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Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937 Rare Historical Photos
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Women With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938
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Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her bomb damaged home London 1940
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Advertisement for Atabrine an anti-malaria drug at hospital New Guinea during WWII
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Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan ca 1944
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106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990
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Animals being used as a part of medical therapy in 1956
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Testing new bulletproof vests 1923
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Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961
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Unknown soldier in Vietnam 1965
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Bookstore ruined by an air raid London 1940
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Martin Luther King Jr with his son by his side removing a burnt cross from his front yard 1960
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Hotel owner pouring acid in the water when black people swam in his pool 1964
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A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children for sale Chicago 1948
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Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII
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Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas 1941
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Children eating their Christmas dinner during the Great Depression turnips cabbage
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Princeton students after a freshman vs sophomores snowball fight 1893
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A beautiful suicide – 23 year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947
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5 PM September 3 1967 Sweden changed from driving on the left side to the right the result
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Abraham Lincoln’s hearse 1865
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Former slave showing whipping scars
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Operation Babylift Vietnamese orphans transported by plane to America 1975
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Polish children examined by German officers to see if qualify as Aryan and allowed to live
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President Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks while visiting China in 1972
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Sailors aboard an Austrian warship wearing protective suits and gas masks during World War I.
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Group of women working on an automobile engine re shortage of men during World War I.
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Howard Carter, an English archaeologist, examining the opened sarcophagus of King Tut.
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Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussard Wax Museum London 1930
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An American soldier replaces "Adolf-Hitler-Str." sign with a "Roosevelt Blvd" one in Berlin, Germany, 1945.
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American soldiers discover Manet's “In the Conservatory” that was hidden (amongst other Nazi loot) in the salt mines of Merker, Germany. 1945.
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A different angle of the popular stand off between a man (top left in photo) and a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks (top right in photo) on Tiananmen Square.
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A man on the corner is reading a newspaper which headline reads “Nazi Army Now 75 Miles Away from Paris”. New York, May 18, 1940.
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Civil rights activist James Zwerg after being beaten by a white mob in Alabama, 1961. (After the beating he had to wait two hours for treatment as no white crew would pick him up.)
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A German Krupp K5 283mm railway gun firing. It was one of the most commonly used railway guns during World War 2 by Germany.
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Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun from afar. It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat, and fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece.
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George S. Patton's Dog, Willie, mourning his best friend on the day of his death.
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British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.
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A Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named “Enola Gay” was the bomber that dropped the “Little Boy” (nuclear bomb) over Hiroshima.
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Black Surgeon attending to a member of the KKK
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A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941
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The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.
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Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I.
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A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.
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Pope Pio XII meets with Hitler.
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Bread and soup during the Great Depression.
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German air raid on Moscow in 1941.
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In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a hilltop as American soldiers drive through the town of St. Lo. France, 1944.
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152 mm Howitzer battery fires during Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, 1944.
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Evacuating Saigon, April 30, 1975. An American evacuee punches away a South Vietnamese man for a place on the last chopper out of the US embassy.
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Corporal Luther E. Boger of US 82nd Airborne Division reading a warning sign, Cologne, Germany, 4 April 1945.
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A baby cries at a bombed train station in Shanghai, 1937.
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An RAF Pilot getting a haircut during a break between missions, Britain, 1942.
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A Panzer III tank crewman surrenders to an advancing Brittish soldier during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942.
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Music Jon Bon Jovi Dyin' Aint Much Of Livin' The unbroken seal on King Tut's Tomb. end
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