Jefferson Shields, former body servant and Confederate veteran who fought in the Stonewall Brigade during the Civil War, c. 1910s. He attended many Confederate reunions and was buried with a military grave marker that reads "Jefferson Shields, Pvt. Co. H 27th Va. Inf., Stonewall Brigade, Confederate States Army".

Girl Scouts placing flags by the graves of US soldiers, 1970s

A military funeral for a US soldier in Alaska, WWII

Relief depicting Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in a war chariot, c. 7th century BC.

British soldiers of the Grenadier Guards Regiment, 1850s

A gathering inside a Kau longhouse, Papua New Guinea, c. 1920-1930s

A lady in a field of flowers, c. 1900-1910s, original autochrome colour photo

Children playing hopscotch, London, 1957

29 May 1453: Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, falls to the Ottoman Turks under Mehmed II after a 53 day siege. The fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire, and effectively the end of the Roman Empire, a state which dated back to 27 BC and lasted nearly 1,500 years.
Painting above is “The last siege of Constantinople”, a French miniature by Jean Le Tavernier around 1455.

Swedish children play music at a festival, 1950s

Wounded British prisoner supported by two German soldiers, 1917

Polish-American parade in Chicago, May 1942 (kodachrome)

🇭🇺 A young Hungarian woman in folk dress, early 1900s

A Jewish rabbi from Jerusalem, c. 1900

Abraham Lincoln, May 1860

A priest on the road near Konitsa, Greece, 1913

Fresco from Pompeii depicting a Roman dinner party, 1st century AD. In the lower left a small slave boy in a white tunic helps the master with his shoes; the slave in the center offers him a drink; and another slave supports a vomiting guest who has overindulged.

English actress and singer Lily Elsie, c. 1910s