A boy starting training on two young calves, c. 1907

Representative U.S., Indian, French, Italian, British, German, Austro-Hungarian and Japanese military and naval personnel in the Allied forces during the Boxer Rebellion in China, c. 1900

Expulsion of Poles from Czerniejewo in 1939. During WWII there was a massive operation consisting of the forced resettlement of over 1.7 million Poles from the territories of German-occupied Poland between 1939 and 1944.
The German Government had plans for the extensive colonisation of territories of occupied Poland, which were annexed directly into Nazi Germany in 1939. The region was to become a "purely German area".

Men having a drink at the Toll Gate Saloon in Black Hawk, Colorado, 1897.

The Qianlong Emperor of China in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione, mid 18th century

US Lieutenant Woody J. Cochran, a Cherokee Indian and bomber pilot, holding up a captured Japanese flag and Nambu pistol during the New Guinea campaign, April 1943.

New Luther Church, Kassel, Germany, 1890s (photochrome)

Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from a death train near the Elbe. Photograph by Major Clarence L. Benjamin. Germany, April 1945.

An American soldier and his English girlfriend walk past sheep in Kensington Gardens, London, 1945

🇯🇵 On a path in rural Japan, c. 1890s

In 1943 German anti-aircraft batteries were ordered to fire on 200 Luftwaffe planes observed flying over Berlin during the night which had been mistaken for British bombers that had become detached from the concurrent major air raid on Peenemunde (Operation Hydra). The responsible Luftwaffe general, Hans Jeschonnek (picture above, center), subsequently committed suicide after discovering they had shot down German planes in this friendly fire incident.

Arthur Tien Chin, a pilot from the United States who participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War. When Japan invaded China, Chin became part of the first group of U.S. volunteer combat aviators. Chin is recognized as the United States' first flying ace in World War II.

Ruins of Richmond, Virginia, the capitol of the Confederacy, following bombing by invading Northern forces, 1865

Philip IV of Spain, who ruled from 1621 - 1665. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts and his rule over Spain during the Thirty Years' War.

🇬🇧 Early morning rush hour traffic crossing London Bridge in 1933.

A woman stands amidst ancient ruins at the Temple of Luxor in Egypt, c. 1900-1920s

🇷🇸 A Serbian village, 1920s

🇨🇭 Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, 1920s

🇩🇰 Danish position on the southern outskirts of Åbenrå on the morning of 9 April 1940, when the German army invaded Denmark.

Hitler Youth read from Mein Kampf, c. 1930s