Archival photographs the most important events and famous people

A large collection of the most significant people and events that have contributed to the history of the world. Read more.

The Golden Age of Egyptology





Children on the streets of New York



Mountain bison skulls 1870



Tsar Nicholas II



Kaiser Wilhelm II



Flying an airplane "Kittyhawk" over Stonehenge



Samurai



Construction of the Tower Bridge in London



Group photo of circus "Barnum & Bailey"



Construction of the Eiffel Tower



Printing at the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun



The leader of the Sioux



Navajo Family



Russian serfs



Helena Blavatsky



Peter Kropotkin



John Browning



Witness the accident victim found in his wife



Shell-shocked soldiers of the First World War



Al Capone and his son



Presumably - iceberg, sinking "Titanic"



Surviving passengers of "Titanic"



No alcohol law. Barrels of alcohol prepared for burning



No alcohol law. The inscription on the poster: "Lips, touching alcohol, can not touch our lips"



Revolutionaries



Chaplin and Gandhi



Rabindranath Tagore



Ernest Hemingway



Rally in Nuremberg. Hitler ordered the use for lighting all AA batteries,
who could find to make a spectacular show



Hitler



Hitler and Mussolini



The boy runs to the front of the outgoing father, World War II



The French occupation



Mowing RAF pilot



Fountain Barmaley after the Battle of Stalingrad



Military action, World War II



The movement of troops, World War II



The cloud over Hiroshima



The Second World War



World color



Boeing B-29 - "Flying Fortress"



World color





Dresden after the bombing



The dead Japanese soldier



Japanese boy came to bury his younger brother



Soviet woman



Hitler's bunker



Hermann Goering



Last photo Himmler



Soviet soldiers celebrating victory



The Soviet flag over Berlin



Hiroshima



Nagasaki



The founder of the North Korean state, Kim Il Sung



Georgy Zhukov



The 1956 Hungarian revolution



Nuclear tests



Club "optimist"



Yuri Gagarin



Vietnam



Elvis in the Army



Kennedy and Johnson on the Cape Canaveral during the Cuban missile crisis



Self-immolation of the monk, Vietnam



Bombs with napalm, Vietnam



otografiya family astronaut left the moon



Castro at the Lincoln Memorial



South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan (famous for being shot
NLF guerrilla shot in front of the Western journalists)



Che Guevara



Iranian women on the eve of the revolution



Rare picture of "Tank Man", who at the time of student unrest in the area
Tiananmen Square in June 1989 alone restrained column of tanks for half an hour.



The destruction of the Berlin Wall



Computers from East Germany, 1987



Freddie Mercury and Elton John



British airborne special forces stormed the Iranian embassy



War correspondent in the firing line



Iraq



The first Chechen war



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