Gallery of Historical[edit]
This page is a gallery of featured pictures that the community has chosen to be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons.
1600-1700[edit]
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman ("Starting for the Hunt") MET DP146442
1615 The Siege of Osaka Castle
1625 Justino de Nassau rindió la ciudad de Breda
1649-1653 Battle at Lanka, between the armies of Rama and the King of Lanka.
1665 Trade lodge of the VOC in Hooghly, Bengal
1692 Nicolas de Fer, map of Trier and surroundings
1700-1800[edit]
L'execution de Maximilien de Robespierre a la guillotine
1785 Thomas Rowlandson - Vaux-Hall - Dr. Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Mary Robinson, et al
1787 Stucco relief at the Palace, Maya ruins at Palenque.
1787 Constitution of the United States, page 1
14 juillet 1790 Fête de la Fédération au Champ de Mars
20 septembre 1792 Bataille de Valmy
1798 Gravure voorstellende de kapitein J.G. Stedman TMNo. 3728-544b-1 edit
Btv1b69449573 Defaites des Anglois à l'Ance de St Caste restored
The Naval Battle Near Ecnomus (256 BC)
1800-1850[edit]
L'Exécution de la Punition de Fouet et Negres ao Tronco by Jean-Baptiste Debret
1812 Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
1818 Declaration of Independence (Trumbull)
1822 Independence of Brazil
1826 View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
le 28 juillet 1830 la Révolution de Juillet
1839 Neuhauser Straße, Munich by Franz von Kobell and Carl August von Steinheil
1840 The Anti-Slavery Society Convention by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1840 Watercolor portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) Science & Society Picture Library By Alfred Edward Chalon
ca.1850 Unidentified woman - daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes
1850-1870 Palais de l'Industrie - Édouard Baldus
El Tres de Mayo, by Francisco de Goya, from Prado thin black margin
Korean art-Donggwoldo-Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung-Dong-A University-01
1850-1900[edit]
Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett - Heroes of the Crimean War - Joseph Numa, John Potter, and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards
1854 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1854-56 Family George V of Hanover
1855 Embarkation of sick persons at the harbor in Balaklava
1855 Cavalry at the battle of Balaklava
1855-1865 Admiral Farragut
December 16th, 1856 The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute
1856 Gustave Le Gray, Brig upon the Water
1859 Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, France
1859 Gustave Le Gray, Pavillon Mollien
ca.1860 Samurai with sword
1860 - 1865 David Dixon Porter
1860s Jacques Offenbach by Nadar
1862 Étienne Carjat, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire
1862 Centreville, VA, Quaker Guns in the fort on the heights
1862 William McIlvaine, The Chickahominy, Sumners Upper Bridge, American Civil War
September 17th, 1862 Battle of Antietam
November 29, 1863 Battle of Fort Sanders
November 30, 1864 Battle of Franklin
1864 Democratic presidential ticket
1864 Republican presidential ticket
1864 Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar
1864 Episode of the retreat from Dannevirke, 5 - 6 February 1864 - Battle of Sankelmark and Oeversee
1865 Lincoln assassination
ca. 1865 Charles Marville, Urinoir en ardoise à 3 stalles, Chaussée du Maine
ca. 1865 Charles Soulier, Panorama de Paris - Pris de la tour Saint Jacques
1865 Execution of Lincoln conspirators
1865 The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina
1865 The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina
1865 The burning of Columbia, South Carolina
1865 - 1880 John Lorimer Worden - Mathew Brady
1865-1880 William Tecumseh Sherman
1867-1899 Historical Panorama of Beirut
ca.1867 La Tour St. Jacques La Boucherie à Paris
1869 Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
1869 Union Pacific Railroad, Utah
1870 - 1880 President Rutherford Hayes
1871 Paris Town Hall, after the great fire of the Commune
1876 B'nai B'rith membership certificate
1877 Famine in India Natives Waiting for Relief in Bangalore
ca. 1878 Thomas Edison with phonograph
1880 Great presidential puzzle
ca.1882 Kingdavidkalakaua dust
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in the City of New York
1885 The premiére of Jules Massenet's Le Cid
1880-1890 Cane cutters in Jamaica
1886 Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine
1888 Construction of the Eiffel Tower
1889 Blind man carrying a paralysed man
1889 Sachsenhausen at the beginning of the 17th century
1899 - 1901 Boxer Rebellion
1890 Charles Gounod by Nadar
1890 Charcot Jean-Martin Gallica Nadar, French neurologist
between 1891 and 1914 La Belle Otero
ca. 1893 Ida B. Wells-Barnett
1893 Proclamation of the Brazilian Republic
1895 Train wreck at Montparnasse
1895 Espinasse père - Fonds Trutat
1897 Art Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1887 Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg
1899 Temple Square, Salt Lake City
1890-1900 Elderly Irish woman at a spinning wheel.
