The Ethiopian Negus Menelik II who defeated the Italians in the battle of Adawa and thus saving his nation from colonisation. 1913
Revolutionary leader Che Guevara attending a United Nations Trade Conference at Geneva. August 28, 1965
Toffs and Toughs – A famous photo taken by Jimmy Sime at Lord’s Cricket Ground in 1937 illustrating the class divide in Britain
Jim Jarrett wearing the Tritonia diving suit, preparing to explore the wreck of RMS Lusitania, 1935
FDR visits a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, 1933. In 9 years, 3 million poor young men joined the CCC. They were fed, housed, and paid a wage that was mostly sent to their families. Their efforts improved public land to this day.
Class photo, Missouri farm school in the 1920s
Sumo wrestling. Yokohama – Japan, 1887
A Universal Carrier crew of the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in the Netherlands on September 22, 1944
Homosexual prisoners at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, wearing pink triangles on their uniforms on December 19, 1938
On May 27, 1942, an assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘architect of Holocaust’, was undertaken by Josef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš in Prague, making it one of the few successful assassinations of a high profile Nazi during the WW2
Following the war, Franz Böttger, a supervisor at Dachau, was hunted down and captured by his own surviving victims. This is Dachau survivor Michael Pellis personally approaching and identifying Böttger, who is now trial for his life. He would be found guilty and hanged, 1945
Oswald Pohl, the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camp system, has a final photo taken moments before he is executed by the U.S. military at Landsberg Prison. The U.S. commissioner called Pohl one of the prison’s absolute “worst of the worst”. West Germany, 1951
U.S. Marines in Peiping, China readies for deployment to lift the siege in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, c. June 1900
Japanese American boy scouts in the Granada internment camp raise the flag to half-staff at a memorial ceremony for six “Nisei” relatives of the camp members killed in action in Italy. Colorado, 1944
A Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; most of the houses in this district have been abandoned.
