Three ‘Newsies’ photographed at “Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin” in St. Louis, Missouri, at 11am on the 9 May 1910 by Lewis Hine.
U.S. Marine looks up from his foxhole at a husky scouting dog during the Second Battle of Guam, August 1944.
The future last Emperor of the Russian Empire, Tsarevich Nicholas photographed with his fiancé Princess Alix of Hesse in c. July 1894. They went on to marry in November of the same year.
A wounded British soldier and a German POW lighting cigarettes at an advanced dressing station near Epehy, France on the 18 September 1918
A Farm boy browses the magazines at a drugstore in Medford, Oregon, in August 1939. Photograph taken by Dorothea Lange
Mugshots of Benito Mussolini, dated June 19, 1903.
Full length portrait of a young lady, well dressed in 19th century clothing, wearing a hat and a shawl
Benito Mussolini inspecting italian troops, 1940.
Hitler and Chamberlain, 1938
A Japanese mother and child, dressed in traditional clothing, siting amid rubble and burnt trees in Hiroshima, 4 months after the Atomic Bomb was dropped. December, 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt
The New York Highlanders (later Yankees), 1903.
Mark Twain and his long-time friend John T. Lewis, the inspiration for the character “Jim” in “Huckleberry Finn”, New York, 1903.
British Army veteran of the Crimean War, Sergeant Thomas Dawson, who lost his left arm at the Battle of Inkermann on the 5 November 1854, photographed with his daughter in c. 1855.
Breaker boys, Woodward coal mines, Kingston, Pennsylvania, circa 1900. A breaker boy was a young coal mining worker whose job was to detach impurities from coal. They would separate slate, rocks, and other debris from coal by hand. These boys were usually between the ages of 8 to 12, but sometimes were as young as 5 or 6.
Boarding a Greyhound bus between Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, photographed by Esther Bubley in September 1943.
The visit of the Russian royal family to Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1896. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom sits with her granddaughter Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna while she holds her baby daughter Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia stands behind on the left next to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom). This was the last time Queen Victoria and Nicholas II would meet.
A French soldier photographed in a trench located in Tracy-le-Val, France. Photograph taken in 1916.
A coal miner photographed at home in Sessa Hill, Scotts Run, West Virginia, on the 19 March 1937
Kaiser Wilhelm II photographed smoking in Silesia by Oscar Tellgmann in 1913.
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