Even a public bathroom can tell a piece of modern history. The photographer is called Elliott Erwitt, and the photograph is titled “North Carolina, 1950”. [1024 × 768]

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Swedish bicycle mounted infantry being towed by tractors, presumably late 60s or 70s. [1675x1179]

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32 years ago, the beginning of the Romanian Revolution in Bucharest (21st December, 1989) [594 x 396]

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Coal miner and his family in their home. Scott's Run, West Virginia. March 19, 1937.[3000x2194]

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The deteriorated West Side Highway in lower Manhattan, 1973. Later that year, an overloaded dump truck fell through the elevated road, forcing its permanent closure. [1024 x 752]

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Steve Irwin, aged 17, playing for the local rugby league team. 1979. [350 X 240].

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US General Douglas MacArthur Fading Away in Retirement, 1963 [560x1960]

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A group of elderly men sitting on a mat, taken in Peshawar, now in Pakistan, circa 1865. Two of the men are looking at each other with contempt, suggesting that they may actually be enemies who have been persuaded to be photographed together as examples of native thugs. (1200x900)

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Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, future Pope Pius XII, in 1939 in Lourdes (704x396)

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Two German Soldiers in 1916 [1600x1295].

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Mrs. W. R. New is shown with her electric ice box, electric stove and electric water heater in Norris, Tenn., on March 29, 1938. Mrs. New's husband works for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). (Photo by Charles Gorry/AP Photo) (3780x2464)

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1906. Frozen fountain in Detroit (colored by me) [1700x1700]

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US Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton, near Shuri, Okinawa, May 1945. [1600 x 1326]. See comment.

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President Lyndon B Johnson at the signing of the Civil Rights Act, 1964. Political figures such as Robert Kennedy & Hubert Humphrey can be seen in the background. Both Martin Luther King Jr. & FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who launched a campaign of subterfuge against him, are present (8578x8380)

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Vietnam War: A 6ft 5in machine gunner with the US 9th Infantry Division is submerged except for his rifle as he crosses a muddy stream in the Mekong delta south of Saigon on 10 September 1968. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP [1920 x 1330]

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Streams of confiscated liquor pour out of upper windows of three-story storefront in Detroit during Prohibition, 1929 [500x451]

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A businessman and secretary working in a pool during a heatwave in Berlin, Germany 1926. [2159x1480]

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The Making of Mount Rushmore, 1939. The faces of the four presidents (Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) were carved out of solid granite in a massive project that began in 1927 and ended in 1941 [3072x2304]

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Christmas Day 1981. Seen in this photo is Kerri Rawson and her father Dennis Rader, better known to the world as serial killer BTK [1200x1580]

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The tiny platinum bullet which killed BBC broadcaster Georgi Markov, who had defected from Bulgaria in 1969. The pellet measured 1.7 mm/1/16 in, and contained ricin, a deadly poison. It was injected into Markov's leg using an umbrella, while he was waiting to take a bus (London, UK 1978) [2867x2133]

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White, Native, and Mexican men playing cards, 1908. [600 x 464]

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Kids Having fun at East 167th Street, South Bronx. New York 1973. [1600x1071]

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Tens of thousands of East Germans protest against the government of the German Democratic Republic in East Berlin, 1989. [1000 x 667]

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Rifleman R.M. Douglas of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles with a group of Dutch women who are celebrating the liberation of Deventer, Netherlands. April 1945. [2560 x 1931]

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1860's photo of Russian general Grigory Von Zass, notorious for his brutal role in the still officially denied Circassian genocide, that killed from 1-1.5 million people. Zass openly encouraged the murder, rape & torture of Circassian civilians & was known for collecting their body parts (342x435)

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Miniskirts just coming into fashion in Latvia, ca. 1965. [970x663]

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April 30, 1945 - A Good News Day [720x570]

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Buzz Aldrin, first self portrait in space. 1966.[902х1024]

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The Empire State Building, NYC, 1941 [530 x 776]

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Winston Churchill goofing off with his daughter Mary Soames, 1943. [604x808]

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2500-year celebration of the Persian Empire. Persepolis, Iran. October 1971 [850x559]

