Arrow Collar: Illustrations by J.C Leyendecker, 1910s (via rompedas)
There were two Popes at this time (as if one were not enough!), and their quarrels involved Europe in a great deal of trouble.
—Charles Dickens, A Child’s History of England.
“Student soldiers initiating the new recruit.” 1916-1918. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
From: The University of Wisconsin Archives
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
—Alexis de Tocqueville
Buster Keaton, 1931, photo by George Hurrell
“Soldiers from the U.S 2nd Armored Division handle a German MP40 near a Kübelwagen. A captive soldier sits inside.”
From: Photos Normandie
State Solo Ensemble Music Festival, May 14, 1955. Madison, Wisconsin.
From: The University of Wisconsin Archives
Four women seated on the steps of a building at Atlanta University, Georgia. 1899.
From: The Library of Congress
A woman waters her balcony garden, a matter of survival in the starving city of Berlin; summer of 1945. (via)
Every episode of Game of Thrones that doesn’t involve Joffrey dying is a bit of a disappointment.
A couple walks down Dircksenstr, in the center of Berlin. The burning building behind them was nothing special in the chaotic days at the end of the war. (via)
Boredom+photoshop
Why is this featured in the history tag? We really need some new editors.
Seriously wounded German prisoner of war is brought aboard an English warship on a stretcher in Oostende. Belgium, 1914.
From: The Dutch National Archives
“Two soldiers gather up their baggage as transportation arrives to take them to their outfit on Guam. Another soldier sits disconsolately awaiting further orders of transportation.” August 4, 1945.
From: The National Archives
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1917.
