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In the late 1800s, American and Swedish Christians moved to Jerusalem awaiting the Second Coming—but instead, they picked up cameras. Their photos of Bedouin life and Jerusalem streets became one of the most remarkable visual records of the Middle East in transition. It’s a huge archive. (1080×1278)


![Group of Afghan Soldiers ,1977. [1080×787]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/0l4yyr5h4fug1.jpeg)



![Sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd fitting a soldier with a restorative face mask during WWI. She set up her own studio in Paris and set to work sculpting new faces for those who had lost a piece of theirs in trench warfare. (1917) [1080×830]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/9yysakhwzcug1.jpeg)

![Photo of the Vatican Necropolis from 1950. The first modern excavations under St. Peter’s Basilica began in the 1940s, under Pope Pius XII, with the goal of locating St. Peter’s tomb. Several ancient mausoleum’s were discovered, the earliest dating to 100 AD [779 x 1000]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2awvg18kxcug1.jpeg)

![Brits celebrating Christmas in a deep-level bomb shelter in London. (1940) [1200×866]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/u3zdrgyssbug1.jpeg)

![B-17G ‘Wee Willie’ shot down in a sortie over a marshaling yard in Stendal, Germany. Of the crew of 9 only the pilot survived. April 8 1945. [800×528]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mc27c8cj6fug1.jpeg)



![Member of the Motorized Reserves of the Citizens’ Militia (ZOMO) standing guard during a football match between Legia Warsaw and Dynamo Tbilisi – in the Polish Army Stadium — in Warsaw, during the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners’ Cup on March 3rd, 1982. [534 x 349]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1lxnz479fiug1.jpeg)
