The huge statue of Stalin in Budapest, which was toppled during the revolution, was on October 23, 1956. The inscription on the statue reads: “Murderer of 25 million people!”
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18 Fascinating Photos Collected From History
One of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945, Shoichi Yokoi (1915-1997) is overcome with emotion on his return to Tokyo, 2nd February 1972.
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Attorney General Robert Kennedy is comforted by two of his children on the lawn of his home, after he had been notified of the assassination of his brother, November 22, 1963
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
One Nation Indivisible, San Francisco, by Doorthea Lange. 1942
5 Historical Photos That Speak Volumes
The Vanishing Race, 1904
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5 Historical Photos That Speak Volumes
A mountain of bison skulls, circa 1892
The photograph was taken in 1892 at the Michigan Carbon Works near Detroit. Two men stand among a mountain of bison skulls, one at its base and the other near its summit. They appear very small. The dead animals do not appear small at all.
Only a few decades earlier, tens of millions of bison had moved across the Great Plains. Their herds could darken the ground to the horizon. They fed and clothed Indigenous nations, provided tools and shelter, and occupied a central place in ceremonies and stories that had endured for generations.
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Dolly Parton and Carl Dean, her husband of 56 years, when they first met in 1964.
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Paul von Hindenburg at the opening of the new Reichstag in Potsdam, March 21, 1933
The Photos That Exposed the Dark Side of Gilded Age New York
In the late 19th century, New York City was booming, but behind its growing wealth and towering buildings was another world entirely. Crowded into dark, poorly ventilated tenements, thousands of working class families and newly arrived immigrants lived in conditions that much of the city’s wealthier population rarely saw.
Photographer and journalist Jacob Riis set out to make those conditions impossible to ignore. Using the relatively new technology of flash photography, he ventured into tenements, lodging houses, alleys, and cramped apartments to document everyday life among New York’s poorest residents. His photographs became the foundation of his influential 1890 book, How the Other Half Lives.
More than a century later, Riis’s images remain an extraordinary and often unsettling visual record of a city divided by wealth, opportunity, and circumstance. These photographs offer a glimpse into the lives, homes, and streets that existed just beyond the view of Gilded Age New York’s more prosperous residents.
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Handling serpents at the Pentecostal Church of God. Kentucky. Photo by Russell Lee. 1946
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5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989
15 Fascinating Photos That Show Everyday Life in 1941
The Main Concourse of New York’s Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, in October of 1941.