1890-1900 Royal Avenue, Belfast
1890-1905 Amsterdam Centraal Station
1891–1903 Horse market in Lorenzkirch
ca. 1899 Nikola Tesla, with his equipment, double exposure.
Thaddeus M. Fowler - Penn'a R.R. Car Shop's, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 1895
F.O.C. Darley and Alexander Hay Ritchie - Sherman's March to the Sea
Édouard Baldus, Pont Royal and Louvre - NYPL Digital Collections
Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuditta Ricordi, Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari, Giulio Ricordi, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1900) - Archivio storico Ricordi FOTO003107 - Restoration
1900-1910[edit]
Postkarte KG Heuschreck 1905
1900 - 1906 A Southern chain gang
ca.1910 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1900 Mulberry Street, NYC, USA
1900 Eastman Kodak HQ 1900
1900 Three Piegan (Blackfeet) chiefs
1901 Voltairine de Cleyre (Age 35)
1902 Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower
1903 Wright brothers' first flight.
c. 1904 C.M. Gilbert. - John Hay
ca.1905 COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM 'Het verslepen van de steen 'Darodaro' voor de gestorven Saoenigeho van Bawamataloea Nias TMnr 1000095b
1905 Night in Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y.
1905 The native mode of grinding coffee, Palestine.
1906 San Francisco Mission District burning
1906 Post-and-Grant-Avenue-Look
1907 George Foster Peabody
1907 The Steerage, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
1909 Manhattan Bridge Construction
ca.1910 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1910 A Brouhot car in Paris
1910-1920[edit]
Sleeping, homeless children - Jacob Riis
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, Leader of the Women's Suffragette movement, is arrested outside Buckingham Palace while trying to present a petition to King George V in May 1914. Q81486
1914-1918 Message by carrier pigeon
19 July 1916 British wounded Bernafay Wood
ca. 1911 Aviator Hélène Dutrieu seated in her airplane.
1898-1914 Costumes and characters, etc. Girls of Ramallah
ca. 1910 Mignon Nevada as "Ophelia".
1911 Russian Imperial Family
1914 The assassination of Archduke heir of Austria and of the Duchess his wife in Sarajewo
1914 - 1918 Das Motorrad mit den Skiern von der Seite
1909-1915 Early color photograph from Russia
1916 Cheshire Regiment trench Somme
1917 World War I era poster in Yiddish to encourage food conservation.
ca. 1918-1919 John Meintz, punished during World War I
Séeberger, Petites musiciennes de rue - CMN
George V and Nicholas II in Berlin, 1913
La chaleur à Paris, fillette prenant de l'eau à une borne-fontaine, 1921 - Gallica
1910-1920 - wide[edit]
before 1913 Dresden-Fuerstenzug4
1920-1930[edit]
