Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
Coming out of the Great Depression, the world faced another challenge in the 1940's: World War II. Although the war began in the 1930's, it expanded and gained in ferocity (and atrocities) in the 194...
From the Russian Empire through the current Russian Federation, browse family photos from the land of Russia.
Russia, with its roots in the medieval state of Kievan Rus, became powerful by the 1700s under leaders like Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. It expanded across Eurasia, becoming one of the lar...