🇸🇪 Midsummer celebrations in Sweden, June 1905

🇮🇹 WWI Italian ace pilot Francesco Baracca (34 confirmed victories) in front of his SPAD XIII. He was Italy's top fighter ace of WWI until he was shot down by an Austrian plane in June 1918.

In a field of summer flowers, c. 1910-1920s

A man in traditional clothing in Kestri, Greece, in 1912. Original autochrome colour photo

🇫🇷 A father going for a walk with his son in a little airplane, France, 1930s

Pfc. Robert Leigh with enemy weapons taken from the Germans by the US 83rd Infantry Division during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, WWII (Colourised)

🇬🇧 An air raid warden surveys the skies above London during the Blitz, with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background

Relief depicting Assyrian bowmen, from a wall in the palace of Nimrud, 8th century BC.

A wedding party in Hardanger, Norway, 1890s

🇮🇹 On the road to Tivoli, Italy, c. 1900

Boer soldiers during the Second Boer War in South Africa, c. 1900.

Two young Jewish girls playing with dolls in the Jewish Quarter of Antwerp, Belgium, 1937

🇺🇸 The streets of Boston outside of North Terminal Station, 1890s. (colourised)

Pawnee scouts, c. 1860s

Last moments before the execution of the Hungarian Fascist leader, Ferenc Szálasi, 1946

Relief showing the Sasanian King Shapur I on horseback, followed by his sons and nobles. Ruling from 240-270 AD, he waged wars with Rome, and in one campaign defeated and captured the Roman emperor, Valerian.

A man poses by a tipping Mayan stele Guatemala, c. 1900

The crew of the US Army 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division pose underneath their tank near the French town of Marigny, WWII (colourised)

Medieval illustration of King Béla IV of Hungary, who ruled between 1235 and 1270

Women and children doing forced labor in a gulag in Soviet Russia, 1932