Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 177, click here.
1. US soldiers with a 1941 Mercedes-Benz 540K custom armor-reinforced “Special Roadster” thought to be Hermann Göring’s, 1945.
2. Tanks on the streets of Bucharest during the Romanian revolution, 1989.
3. A building in Belgrade burning after a NATO Bombing during the Kosovo War, 1999.
4. Texas schoolgirl receives typhoid vaccine, 1943.
5. Night fishing in Hawaii, 1948.
6. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin above El Paso, Texas, 1929.
7. Ruins after San Francisco Earthquake, 1906.
8. The Battle for Cable Street between the British Union of Fascists and various Anti-Fascist Groups, London, England, 4 October 1936.
9. A man in a cangue in Shanghai, c. 1870.
Photographed by John Thomson.
#9 Isn’t properly labeled. It is a swimmer getting ticketed somewhere in Europe for improper bathing attire. You’ve shared it before.