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Russian president Boris Yeltsin at the post-soviet funeral of the Romanovs, Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family, 1998. Killed in 1918 & exhumed in 1991, their bodies were DNA tested and officially buried by the Russian government. (1366x710)

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Meeting of Ainu people. Indigenous people from northern Japan. ca. 1900. [1000x753]

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CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, 1953. He gained fame covering the London Blitz during WW2. He later reported on McCarthyism and migrant workers. He even hosted a celebrity interview show. Color original. [722 x 521]

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Photochrome image of young women on Marken Island, Holland, between 1890-1900 - Photo credit Photo 12/ Universal Images Group [1060x1440]

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Polaroid chief chemist Howard G Rogers and unidentified others as they pose with 5,000 bottles of chemical compounds used to discover the Polaroid color film process, 1963 [1202x1453]

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Five kidnapped western tourists held in captivity by an Islamist militant group in the Kashmir valley in 1995. The tourist on the right would escape, the one in the center was beheaded, and the others were never found [1000 × 563]

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Young Jean-Claude Fide being treated with Penicillin by his mother (Mont-pres-Chambord, France 1948) [2048x1329]

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Two Vietnamese children, huddling against a canal bank for protection from Viet Cong sniper fire, gaze at an American paratrooper's M79 grenade launcher on New Year's Day, 1966, near Bao Trai. [540 x 357]

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“I am going to die a good Catholic and a soldier of the Irish Republic. Lord Jesus give me courage in my last moments. If I had only got told of my sentence, I would have been well prepared before now. Oh mother if I could only see you.” James Fisher(18). First of 81 executions Nov.17,1922 (217x338)

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“Don’t know how old I am. Mother can tell. She keeps track of these things. She begins to work in mill tomorrow. ‘Speks I’ll go to help.” Mom said she is 10; little sister not at work yet. Location: Chester, South Carolina, 1908 (Source National Child Labor Committee, Lewis Hine) [863x1085]

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Exhausted civilians try to get water during German siege of Stalingrad, 1942. [563x809]

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Las Vegas Strip 1955 [1800x650]

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Paris in 1890 (740x634)

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A KGB agent runs through the night to escape capture in Wellington, New Zealand in September 1974. [720x523]

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A woman lying on the pavement in the Warsaw ghetto, starving to death, 1941. [1600x1558]

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Unit control desk of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, April 18, 1983. [1200 x 910]

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Allegedly, this is the last picture of Adolf Hitler before he committed suicide on April 30, 1945. In the photo, Hitler is seen with his adjutant, Julius Schaub, looking at the ruins of the Reich Chancellery on April 28, 1945.[1170x809]

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Members of the Western Somali Liberation Front in 1977 at the beginning of the Ogaden War. [474x680]

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An ordinary soldier, named James Hendrix, of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States plays the guitar with a fellow soldier in 1962. [500 × 391]

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A Zulu tribesman pulls a tourist in a pedicab in Durban, Union of South Africa. Photo by Melville Chater, 1930's [636x865]

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Adolf Hitler with field marshal August von Mackensen for his 90th birthday,Brussow,6 December 1939[975 x 1500]

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St. Maximillian Kolbe the ‘Martyr of Auschwitz’, Polish priest who voluntarily took the place of a stranger who was condemned to forced starvation. (1936) [726 x 981]

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Signing the Treaty of Versaille in the Hall of Mirrors, 1919 [1000x791]

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Leftist woman handing out anti-shah manifesto. Tehran, iran, 1979. (688×473)

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Bride from Halsingland, Sweden between circa 1870 and circa 1899 [892×1500]

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Indian Army Sikh personnel in action during the successful Operation Crusader in December 1941. (631×484)

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Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Zeta Acosta at Caesar’s Palace, 1971 [1832x1428]

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This little girl is tending to her sheep on her family’s farm. The cows in the front yard is just adorable. Bought from a seller in Conneticutt but I don’t know where it was taken. Circa 1900. From my glass negative collection. (800x640)

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Park Chung Hee and other members of the Coup in 1961, right after seized power.(600X434)

