History Pictory

A hand curated selection of history's most spectacular photos.

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The Hindenburg as it crashed.

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Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E3, 1940 #WWII

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A woman hitting a neo-Nazi with her handbag, 1985

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Berlin at the end of the War, 1945 #WWII

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The ruins of Dresden, 1945 #WWII

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Simone Segouin, the 18 year old French Résistance fighter, 1944 #WWII

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A woman who survived in Nagasaki, 1945. #WWII #Nagasaki

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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

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Children playing with stacks of hyperinflated currency during the Weimar Republic, 1922 #MonopolyMoney

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A Jewish woman who is concealing her face sits on a park bench marked “Only for Jews”, Austria, 1938 #WWII

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Audrey Hepburn Shopping With Her Pet Deer "Ip" In Beverly Hills, Ca, 1958

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Kodiak Alaska, circal early 1900s

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A blind man tests a device to be able to hear sound, 1912.

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Reichserntedankfest rally (Thanksgiving Celebration of the Reich), 1934

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A German soldier shares his rations with a Russian mother, 1941 #WWII

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German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945 #WWII

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Woodberry Forest. Gym Students, early 1900s

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An elongated head was an ideal of beauty among the Mangbetu people, 1930 #Congo

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U-118, a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, England #WWI

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Hats in New York, 1930 #NYC