NoShitBlog / History

The past is
never far away.

People, places, and moments worth remembering. Explore historical photographs and stories from the world before ours.

Browse the journal

People & portraits Places & cultures Moments & memories

From the archive

6,776 posts / Page 292

Three International Women - This stunning photo is of three women at the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia in October 10, 1885.

Archive / 5821Added Aug 11, 2023

Three International Women - This stunning photo is of three women at the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia in October 10, 1885.

Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Combined Circus: Congress of Freaks, 1924

Archive / 5822Added Aug 11, 2023

Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Combined Circus: Congress of Freaks, 1924

View of shelves of glass jars at Tu Du Hospital which contain foetuses deformed as a result of the United States' herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War. The US Army sprayed an estimate of 19 million gallons of defoliants and herbicides (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 1995)

Archive / 5823Added Aug 11, 2023

View of shelves of glass jars at Tu Du Hospital which contain foetuses deformed as a result of the United States' herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War. The US Army sprayed an estimate of 19 million gallons of defoliants and herbicides (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 1995)

Actress Helen Mirren, 1975. Colorized.

Archive / 5824Added Aug 10, 2023

Actress Helen Mirren, 1975. Colorized.

The head of Berlin's Lenin Monument being removed, November 1991.

Archive / 5825Added Aug 10, 2023

The head of Berlin's Lenin Monument being removed, November 1991.

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended in mid-November, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed.

Archive / 5826Added Aug 10, 2023

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended in mid-November, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed.

Filthy Thirteen member Clarence Ware applies war paint to Charles Plauda, June 5, 1944. The idea was McNiece's, to honor his Native American heritage and to energize the men for the danger ahead.

Archive / 5827Added Aug 10, 2023

Filthy Thirteen member Clarence Ware applies war paint to Charles Plauda, June 5, 1944. The idea was McNiece's, to honor his Native American heritage and to energize the men for the danger ahead.

The Raid on Sidi Haneish Airfield was a military operation carried out the night of 26 July 1942. A British Special Air Service unit commanded by Major David Stirling attacked a German-held airfield in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of Second World War.

Archive / 5828Added Aug 9, 2023

The Raid on Sidi Haneish Airfield was a military operation carried out the night of 26 July 1942. A British Special Air Service unit commanded by Major David Stirling attacked a German-held airfield in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of Second World War.

Surrender of General Bor Komorowski , Head of the Warsaw Uprising, to German forces on 4th October 1944

Archive / 5829Added Aug 9, 2023

Surrender of General Bor Komorowski , Head of the Warsaw Uprising, to German forces on 4th October 1944

Princess Elizabeth working as a mechanic in 1945 (318 x 282)

Archive / 5830Added Aug 9, 2023

Princess Elizabeth working as a mechanic in 1945 (318 x 282)

Jack Pinches worked as a beer carrier at Round Oak Steel works in the 1950s. His job was to fetch beer to keep the workers rehydrated. Dudley, England. (459x475)

Archive / 5831Added Aug 9, 2023

Jack Pinches worked as a beer carrier at Round Oak Steel works in the 1950s. His job was to fetch beer to keep the workers rehydrated. Dudley, England. (459x475)

An employee of Netherland Indies Gas Company welcoming a customer. 1932. (1080 x 1350).

Archive / 5832Added Aug 8, 2023

An employee of Netherland Indies Gas Company welcoming a customer. 1932. (1080 x 1350).

'After party, soiree aux salon de Paris.' Photographed in 1860. (500×514)

Archive / 5833Added Aug 8, 2023

'After party, soiree aux salon de Paris.' Photographed in 1860. (500×514)

Women selling Irish Lace aboard the Titanic, April 11, 1912.

Archive / 5834Added Aug 8, 2023

Women selling Irish Lace aboard the Titanic, April 11, 1912.

Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell—on North Carolina Jan. 24 1961 144x144

Archive / 5835Added Aug 8, 2023

Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell—on North Carolina Jan. 24 1961 144x144

PFC Knappenberger a "one-man army." 1st Feb 1944

Archive / 5836Added Aug 7, 2023

PFC Knappenberger a "one-man army." 1st Feb 1944

Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl and his raft 'Kon-Tiki' crossing the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl built the boat and sailed it from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days, thus demonstrating that trips of that magnitude were within the realm of possibility for prehistoric peoples (1947)

Archive / 5837Added Aug 7, 2023

Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl and his raft 'Kon-Tiki' crossing the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl built the boat and sailed it from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days, thus demonstrating that trips of that magnitude were within the realm of possibility for prehistoric peoples (1947)

Members of the Ukrainian Army’s 19th NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) Battalion practice decontamination skills at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. 3 August 2003

Archive / 5838Added Aug 7, 2023

Members of the Ukrainian Army’s 19th NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) Battalion practice decontamination skills at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. 3 August 2003

King Saud of Saudi Arabia on state visit to the USA. 1962

Archive / 5839Added Aug 7, 2023

King Saud of Saudi Arabia on state visit to the USA. 1962

Kurdish women in eastern Kurdistan - 1970

Archive / 5840Added Aug 7, 2023

Kurdish women in eastern Kurdistan - 1970