Oh, this amazing past!
It is always interesting to observe the amazing past of mankind, even if not so far away. The silent witnesses of historical events gathered in this issue in the form of archival photographs tell us about the affairs of the past days.
1914. German mounted patrol crossing the Meuse
1944. The landing of the Canadian brigade in Normandy
1888. Prince of Wales at the Hiram Stevens Maxim Machine Gun test
1945. Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
1948. Anti-communist protests in Berlin
1949. The crowd tries to have time to pick up their valuables from the bank before the Communists enter Shanghai
1918. An elderly refugee woman with her cow. Amiens
1963. The inventor of glasses-TVs Hugo Gernsback
1940. Children on the London Underground
1944. A Soviet soldier wearing a CH-42 breastplate on the Karelian front
1906. Rainer Maria Rilke © Bernard Shaw
1921. Portrait of an imbecile © Philip Supo
1902. Leo Tolstoy with his daughter Tatiana in Crimea
Keywords: 19th century | Archive