Universal Images Group is privileged to represent the World History Archive (WHA) and its extensive collection of world history. WHA offers coverage from the beginning of time to present day and covers a range of historical and cultural subjects, from archaeology to zoology and everything in between.
Belshazzar’s Feast circa 1635. Painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669).
Photograph of RMS Titanic.
World War 1 Recruiting and enlistment poster, Great Britain 1914-1918.
Text of Emancipation Proclamation with two U.S. flags and eagle over head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln and flanked by allegorical figures of Justice and Liberty.
Michael Faraday (1731-1867).
Photograph of a meeting in Harlem with Fidel Castro (1926-) and Malcolm X (1925-1965). Dated 1960.
George Washington (1732-1799) with British soldiers at Yorktown.
Independence day military parade in Jerusalem, Israel.
WHA offers researchers access to the “Heritage of the Human Experience”. The WHA collection features extensive coverage of the Royals; British Commonwealth history; American history; fine art; inventors and their inventions; world leaders; current events (tomorrow’s history); science and medical history; archaeology; religious studies; propaganda and more. Their renowned world history collection features sub-specializations in Russian, India, Israeli, and Korean history and culture.
Gathering with Red Guards, Prime Minister Zhou Enlai of China with Jiang Qing.
Visit by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to Chairman Hua Guo Feng of China. Beijing, 1976.
Waterproof cycles with side doors in Paris. Newspaper report and photograph.
Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru with his sister, and President Truman in Washington.
Napoleon on the Great St Bernhard Pass, by Jacques-Louis David, a French painter.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, with US President Richard Nixon, 4 April 1970.
Satirical French illustration, depicting colonial rivalry in Morocco, 1903.
English postcard depicting the traditional changing of the guard ceremony, at Buckingham Palace, London 1900.
Not all of the WHA collection is available in digital form, but their manual archives are available for research access. Please ask if you do not find what you are looking for.
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