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"Early Morning". Photograph by Kurt Hutton, 1949. Colorized. [2436x3746].
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America’s teenager: Dick Clark, Testing of Dentyne gum advertising, 1956. [1318x1585]
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USAF TSgt Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline 'I Am A Homosexual'. Matlovich was the first named openly gay person to appear on the cover of a US newsmagazine (United States 1975) [1760x2378]
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Deposed Ugandan dictator Idi Amin on his deathbed, August 2003. Overthrown in 1979, Amin lived the majority of the rest of his life in relative obscurity in Saudi Arabia. (1920 X 1080)
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson on his porch in Woody Creek, Colorado. July 1983. (2500 X 1973)
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Gene Jantzen with wife Pat and 11-month-old son Kent (1947). [2160x1620]
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Burt Reynolds’s at his ranch in Jupiter, FL, 1972- check out that shag carpet!
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A Native American, Belonging To The Ojibwe People, Spear Fishing In A Lake Somewhere In Minnesota, 1908 [700x700]
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"The Shave", USSR, WW2, 1945
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"How Red is the Little Red Schoolhouse?" USA, 1945.
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A soldier of the Polish Armed Forces in the West is playing wrestling with a bear. The bear's name was Wojtek, he was the mascot of the II Corps, even became a corporal and after the war he lived in Edinburgh Zoo. Probably summer 1943 [666x461]
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Notice of mail suspension with Central Powers, posted in the main post office in Cincinnati, Ohio; nine days after the official war declaration by the US. April 15, 1917. (photo by Felix J. Koch) [1500 X 1072]
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This photo is called “Three Boys Behind Barbed Wire”, taken by Toyo Miyatake in 1944. As a professional photographer and a Japanese-America, he snuck film into the internment camp at Manzanar, California and built a camera out of scrap wood, since cameras were strictly forbidden inside the camps.
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Château de Tanlay at Tanlay, France
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Rockaway Beach, NY, 1946. Colorized. [1017x1024].
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IRA propagande poster (1980")
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Oldest aerial photograph, This Boston area photo is the oldest aerial photograph in existence. Furthermore, it was taken in October 1860. [700×825]
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Three of Africa's most notorious dictators, Mobutu Sese Seko of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Idi Amin of Uganda, and Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic meeting in 1976. (637 X 483)
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To be cool in 1964 you had to own an album by The Faith Tones
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American elections. Soviet Union, 1970s
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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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A street in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States, photographed by Jack Delano in January 1941. Credit: sebcolorisation on Instagram
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Queen Street in Brisbane, Australia during the 1893 Brisbane floods [1000 × 754]
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The Raleigh Radiotelephone Chopper Bicycle being demonstrated for the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, London, March 1971. Colorized. [1682x2048].
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Antietam, Maryland. Lt. Col. Charles B. Norton at headquarters of Gen. Fitz-John Porter. Sept. 1862. Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1870, photographer
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Archaeological workers extract the mummified bodies of two adults and three children from Pompeii, May 1, 1961 [800x811]
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Boris Yeltsin's Thank-you Letter to the Defenders of the Russian White House during the 1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt (1991-08-22) [2455 x 3460]
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Votez la liste socialiste, une Genève bien gouvernée, c. 1935.
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Actress Jayne Mansfield (1956)
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