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A picture taken of my German grandfather during WW1 - 1915 - posing with a British dud shell during the battle of loos (1131 x 1553)
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Children sit on a whites-only bench along the waterfront in Durban, South Africa. May 27, 1960.
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This photograph was taken by Lawrence Beutler in 1930. Two black men were hanged after being falsely accused of raping a white girl.
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Passengers aboard an Eastern Airlines flight from the UK to Australia, 1935. Flight took 11 days (with stops).
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Jacques Biederer, an erotic photography pioneer, hard at work in Paris, 1928. (648x481)
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Soldier in an Italian home spraying a mixture of DDT and kerosene to control malaria, 1945.
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'Endurance' stuck in the ice 1915, Trapped and crushed by Antarctic pack ice, the crew of the Endurance survived nearly 500 days, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctica
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U.S. Air Force lieutenant captured by a young North Vietnamese female soldier, Vietnam, 1967.
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