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  • Some of the best historical photos, images, maps and graphics that we have found on the web and in books. This history by picture is history as you have not seen it before. Enjoy!

    Daily History Picture: Facial Hair October 12, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Facial Hair

    Loved this.

    Daily History Picture: Head Cutting October 11, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Head Cutting

    Sorry…

    Daily History Picture: Familiar Spirits October 10, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Familiar Spirits

    Late 18C by (or in the book of) a man that saw them…

    Daily History Picture: Drinking October 9, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Drinking

    Love the eyes.

    Daily History Picture: Benign Swastikas October 6, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Benign Swastikas

    Edmonton, Canada, ice hockey team: before the Nazis dishonoured the swastika.

    Daily History Picture: Dunkirk Evac October 5, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Dunkirk Evac

    Notice the captured German helmet.

    Daily History Picture: Train Fairies October 4, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Train Fairies

    This is from Andrews, Ulster Folklore.

    Daily History Picture: Remembering Cats October 3, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Remembering Cats

    Loved this, remembering a cat.

    Daily History Picture: Death of Cornish October 2, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Death of Cornish

    A tragic map: it was all over by 1800, pace Cornish nationalists…

    Daily History Picture: Young Clintons September 29, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Young Clintons

    The cool kids at Yale

    Daily History Picture: The Senate September 28, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: The Senate

    Cicero speaks against Catiline.

    Daily History Picture: Decapitation September 27, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Decapitation

    Cicero, looking strangely like a monk, dies.

    Daily History Picture: Early Fairy Wings September 26, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Early Fairy Wings

    Actually a sylph, but 1714

    Daily History Picture: Anti-Fascist Lecturer September 25, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Anti-Fascist Lecturer

    Charlotte Despard in 1933, veteran of the anti-suffragette movement, taking on new enemies.

    Daily History Picture: Burning Money September 22, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Burning Money

    German inflation crisis.