardens
Daily History Picture: Fish or Beast? April 26, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Beautiful fourteenth-century beaver: fish or animal?
Daily History Picture: Pinkerton, Lincoln and McClellan April 24, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Three great Americans at Antietam
Daily History Picture: Liberation! April 23, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
De Gaulle drives into a free Paris
Daily History Picture: Medieval Donuts? April 22, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
I have no idea… Probably the artist didn’t either…
Daily History Picture: Marco Pole En Route April 21, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Fourteenth century illustration of Marco Polo’s travels…
Daily History Picture: Painting Virgins April 20, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Beautiful late medieval painting of painting
Daily History Picture: Yet More Monkeys April 19, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Those damn medieval monkeys again. Why did they find them so fascinating?
