Historical events Archive
Escort Carrier HMS Searcher ploughing through rough Atlantic weather 1943 – precarious F4F Wildcat on deck.
Children in Mississippi in the midst of the Great Depression.
Opole Lubelskie, Poland, A Jewish family which was deported from Wien, Austria to this town on February 1941.
Children assembling some PPD-40 sub-machine guns in the Soviet Union. WW II
Madrid, Spain, 1945
Yugoslavian actress in front of Belgrade Parliament building, 1960
An Albanian boy carries a rifle as he flees to Yugoslavia with his mother after the Italian invasion of Albania, 1939
‘Ladies of the Palace’ photographed by Frank Carpenter and his daughter Frances. The picture shows the rich detail of court fashion during the last years of the Manchu Qing …
Women of the Spanish Republican Militia during the Spanish Civil War