Wednesday, February 22, 2023

HISTORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS

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On a man’s mission, Pal Pruck, 15, was one of the many brave teen-agers who fought in the [1956 Hungarian] rebellion. He is standing in a rubble-strewn Budapest street.

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Newly restored photos of Shackleton’s fateful Antarctic voyage offer unprecedented fdtails of survival




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Two men in butcher aprons outside shop, Deuel & Smith Cash Meat Market, northeastern New Mexico

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Hungarian bootmaker workshop, c1910.

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Two men play tennis on the wings of a bi-plane, c.1920 [800 x 542]

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Kuwait City, 1965

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Women window cleaners working in London, ca. 1917.

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Spain, 1955-56.



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Child soldiers taking a smoke break, Angola (1976).

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Lenin and Stalin at Gorki, just outside Moscow. September 1922

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Police officer guarding a pharmacy in high-flood waters, Ontario, 1974


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100,000 Iranian women march against the Hijab Law, Tehran 1979

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In 1941, the photo on the left was taken of Soviet soldier Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev on the gay he left to go to w. The photo on the right was taken in 1945 after the end of the war, just 4 years apart.

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A young Hitler cheers the start of World War One, 1914

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Vladimir Lenin's last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923




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