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Image credits: Historical Images The keeping of written history records appears relatively late, only 5,000 years ago in Egypt and ancient Sumer. Before that, knowledge about the past would be ...
Image credits: Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer. Before color photography could exist, scientists had to first understand how light and color actually work. The journey began in the 17th ...
As the Modern Museum of Art points out, photographs can help shape our understanding of different cultures, their history, and, most importantly, the people who appear in them. #4 American ...
Taken shortly before Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech. Widely used in his campaign during the 1860 presidential election, both Brady's photo and the speech helped him become president. [24] [s 2] [s 3] [s 5] Guardian Angel, One Person Praying: c. 1860 Unknown London, England, United Kingdom Albumen print [s 2] Boston, As the Eagle and the Wild ...
Other photographs are excerpts from larger historic collections, such as Roger Fenton's and Alexander Gardner's respective groundbreaking documentations of the Crimean War and American Civil War. Margin notes document the circumstantial background of many photographs, as well as instances where the images have been accused of being staged.
Image credits: history.season #43. 29 year old Pfc. Ivan Babcock of the US Army’s 165th Signal Photo Company poses with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave during WW2.
The museum archivists also found that many of the images had never been seen, even by themselves, as much of the digitisation process had been automated. As a result, the Never Been Seen tool was created, both to promote the collections of the group and to bring items to the public that had never before been displayed. [1] [2]
Image credits: History’s Mysteries Running a page with nearly 500K followers isn’t easy, though. “Researching all these historical facts and photos definitely takes time and effort ...