Category Archives: event & history
Fascinating Story Behind the Last Photo of the Titanic Before the Sinking, April 1912
Rare Color Photographs Capture Daily Life in the First Nazi Concentration Camps in 1933
54 Poignant Photos of the Battle Of The Bulge, 1944-1945
The Earliest Photographs of a Total Solar Eclipse, 1854
Little Curies: Marie Curie and Her X-Ray Vehicles’ Contribution to World War I Battlefield Medicine
Pictures of the House of David, the All-Bearded Baseball Team, From the Early 20th Century
Portraits of Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey
The First Fake Photograph: Abraham Lincoln’s Head on John Calhoun’s Body, ca. 1860s
The Only Known Color Photograph of Britain’s King Edward VII
Here is the only known color photograph of Britain’s King Edward VII. Found in April 2009 in a cupboard in Exbury, this informal portrait, which shows the monarch dressed in a kilt and full highland costume, was taken a century earlier in September 1909. The photographer was Lionel de Rothschild, a banker and Conservative MP,Continue reading “The Only Known Color Photograph of Britain’s King Edward VII”
