Chooeubhaokhaossian the Great's Temple of History

Historical photographs uploaded regularly. Specializing in animating stereoscopic images and finding very rare images in good quality. My blog contains many animated stereoscopic photographs that tumblr will not let me upload here for some reason: http://chubachus.blogspot.com/ My youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/Chubachus hit counter

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“Battle of Bailleul. Men of the Middlesex Regiment holding a street barricade in Bailleul, 15 April 1918, just before the fall of the town.“ Taken by photographer John Warwick Brooke.

Source: Imperial War Museum.

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A collection of photographs of Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), and the Potomac River taken between 1859 and 1861. These are some of the earliest photographs taken in Harpers Ferry. The photos were published by Edward Anthony and the New York Stereoscopic Company.

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A collection of early Kodak snapshots of western Florida taken by amateur photographer Joseph John Kirkbride in 1889 and 1890.

Source: Library of Congress.

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“Battle of Pozieres Ridge. Troops of the 1st Australian Division (1st ANZAC Corps), some wearing German helmets, photographed between La Boisselle and Pozieres on their return from the taking of Pozieres, 23 July 1916.” By John Warwick Brooke.

Source: Imperial War Museum.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a sailor smoking a pipe in Cairo, Egypt, taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, c. 1843-1844.

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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Portrait of five members of the Virginia Military Institute Gymnasium Club from the 1885 edition of VMI’s yearbook named The Bomb.

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Carte de visite portrait of Louisa Edwardes by French photographer Camille Silvy, c. 1861.

Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Carte de visite portrait of an unidentified woman in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, taken by German photographer Albert Greiner, c. 1863-1866.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

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Stereoview portrait of a group posing on a bridge or pier in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 1860. By photography firm Osborn and Durbec.

Source: Library of Congress.

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A collection of mugshots of people arrested for various crimes in San Francisco, California, in 1902.

Source: Sacramento Police Department.

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Portrait of people posing in the H. Moschke Ltd. store in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), South Africa, c. 1900-1910. Published by Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: Library of Congress.

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Portrait of a group of deer hunters posing on a hillside in Glenfeshie, Scotland, c. 1858. Taken by Scottish photographer Horatio Ross.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Portrait of a young woman identified as Miss Jeanne taken by Belgian photographer Louis Pierre Theophile Dubois de Nehaut, c. 1854-1856.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Portrait of a woman spinning wool somewhere in Algeria, c. 1870-1900. Published by French photography firm Neurdein Brothers.

Source: Library of Congress.

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Daguerreotype portrait of two men posing with the grave of Solomon Harthorn somewhere in California, c. 1853.

Source: Sotheby’s.

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“The Kaiser, on horseback, photographed smiling and surrounded by his men during the manoeuvres of 1905. This photograph subsequently became a popular propaganda image, identifying the Kaiser with the common soldier.”

Source: Imperial War Museum.

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Carte de visite portrait of Jane Kettle by photographer J.W. Gilmor of Colchester, England, July 1864.

Source: Rijksmuseum.