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: British Nurse October 24, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Anna Spafford British nurse in Jerusalem?
Daily History Picture: Twain and Tesla October 23, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Perhaps the best photograph of Mark Twain. Casting spells in Tesla’s lab…
Daily History Picture: Manchester Postmen October 22, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Manchester postmen in 1894, sorting the post for their walks
Daily History Picture: Say it with Flowers at the Pentagon October 21, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
1967 flower protest at the Pentagon
Daily History Picture: Disney Meal October 20, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Disneyland cafeteria 1961
Daily History Picture: The Misery of War October 19, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Summary justice on the battlefield, the hanging tree.
Daily History Picture: Founding Father Pinup October 17, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The founding fathers as bikini models
Daily History Picture: Aztec Warriors October 16, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Aztec warriors from the Codex Mendoza
Daily History Picture: Cat Plays Lute October 15, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Late medieval French book of hours
Daily History Picture: Being Sick in the Middle Ages October 14, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The earliest image of vomit?
Daily History Picture: Lights Up At Nuremburg October 13, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The Nazi faithful salute the fuhrer at Nuremberg.
Daily History Picture: Evacuating Saigon October 12, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The last helicopter leaves Saigon: the US ‘occupation’ is over; the hell of war is over, a new hell awaits the inhabitants…
Daily History Picture: Bison Skulls October 10, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Manifest destiny: US hunters have wiped out the most important inhabitants of the west, the buffalo
Daily History Picture: Assault in Mississipi October 9, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
One of the most famous images from the Civil Rights movement. As always with these shots, it is the grinning buffoons who make it. Memories of a bully crowds post.
Daily History Picture: The Owl and the Magpie October 8, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The owl and the magpie in a luscious medieval miniature. What about the other birds? what is the parable here?
