Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 311, click here.
1. Former president Andrew Jackson aged 78, one of the few existing photographs of him, taken in 1845, the year he died.
2. Miners in the Serra Pelada gold mines in Brazil, the 1980s.
3. Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler on a visit to the Dachau concentration camp with his 12-year-old daughter Gudrun, Nazi Germany, 1941.
4. Martin Luther King Jr. removing a burnt cross from his front yard in 1960.
5. Textile worker, taken by Nikolay Matorin, USSR, c. 1960.
6. Sailors saluting a war veteran, Leningrad, 1989.
7. Joe DiMaggio at Marilyn Monroe’s funeral, 1962.
8. Mom kisses her son goodbye before his departure for volunteer work in Germany, Belgium, 1943.
9. East German border guard, Conrad Schumann, defecting to West Berlin in 1961.
10. Green Line demarcation zone in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, 1982.
