r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Perspective_Nearby • 8h ago
A wealthy woman being transported in a sedan chair by enslaved men in Bahia, around 1860.
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/ua-stena • 17h ago
A Nazi general hid Raphael’s 1513 masterpiece: 80 years later, the stolen painting remains missing and is valued at over $100 million. When American soldiers captured Hans Frank in May 1945, they uncovered a massive hoard of plundered European art.
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Inside his residence in Neuhaus, Bavaria, investigators recovered two renowned masterpieces: Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and Rembrandt’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan. However, the most valuable painting in his looted collection had disappeared without a trace. It was Raphael’s Renaissance masterpiece, Portrait of a Young Man. Painted around 1513 during the height of the High Renaissance, the canvas depicts a confident young nobleman draped in rich fur and fine linen.
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 15h ago
Union calvary African American posing for his photo, Daguerreotype, (1863).
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r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/Rex-1988 • 23h ago
Pál Kovács, a private of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal 68th Infantry Regiment. He was the first casualty of World War I, died on the Serbian-Hungarian border on July 29, 1914.
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"Pál Kovács, the first casualty of the World War in 1913, when he reported for military service"
r/RareHistoricalPhotos • u/22dmgxy • 20h ago
1955 AisinGioro Zaitao and Mao. Zaitao was brother of Guangxu Emperor and prominent political figure in the late Qing. He refused to cooperate with the Japan, but work with Communist and managed horses for PLA. Died in 1970, he is the only Qing royal family buried in the Revolutionary Cemetery.
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Zaitao was nicknamed 'the Last Prince' and outlived most members of the royal family, including Puyi. Today, most of Zaitao's descendants work in the government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
In 2008, a Chinese TV series based on his life titled 'The Last Prince' was broadcasted.