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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: Into Hell May 27, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Into Hell

    New arrivals brought on down…

    Daily History Picture: Mickey Mouse Club May 26, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Mickey Mouse Club

    When Mickey ruled: the 1930s.  

    Daily History Picture: WW1 Crater May 25, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: WW1 Crater

    This picture is from Messines, Flanders, 1917. A massive crater created by 19 British mines under German positions. ‘The Image Works’. The blast was allegedly heard in London: memories of the audible Somme bombardment.

    Daily History Picture: Family Murdered May 24, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Family Murdered

    Killing the brothers one by one: disturbing middle ages.

    Daily History Picture: Medieval Mind May 21, 2015

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

    The Gothic brain mapped

    Daily History Picture: McCartney and Jagger May 20, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: McCartney and Jagger

      Nice meets nasty in a train cab.

    Daily History Picture: Murder in the Caribbean May 19, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Murder in the Caribbean

    Picture based on De la Casas the first anti-colonial text.

    Daily History Picture: Married Couple and Baby May 18, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Married Couple and Baby

    Married couple lie back and the aupair rocks the cradle.

    Daily History Picture: Young Marilyn Monroe May 17, 2015

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

    24 years old, on war work in 1944: four years from breakthrough.  

    Daily History Picture: Hellish Castles May 16, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Hellish Castles

    Demons in control of the fort, medieval equivalent of the patients taking over the asylum.

    Daily History Picture: Many Handed One May 15, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Many Handed One

    This is apparently Fortune (see the text) and Fortune (as well as being great in bed) is supposed to be blindfolded (along with Justice and Synagogue), but why the many hands…?

    Daily History Picture: Blitzed Roof May 14, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Blitzed Roof

    Cockney family hanging out the linen in a destroyed upper room: bombed out London, WW2.

    Daily History Picture: Golden Gate Bridge Opens May 12, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Golden Gate Bridge Opens

    1937 the Golden Gate Bridge opens and pedestrians get to enjoy themselves before the cars arrive.

    Daily History Picture: Wilbur Flies Around Liberty May 11, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Wilbur Flies Around Liberty

    29 Sept 1909 Wilbur Wright takes a breeze around the Statue of Liberty. Note the human ants at the bottom, looking up.

    Daily History Picture: Germany Quits May 10, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Germany Quits

    Amazing photograph, first publication thanks to Leif. ‘Burtonwood US Army Air Force Base, Cheshire, England on 8 May 1945. The newspaper is the ‘Stars and Stripes’, published by the US Army.’