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Family in front of their log house 1880’s.
28 students of a one-room school, Missouri, 1939.
A coal miner and his family, West Virginia, 1938.
Welsh woman washing her mine-working husband, 1931.
Two Boys in London, 1902.
Poor mother and children, Finland 1917.
Deadwood, South Dakota, circa. 1877.
The Endurance ship being stuck in the Antarctic ice (forever), 1915.
Two brothers from West Virginia who fought on opposite sides of the American Civil War in 1910
Photo of a Soviet war veteran near the Eternal Flame on the anniversary of Victory Day, 1966.
Zen monks at Asakusa Temple, in Tokyo, perform air raid drills with gas masks in 1936
Sharon Tate showing off the baby clothing she had bought in London, UK in 1969.
One of only 2 photographs ever taken of US president Andrew Jackson. 1845
A wedding during the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut, Lebanon, 1986.
A female Afghan communist revolutionary during the Saur Revolution, 1978
Departure of a Red Cross train going to Switzerland, Budapest, Hungary, 1947
Billboard swearing Manhattan Project workers to secrecy, 1945.
The first wave of Marine landing craft head towards the beaches of Iwo Jima. 08:59, 19 February 1945.
Two German Soldiers in 1916
Massive column of thousands of German prisoners of war marching down the Autobahn
Shoe shine boys talking to a Civil War Veteran, 1920s.
Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972.
A Zulu tribesman pulls a tourist in a pedicab in Durban, Union of South Africa. Photo by Melville Chater, 1930’s
Northern Ireland, The Bogside, Londonderry 1971. Photo by Don McCullin
French civilians erected this memorial to an American soldier in Carentan, France, in 1944.
Barricade constructed by revolutionaries of the Paris commune, 1871.
Gavrilo Princip’s parents in front of their house, Bosnia, 1910s/1920s
