The Picturehunt has already delivered us some great photos of the war. We’d like to encourage you all to take a look at the video archives, there’s great stuff in there (more info here). To make it clearer, I just named the topic in the list for this week, you can look for both video and photo material.
You can help us by finding public domain photos or videos from the Reuters Archive. The Free Finnish Defence Forces Archive might be especially useful for the Finnish parts of this episode. If you want the urls to all the sources, click here! For more information on the rules and how to participate, go here. For the leaderboard, go here.
Have you found one of them? Write ‘which of the listed pictures it is’, ‘the url where you found it’ and ‘the licensing situation’.
Note: We can only use photo’s that are in the public domain. Please take this into account.
Happy Hunting!
Cheers,
Joram
Chinese or Japanese forces in the Guangzhou region late December or early January 1939.
Photo of Wang Jingwei
Photo of Gao Zongwu
Photo of the secret agreement between Japanese and Wang Jingwei, 30 December 1939.
Finnish ski battalions late 1939 or early 1940
Raate road late 1939 or early 1940
Digged in Soviet forces in the Winter War
Hand to hand combat (or training) by Finnish or Soviet forces early 1940
Photo of soviet General Vinogradov
Killed Soviet soldiers early January 1940
Frozen Soviet soldiers early January 1940
Photo of Life Magazine photographer Carl Mydans
Winter War photos made by photographer Carl Mydans
Soviet POWs in Finnish detention early January 1940
Captured Soviet weapons, ammunition, tanks and machine guns in Finnish hands, early January 1940.
Photo of Wang Jingwei in Military uniform, found on wikimedia commons,
The image is in the public domain as it has been 50 years since it was first published in China.
I could not find any specific licensing related to its use, but I am new at this and may have missed something. My apologies if this is unusable.
Photo of Vinogradov from some time in the 1930s. From his wiki page.
Public domain
That’s it for now. All the pics are by SA-kuva unless mentioned otherwise. Also, if you would prefer the “info page” instead of a direct link to the image, let me know. I’m sure I can refind them and get the info for you
Hey @Erkki, I love the pictures! The editor for this episode asked me if she could get the pictures (from the SA-Kuva archive in this instance) in better quality. Those are available by downloading the picture from the website instead of just saving the images (if that makes sense). Other solution is to just paste the link to the picture here and I’ll download them.
@Joram Hey, I wasn’t able to find all of them sadly. Probably because I used sotasampo.fi which is SA-kuva but with a better UI and search function, but there you can’t paste a link to the download. So I had to try to find them from SA-kuva but didn’t find them because apparently the photos have different IDs on different pages. I was able to find some of them though, I put the download links as hyperlinks below. Next time i’ll try to get them downloaded and post the full size pictures here. Hopefully this helps
Body of frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish fighters to intimidate Soviet troops, Dec 1939 (I know it’s pre-1940, but it’s an iconic photo, so I couldn’t resist).
Have you found one of them? Write ‘which of the listed pictures it is’, ‘the url where you found it’ and ‘the licensing situation’.
Note: We can only use photo’s that are in the public domain. Please take this into account.
