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: Experimental Weapon in Detroit February 13, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Experimental torpedo boat on Detroit river, 1940
Daily History Picture: Bombed Out Dresden February 12, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Looking down at destroyed Dresden, after the allied occupation
Daily History Picture: Dividing Germany February 11, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
German propaganda poster about what the allies would do should they win the Great War: it may have been wise…
Daily History Picture: Bear Bite Magic February 10, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Gypsy ceremony to ward off bear bite in Romania
Daily History Picture: An American Welcome February 9, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Dated to 1923 (1943?? see below), white angst in (West Coast?) America 10 Feb 2015: Leif writes ‘The photograph is from 1942 or 1943, not 1923. What is a poorly dressed woman doing with a professionally painted sign on her house? In the prewar era a woman would wear nice clothes for a photograph, assuming […]
Daily History Picture: Goodbye at the Wall February 5, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Crying woman says goodbye to a small boy at the point where the Berlin Wall is about to be built: 1961.
Daily History Picture: Medieval Monkeys Again February 4, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
This time making vellum? Source
Daily History Picture: IRA Stop and Search February 3, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The six counties, probably Belfast, two IRA women privates stop and search a man
Daily History Picture: Snail City January 30, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
I have no idea….
Daily History Picture: Bang Goes the Hindenburg January 29, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The Hindenburg comes crashing to earth, 1937… 36 died
Daily History Picture: Helen and Charlie January 28, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Helen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin
Daily History Picture: Snail Fighting January 18, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Against the snail hordes…
Daily History Picture: Defeat January 16, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
French girl inspects a German soldier
Daily History Picture: The Archduke’s Last Hour January 15, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Franz Ferdinand just before his death
Daily History Picture: Party Time in the Middle Ages January 14, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Hard drinking and, of course, vomit
