About the Pictures
Statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in Berlin. © zitty, Foto: Detlef Maugsch, Montage: Wolfgang Ruegner
Chechen woman and child, Kazakhastan, personal collection of Dr. Michaela Pohl.
Ste. Jeanne d'Arc, Painting, c.1485. This is a medieval artist's idea of her appearance; no verified image of Joan of Arc survives. Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490.
Portrait of Tishcohan, Delaware chief, by Gustavas Hesselius, 1735; used by permission of the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia.
Literacy volunteer from Havana heads into the countryside to teach. Photo by Roberto Salas, Camaguey, Cuba, 1961. From Fidel's Cuba: A Revolution in Pictures, Beyond Words Publishing, used by permission.
Half Dome at Yosemite, Southern Pacific Railroad poster, courtesy the online project "The West in Railroad Advertising, 1883-1911," Joshua Scott Johns, XRoads website, American Studies, University of Virginia, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/RAILROAD/adverts1.html
Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797--frontispiece from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself; it is in the public domain through Project Gutenberg and many other sources.
John and Emmie Younghusband (Emmie is not visible), India, Younghusband Collection: "Recollections of Our Indian Life", Mss Eur F197(37), OIOC, British Library; used by permission.
A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration. Arlington, Virginia, USA - National Archives Record Group 111. Series: Color Photographs of Signal Corps Activity, 1944 - 1981. (111-CC-46331) VENDOR # 139.ARC# 594360 - October 21, 1967 - By S.Sgt. Albert R. Simpson. Department of Defense. From Wikimedia Commons
Sutematsu (Yamakawa) Oyama, Vassar Class of 1882, the first Japanese woman to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree; Vassar College Archives, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College.