The Twentieth Century

“Standing Tall Amid the Glares” by Paul Schutzer.

Lewis Cousins, age 15, the only African American student in the newly desegregated Maury High School, standing alone. 1959, Norfolk, VA

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Crewmen watch the USS Mississinewa sink after taking a hit from a Japanese torpedo. Ulithi, 1944. 

Simon Harris

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“Medford, Massachusetts, Fall 1978. Misty; wet; the smell of wet leaves and the quiet. From a Kodachrome slide I took with a Nikon FM camera.” (via)

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Saint-Lô in ruins, in August 1944. (via)

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“A French pilot makes an emergency landing [….] after a failed attack on German Zeppelin hangars near Brussels, 1915.” (Nationaal Archief) 

A glass negative of Berlin during the declaration of war c.1914

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A U.S. soldier looks up at the ruins of Hitler’s Berghof, which was bombed in an air raid on April 25, 1945.

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