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Vice President Thomas Marshall signing the 19th Amendment shortly after it's ratification, June 1919 (1280x720)

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Ella Fitzgerald with Marilyn Monroe, 1956 (1200x675)

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Sarin factory discovered at the Aum Shinrikyo facility Satyan-7 in 1995. [1152×842]

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Ethnomusicologist playing a cylinder recording for Mountain Chief, 1916 (Colorized) [900x897]

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Yugoslavia's Jugolinija shipping line and the Twin Towers, 1980s [1024x980]

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Queen Victoria, the grandmother of Europe, with Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, and future King Edward VII in one large royal family snapshot, 1894 [2307x2400].

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Queen Victora on her deathbed. Late Janurary 1901. [2250x1724]

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Father and son take silly photos, 1910s. (640×640)

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Iranian women before Islamic Revolution in 1979 [1910s] [300x450]

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U.S 5th Division Marines display Japanese battle flags captured during the Battle of Iwo Jima, early 1945 (1144x859)

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Train passengers wearing masks to protect themselves from the Spanish Flu, 1918, 1920. (960x720)

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1948 - Istanbul/Turkey (1200x826)

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Religious KKK members in Oregon (1920s) [926x1484]

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Richard Winters and Easy Company at the Eagle's Nest, Hitler's former residence in the Bavarian Alps, 1945. [1200 x 814] [Colorized]

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Mark Twain in a rocking chair on a porch with his cat, Dublin, New Hampshire, September 1906 [Colorized] [609x900]

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A native american mother and her child - 1900s [1200x1500]

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State security officer Kippe (butt of a cigarette) shooting at two guys who wanted to escape to West Berlin, April 8, 1989 [1280x720]

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President Theodore Roosevelt (right, standing on turret) addresses the crew of USS Connecticut, on February 22, 1909, during the final week of his presidency.[2400 × 1919]

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Pakistan ISI agent Brigadier Yasub Ali Dogar enjoying chai whilst the Soviet ammunition dumps in Gardez district are destroyed, mid 1980s~, [1012x675]

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Korean children play near a church in North Pyongan Province, Japanese Korea (present-day North Korea) - 1930s [559x1020]

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German tennis player Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters, which he defeated in a match that took place because of the sisters' boast that they would beat any man players except the top 200. The German drank two shandy before the match. 1998 [610x433]

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University of Pennsylvania dental students observing surgery in the Oral Surgery Clinic at the former Philadelphia General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 1910 [4007×3104]

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The world's last commercial sailing ship - The Pamir - rounding Cape Horn, 1949 [483 x 640]

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Benito Mussolini in March 1945. (800x537)

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A protesting boy remembers those who came before, 1930s [1000x900]

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korean war goodbye kiss Private Robert Moye leans out of a train to kiss his wife goodbye, LA, California, 1950. [4371x5581]

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People seeking shelter behind lamp-posts at Dam square Amsterdam after German troops opened fire at the celebrating masses (22 killed, 120 injured), 7 May 1945 [1024x768]

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White protesters joining the march on Washington D.C. during the civil rights movement, August 1963. [1200x675]

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Chevrolet Vega being loaded on a rail car, specially designed to vertically transport 30 per car. 1971 [1024x1011]

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Firefighters battle a blaze in Montreal, 1889.[1456 x 2048]

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A moment before happiness. Romania 1955. [750x989]

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Lizzie Van Zyl, an Afrikaans girl in a British concentration camp during the Second Anglo-Boer war (1901) [2,412 × 1,644]

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Anti-hijab protest in Iran days after the 1979 revolution [1000x607]

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July 1, 1894 archaeologists uncovered a near-perfectly preserved, still-upright statue of Antinous. (828x890)

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A young girl fighting for the Lon Nol regime against the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian civil war, circa 1970-1975 (998x1500)

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Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge Suspender Cables October 7, 1914 [540×458]

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Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. 29 May 1953 [2280 × 3368]

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19-year old Mathias Rust standing against his Cessna 172 resting on the Red Square after landing, 1987 [1080×681]

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Kaiser Wilhelm II and King George V in 1913 [960x824]