1921 Nguyen Aïn Nuä'C (Ho-Chi-Minh)
1923 A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl, Hupa
1923 Auto wreck, Maryland, USA.
1923 Jean Cocteau b Meurisse
1924 Walter Johnson and Calvin Coolidge shake hands
1929 Portrait of two young Balinese dancers
1929 Inupiat Family from Noatak, Alaska - Edward S. Curtis
Agence Rol, 24.4.21, concours de machines - BnF
1930-1940[edit]
1936 Dust bowl, Texas Panhandle
1937 Metropolitan Opera House, a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann - NARA 541890 - Edit
1937 "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" - Dorothea Lange's photo of a Missouri family of five in the vicinity of Tracy, California
1940-1950[edit]
1940–1945 Douglas DC-3 of BOAC at Gibraltar
1940 Card puncher - NARA - 513295
1940 Soviet prisoners of war at Rovaniemi
1941 Maori Battalion performing a haka in Helwan, Egypt
1942 Infantryman with M1 Garand, Fort Knox, KY
1942 A package for Hitler 196462 edit
1942 Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse
1942 Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops
1942 Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company
1942 Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
1942 Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif.
1942 Assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company
1942 Assembling the North American B-25 Mitchell at Kansas City, Kansas (USA)
1942 Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac
1942 Shasta dam under construction, California.
1943 Japanese Family serving dinner to War Relocation Authorities at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, in their barracks home at Block 7 - 21.
1943 Rosie the Riveter (Vultee) DS
1943 Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in Tehran.
Unknown, before 1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff LOC 30160 cropped
1943 EnterpriseBurningHellcat
1943 Chicago Union Station
1943 Farm Workers at Manzanar Relocation Center, California (by A. Adams)
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1943 Gary Plant Tubular Steel Corporation
1944 General Douglas MacArthur
1944 General Douglas MacArthur at Leyte, Philippine Islands
1944 Into the Jaws of Death 23-0455M edit
1944 Crew of a Sherman-tank
1944 Patriots in the Champs Elysees
1944 witness of V2 damage on main intersection in Antwerp
1945 Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender
1945 USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes
1945 Attack on aircraft carrier USS Franklin
1945 Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar
1945 Buchenwald concentration camp
1945 Nagasaki before and after the atomic bombing
1945 Nagasaki temple destroyed
1945 Warning sign in Cologne
1945 Infantrymen move down a street in Waldenburg
1946 Operation Crossroads, Baker explosion, Micronesia
1946 Max Dupain - Adelaide
1948 Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
1949 William Grant Still by Carl Van Vechten
2Fi02473 Pont national US Army retouchée
1950-1960[edit]
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested for boycotting public transportation
Antonio Segni and Konrad Adenauer, August 1959
1960-1970[edit]
1960 Joseph Kittinger's record-breaking skydive from 102,800 feet
1961 Monument to Prussian army
1963 Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation
1963 Robert Kennedy CORE rally speech2
1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.)
1967 Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Soldiers Shower Near Eilat
1969 A girl holds The Washington Post of Monday
1960s or 1970s Saturn V and Wernher von Braun
1970-1980[edit]
1970 Presley, West and Schilling meeting Nixon
1971 Apollo 15 expedition to Moon
1973 Legal hashish-shop, Kathmandu (Nepal)
1980-1990[edit]
1982 Stefan Heym, by Marcel Antonisse
1989 Juggling on the Berlin Wall 1
1990-now[edit]
1994 King Hussein of Jordan lights P.M.Yitzhak Rabin's cigarette at royal residence in Akaba, shortly after signing the peace treaty at Arava border-crossing
1994 The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 (Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin) in Oslo
2001 September 11 World Trade Center attacks, New York
2001 Satellite view of September 11 World Trade Center attacks, New York
2001 Debris on surrounding roofs at the site of the World Trade Center on September 28.
2008 Riots after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, Sina Street - Faculty of law, Athens, Greece.
2009 Sydney Harbour Bridge during a red dust storm
2011 NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905 (front) and 911 (rear) flying in formation for the first time together.
2012 2012 inauguration of French President François Hollande.
2018 Isabella Lövin signing climate law referral.
2018 Penutupan Para Asian Games 2018.
2019 Spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames.
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