Donald Manson, ice master and whaling captain, photographed on the sloop Phoenix off the coast of Greenland, 1854 [800×603] 2 Comments Vintage Source
1893 Chicago World’s Fair, lighting by Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, photo by William Henry Jackson, from the Field Museum archive [1000×786] Comment Vintage Source
Partisan before hanging out of the Nazis shouting:”Death to fascism,freedom to people” (“Smrt fašizmu,sloboda narodu”) 1944 [1200×850] Comment Vintage Source
A peasant reads the official newspaper of the marxist organization Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria in a shanty town near Saavedra, Chile, 1971.[1053×704] Comment Vintage Source
On this day, the Battle of Stalingrad ended with the German 6th Army surrendering to the Red Army. Resulting in the total destruction of the 6th Army. Only about 5,000 German soldiers returned to Germany after the war. February 2, 1943 [974 x 506] 3 Comments Vintage Source
Mt. Vesuvius in its worst eruption in 72 years. A giant canopy of smoke dominates the country side for miles. March 18, 1944. [2700 x 2152] Comment Vintage Source
