Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 238, click here.
1. Protester Guy Burmieux encounters his childhood friend, policeman Jean-Yvon Antignac, on 6 April 1972.
2. African American flood victims line up to get food and clothing from a Red Cross relief station in front of the billboard ironically extolling WORLD’S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING THERE’S NO WAY LIKE THE AMERICAN WAY, 1940.
3. Ex-Soviet Navy sailor with his girlfriend.
Photo by Lucien Perkins, Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia, 1993.
4. Workers’ demonstration in Turin, 1976.
5. Workplace gymnastics, Ulyanovsk, USSR, 1981.
6. Chuck Berry and Carl Sagan celebrating the success of Voyager 2, 1989.
7. Seventeen-year-old student John Carter stands outside Clinton High School in Tennessee while holding a sign in protest of integration on 27 August 1956.
8. Crimean war soldiers serving in the 72nd Highlanders, 1854.
9. Soviet women pilots ‘ Night Witches’ of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, ca.1941.
10. Margaret Bourke – White: Hohenzollern Bridge, Cologne, Germany, 1945.
