Photo Historical Photos

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Albert Camus reading En avant, the Salvation Army's newspaper in 1945

 

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Grand Dukes Sergei and Pavel of Russia, youngest sons of Tsar Alexander II and Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna of Russia; 1870s

 

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Pioneer Battalion (Maori contingent of New Zealand army) performing a haka, 1918

 

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U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph E. Day holds a German helmet he has taken as a war trophy and a stray puppy he has adopted and named Invasion during the Battle of Normandy France June 1944

 

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A young man and his Scottish Terrier

 

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Construction of the Empire State Building

 

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Vernon Evans (with his family) of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana, on Highway 10. July 1936. Leaving grasshopper-ridden and drought- stricken area for a new start in Oregon or Washington. Expects to arrive at Yakima in time for hop picking. Lives in tent (interview). Makes about two hundred miles a day in Model T.

 

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Original caption: Warrior in Repose. Peleliu, Palau Islands: Exhausted by days of battle, an American Marine, unnamed, sleeps in a sandy hollow back of the front line on Peleliu Island. A Coast Guard combat photographer came upon the scene and snapped a scraggly black dog “standing guard”.

 

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Ernest Hemingway's passport photo, 1923

 

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Soldiers of 11th Battalion AIF (Australian Imperial Force) posing on the Great Pyramid of Giza on January 10, 1915 before the landing at Gallipoli

 

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Tennessee Valley Authority Worker, Douglas Dam, Tennessee, 1942, Arthur Rothstein

 

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Unidentified members of the Australian 5th Division, enjoying a "smoko" near Mametz, on the Somme, France, December 1916

 

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Christmas holiday party aboard USS Anzio, December 25, 1944

 

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Oscar Wilde, 1882

 

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Vancouver Rowing Club, 1929

 

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Harvard University varsity athletes, c 1920s

 

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Yale Varsity Crew, 1911

 

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Audience reaction to the Bob Hope show at Seoul, Korea. October 23, 1950

 

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Nikola Tesla in Colorado Springs, 1899

 

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The Kennedy brothers - John, Bobby and Teddy, c 1946