Images

A December 1941 photograph showing two German soldiers overlooking Sevastopol during the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 in the Second World War (1939-45). (Polish National Digital Archives)

A May 1942 photograph of Soviet anti-aircraft gunners of the Zheleznyakov armored train used during the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 in the Second World War (1939-45).

A 1944 photograph of a German Karl self-propelled mortar gun, a type used in several major battles during the Second World War (1939-45). The gun had a massive calibre of 600 mm (23 inches) and could fire 2.4-ton concrete-piercing shells.

A photograph of the German general Erich von Manstein (1887-1973), shown on the left, after the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 during the Second World War (1939-45). The port in the Crimea was captured by Axis forces commanded by Manstein...

A photograph taken in July 1942 showing the aftermath of the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 during the Second World War (1939-45). The port in the Crimea was captured by Axis forces in July 1942. The vehicle is a German Sdkfz 250 half-track...

Former slaves and abolitionists Ellen and William Craft, as pictured in The Liberator, the abolitionist newspaper.

Ellen Craft (l. 1826-1891) in her disguise as a Southern gentleman during the 1848 flight to freedom of Ellen and her husband William Craft (l. 1824-1900). The original image appeared as the frontspiece to their Running a Thousand Miles For...

Title page of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Frontspiece to Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773, by the artist Scipio Moorhead (active 1773-1775). Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

View of Bermuda from Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. Photograph by Michael A. Orlando, July 2015.