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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: Randy Nineteenth Century May 8, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Randy Nineteenth Century

    Not sure what this is about, but the image from 1835 is clearly slanderous…

    Daily History Picture: American Gothic Originals May 7, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: American Gothic Originals

    The models….

    Daily History Picture: Titanic Iceberg? May 6, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Titanic Iceberg?

    A myth? This photograph is supposed to be the iceberg that ‘did it’ to the Titanic. See the paint along the side… 25 May 2015: NH has strong feelings… Not, I suggest. This photograph was up for sale in 2012 It is similar but marked as taken from a different ship. The entry says there […]

    Daily History Picture: Bomb Berlin! May 5, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Bomb Berlin!

    British hoarding in central London 1940.  

    Daily History Picture: Mannerheim at Odessa April 30, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Mannerheim at Odessa

    The hero of Finland just as the revolution is beginning in his adopted homeland, Russia, recuperating at Odessa.

    Daily History Picture: Luxembourg Liberated April 29, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Luxembourg Liberated

    Allies arrive at the end of WW1 and the Grand Duchy tastes freedom for another twenty years.

    Daily History Picture: Medieval Golf April 28, 2015

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

    Late medieval manuscript (BM) showing what looks like golf.  

    Daily History Picture: Rolling Ball April 27, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Rolling Ball

    Loisset performs the ball trick at the Vauxhall Gardens

    Daily History Picture: Fish or Beast? April 26, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Fish or Beast?

    Beautiful fourteenth-century beaver: fish or animal?  

    Daily History Picture: Pinkerton, Lincoln and McClellan April 24, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Pinkerton, Lincoln and McClellan

    Three great Americans at Antietam  

    Daily History Picture: Liberation! April 23, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Liberation!

    De Gaulle drives into a free Paris

    Daily History Picture: Medieval Donuts? April 22, 2015

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

    I have no idea… Probably the artist didn’t either…

    Daily History Picture: Marco Pole En Route April 21, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Marco Pole En Route

    Fourteenth century illustration of Marco Polo’s travels…  

    Daily History Picture: Painting Virgins April 20, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Painting Virgins

    Beautiful late medieval painting of painting

    Daily History Picture: Yet More Monkeys April 19, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Yet More Monkeys

    Those damn medieval monkeys again. Why did they find them so fascinating?