
Etiket: Photos
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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)

![Nuns peed on by dog (with a dirty habit) on their tunics in Madrid (…Photographer is going to hell for not saying anything); Photo: Keystone Photos Agency; Spain – Madrid, 1960 [720×917]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/5k132lxdom1h1.jpeg)
![One of the last known photos of Vladimir Lenin, taken in the summer of 1923 after his third stroke. The USSR banned this photo for years to hide his deteriorating health.[744×1000]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/aucck2ddyp1h1.jpeg)





![Photos from the last Romanov costume ball held at Winter Palace in 1903. It was held in the in two stages, on February 11 and 13 [1200×900]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/6g8rxed1gzsg1-scaled.jpeg)





![Old photos of Maphoon, a man with hypertrichosis, and his son. Yangon, Myanmar, 1867 [2550×2400]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/0ptj151g06ug1.jpeg)


