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"The Shave", USSR, WW2, 1945
https://redd.it/16bc02o
"How Red is the Little Red Schoolhouse?" USA, 1945.
https://redd.it/16au5u8
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]
https://redd.it/16aghja
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]
https://redd.it/169jqkj
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.
https://redd.it/169poem
Château de Tanlay at Tanlay, France
https://redd.it/169djsg
Rockaway Beach, NY, 1946. Colorized. [1017x1024].
https://redd.it/168ychm
Egyptian police arrested 52 men on charges of homosexuality, The case was known as “Queen Boat” which is the name of the floating gay nightclub & the name “Cairo 52” , Cairo, 2001 [536 x 402]
https://redd.it/168vzgj
British soldiers smile at a defaced 'Viva Il Duce' slogan on a wall in Reggio, Italy, 3 September 1943. [800 × 785]
https://redd.it/168qw3m
In 1912, Floyd Allen, the patriarch of a family of wealthy landowners, was sentenced a year in prison after being convicted of assault. Rather than go to prison, Allen and his family pulled out guns in the court, killing the Judge, the sheriff, the prosecutor, and two others, Virginia [960 x 1186].
https://redd.it/1687fae
Adult Star and model Mary Millington, 1975. Colorized. [1011x1500].
https://redd.it/167enj2
May 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. "Electric welders"
https://redd.it/167qc86
Ronald Reagan poses at the University of Southern California in 1940. He was chosen as an example of the ideal male body by the school's fine arts department. [923x649]
https://redd.it/166j4mv
"To boldly go where no one has... What kept you?" A political caricature of Obama's visit to Cuba, 2016.
https://redd.it/1672338
The Raleigh Radiotelephone Chopper Bicycle being demonstrated for the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, London, March 1971. Colorized. [1682x2048].
https://redd.it/16apwd7
Antietam, Maryland. Lt. Col. Charles B. Norton at headquarters of Gen. Fitz-John Porter. Sept. 1862. Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1870, photographer
https://redd.it/15s6qr1
Archaeological workers extract the mummified bodies of two adults and three children from Pompeii, May 1, 1961 [800x811]
https://redd.it/169x1bn
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]
https://redd.it/13jonvl
Votez la liste socialiste, une Genève bien gouvernée, c. 1935.
https://redd.it/1694s7g
Actress Jayne Mansfield (1956)
https://redd.it/168o75t
"Boris! John! I missed you since the Cold War". A political caricature of the confrontation between Russia and the United States in Syria, 2014.
https://redd.it/168x8rs
Disneyland’s employee cafeteria 1961. [1636x1620]
https://redd.it/1681pii
András Toma, the last WW2 POW, being released. Toma was captured in 1945, and locked up in insane asylum for speaking gibberish. In 2000, he was accidentally discovered by a Slovak, who recognized he's speaking hungarian. Toma was successfully identified and returned home. He died in 2004. [800x989]
https://redd.it/1687up9
Kost Castle 🏰 Libošovice, Czechia
https://redd.it/1682072
Tennessee migrant in Sacramento, California, 1937
https://redd.it/167gkvc
Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, August 9, 1902. [3600×4800]
https://redd.it/167jrcw
The colonel and head of the Libyan state Muammar Gaddafi greets the crowd for the first time since he had overthrown the Libyan monarchy. On 1 September 1969, a group of about 70 young army officers gained control of the government and abolished the Libyan monarchy (Libya 1969) [2867x1826]
https://redd.it/166yen3
Removing the forward tripod from USS Arizona, May 1942.[2400x1692]
https://redd.it/166moka