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The hand of a radiographer at the Royal London Hospital, circa 1900 - at that time the effects of long-term radiation exposure were not yet realised and devices were calibrated on their own skin.

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Very young German POWs in the Sauer River region during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945

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Helen Keller visiting President JFK in the White House. Washington DC, 1961.

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US Marines drinking coffee aboard USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) after experiencing 2 days of heavy fighting on Eniewetok Atoll. Marshall Islands, February 19, 1944.

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Two Kashmiri guards along with American photographer James Ricalton at the Imperial Delhi Durbar in British India, 1903

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Martin Scorsese gives direction to Michael Jackson on the set of the short film "Bad". 1986

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A British soldier, taken prisoner during the Third Battle of Ypres, talking to his German captor , 1917 (1290 x 941)

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Karl Glöckner, the last living veteran of The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) celebrates his 107th birthday in December 1952

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Pernkopf addressing the faculty at the University of Vienna Medical school. Vienna, Germany. April 6, 1938.

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A US Army medic administering first aid to a GI in the woods near Tittingen, Germany during the Battle of the Ardennes, 1944.

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1946: Margret Zimmermann balancing on a tightrope over the ruins of Cologne in which was then in the British occupation zone in Germany

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Sergeant Dawson of the Grenadier Guards, wounded in the Crimean War (1856)

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