Images

An 1890s photograph of Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) a Russian socialist revolutionary and wife of Vladmir Lenin (1870-1924).

A 1917 photograph of the Russian Women’s Death Battalion and their leader Maria ‘Yashka’ Bochkareva (1889-1920), a Russian war hero. Also present is the British activist for women's rights Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928).

A photograph of Maria ‘Yashka’ Bochkareva (1889-1920), a Russian war hero and leader the Women’s Death Battalion. (Library of Congress)

Portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) by Julian Vannerson, March 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) taken by Mathew Brady in 1851, about ten years before the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Robert E. Lee (center) with his son Custis Lee (left) and aide Walter H. Taylor (right), photograph by M. B. Brady & Co., April 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) in his Confederate general uniform, 1863.

Gen. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) surrenders to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War. Painting by Thomas Nast.

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) in uniform as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers, portrait by William Edward West, 1838.

A home assembled amplifier featured as the cover illustration of the magazine Electronics World, September 1959, Volume 62 Number 3.