Historical Photos
Unknown shtetl child
Mounted Cossacks, mercenaries for Tsar Nicholas II, often participated in pogroms. Circa 1909.
Desecrated Torah scrolls in the aftermath of a pogrom.
Jewish refugees from pogrom violence.
A poster that appeared in England, after news of the 1905 Byelorus pogroms spread west.
Immigrants from Eastern Europe crowding the deck on an unidentified ship, circa 1909.
A detail from the ship photo.
“Arrival of Emigrants, Galveston, Tex” (circa 1909).
Longshoremen in the port of Galveston, Texas, unloading a banana boat, circa 1909.
Bananas being processed at the port of Galveston, circa 1909.