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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: Medieval Autopsy July 10, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Medieval Autopsy

      Well, actually it is supposed to be Nero and his mother, but this could be the King in Camelot CSI.

    Daily History Picture: Eastern Fireworks July 9, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Eastern Fireworks

      The Mughal Emperor marries. Fireworks explode.

    Daily History Picture: Mourning for Lincoln July 8, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Mourning for Lincoln

    Lincoln is dead: a nation (or at least a good part of half of it) in black.    

    Daily History Picture: Riefenstahl’s Massacre Horror July 7, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Riefenstahl's Massacre Horror

    Leni Riefenstahl’s coming face to face with Nazi brutality as 22 Polish civilians butchered, 1939.

    Daily History Picture: The Devil Tempts Christ July 6, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: The Devil Tempts Christ

      the Devil carries (a plaster cast?) Christ away

    Daily History Picture: London Victorian Slum July 5, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: London Victorian Slum

    1868 the inhabitants of a London slum alley gather together for a portrait.  

    Daily History Picture: Unpacking Liberty July 2, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Unpacking Liberty

    On her way up…

    Daily History Picture: Mislanding June 30, 2015

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

    Plane comes down badly on aircraft carrier: did he survive?

    Daily History Picture: When the Bombs Drop June 29, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: When the Bombs Drop

      Rare shot of bombs coming down…  

    Daily History Picture: Lexington Planes June 28, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Lexington Planes

    Waiting to take off the USS Lexington…

    Daily History Picture: Paris Celebration 1919 June 26, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Paris Celebration 1919

      WW1 victory

    Daily History Picture: Village Cassino June 25, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Village Cassino

    Allied troops take the village of Cassino: the monastery remains…

    Daily History Picture: Execution and Decaptitation June 24, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Execution and Decaptitation

      The head a bit too small perhaps…

    Daily History Picture: Tsar Nicholas Has Fun June 23, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Tsar Nicholas Has Fun

    Tsar Nicholas with friend, flying? 1899

    Daily History Picture: Vietnam Orphans June 22, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Vietnam Orphans

    Vietnam babies being flown to the US…