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BBC War Correspondent Robin Duff makes a recording during the D-Day landings, 1944. [Colorization] [976x549]

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Photo taken on April 8, 1945. This horrific picture is part of a photo sequence taken by the automatic bomb strike camera of a B-17. The photosequence shows the final 18 seconds of B-17G 42 'Wee Willie' over Stendal, Saxony- Anhalt, Germany, after it was hit by an 88mm flak burst. [836 x 980]

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c. 1975: Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro on the set of Taxi Driver. [583x756]

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The daughter of an Auschwitz survivor strikes a skinhead during a march in the Swedish town of Vaxjo, 1985. The picture was published in the next day’s newspapers and sparked a huge discussion in Sweden [1500 x 1020]

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The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945. [1200x865]

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A Cowboy resting with his horse, 1910 [955x760]. (Colorized by me)

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Erwin Rommel (in the middle) dressed as a woman for a variety show during his student years at Kriegsschule, Danzig, 1912. [920x617]

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A Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 [720 x 873].

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The U.S. Navy battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) in Auxiliary Drydock AFDB-1, April 1952, at Guam.[3380 × 3746]

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Three women step out in Paris in May 1908 at the Prix du Prince de Galles at Longchamp racecourse [900 x 1274]

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Victorian couple trying not to laugh in front of camera. 1800s [431x464]

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FDR visits a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, 1933. In 9 years, 3 million poor young men joined the CCC. They were fed, housed, and paid a wage that was mostly sent to their families. Their efforts improved public land to this day. [1022 x 575]

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Bogalusa, Louisiana, July 1, 1965. [500x578]

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Paparazzi photographer Ron Galella shown wearing a football helmet around actor Marlon Brando, As Brando once sucker-punched him, broke his jaw, and knocked out five teeth in ,1973. [526x517]

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John Cleese playing Football in between takes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 1974 [866 x 1,080]

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Identical cousins George V of the United Kingdom and Nicholas II of Russia. 1913 in Berlin [427 × 599]

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Stevie Wonder visiting a children's school for the blind in London, 1970 [762x962]

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Motel manager James Brock pours muriatic acid in the Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool, to get a group of white and black American integrationists out of the pool. June 18, 1964 [Colorized] [1200x1802]

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London's first black police officer, PC Norwell Roberts, on point duty near Charing Cross Station, 1968. [932x1200]

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Rudolf von Ribbentrop in London in 1936, shortly after his father, Joachim, was appointed German ambassador to Great Britain. He attended Westminster School there, where one classmate stated that he dressed like the rest of us, but with a Nazi party youth badge. [960x1354]

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Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, 1960. Colorized [1600x1390]

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Archaeologists dine in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923 [567x768]

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A Turkish peasant performs his last prayer before being executed by Bulgarian soldiers, Cisr-i Mustafapasa (Svilengrad), Bulgaria, 1913. [700x620].

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President Jimmy Carter with the then-leader of Nigeria, General Olusegun Obasanjo (1977). Two years later, Obasanjo became the first military head of state to transfer power peacefully to a civilian regime in Nigeria. [1280 × 1873]

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The last public execution by guillotine, France, 1939. [1600×1169].

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Florence DiTullio Joyce, the first woman welder hired at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy Massachusetts, 1940s [1585x2101]

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Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977) [1940x2867]

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The 9 Kings of Europe gather for the first and only time for a photograph at the funeral of King Edward VII in London. May 20th, 1910 (Colorized and remastered with Topaz Labs Photo AI) [4800 x 3498]

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Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay's 35-year CIA-backed dictator, days after his overthrow, 1989. A pedophile who murdered & tortured thousands of dissidents & harbored Nazis like Josef Mengele, he ruled longer than any Latin-American dictator beside Castro. He died at 94 years old a free man. (2048x1930)

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A French boy introducing himself to Indian Soldiers in Marseille(France) During WW1 [750x525]

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Walt Disney as a red cross ambulance driver in France, 1919. Notice his drawing on the ambulance's side. (640x397)

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Northern Ireland, The Bogside, Londonderry 1971. Photo by Don McCullin [1353x900]

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