Vintage

Historical photographs and pictures taken in the context of a verifiable, historically significant event.

Two German brothers that were separated by the Berlin Wall reunite in December 1963 so they can celebrate Christmas together due to the Border Pass Agreement. Photograph taken in East Berlin. [980 x 552]

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80 years ago: Kristalnacht, or The Night of Broken Glass: Worker clearing broken glass at a Jewish store following the anti-Jewish riots of Kristallnacht in Berlin, November 1938. [860 x 680]

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A squadron of Australian infantrymen with their gas-masks equipped at the Third Battle of Ypres, September 1917. Raging for over three months long, the battle would claim close to one million casualties by its end. [800×1071]

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100 years ago: Street scene in Antwerp, Belgium, showing citizens turning out for celebration a few hours after the Germans surrendered and an end of World War I. 11th November 1918 [1509 x 1050]

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Pablo Escobar during his family visit in Disney world 1981 [1000 x 750]

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Captain Nieves Fernandez, a Filipino resistance leader and former school teacher, shows to an American soldier how she used her “bolo” to silently kill Japanese soldiers during occupation (1944) [1200×920]

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