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Coal miner’s child in grade school. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946. National Archives, Russell Lee photographer
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Italian sculptors, including the young Angelo Zanelli standing besides the completed statues that are about to be placed on the Vittoriano/Altare Della Patria monument in Rome, early 1900s.
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Jewish mothers walking with children past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire destined for the gas chambers at Auschwitz on May 27th, 1944.
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On August 12, 1898, the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi over ʻIolani Palace was lowered to raise the United States flag to signify annexation.
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Leona Randolph Dalton, younger sister of the famous Dalton brothers from the Wild West gang, celebrates her 82nd birthday with her friends in 1957. She died 7 years later as the last of her siblings.
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A typical Serbian "zadruga" - an extended family that formed a single household, 1934, rural western Serbia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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Canadian officers beam at the news of the signing of the Korean Armistices, July 1953
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Tanks and mounted troops advance to break up a Bonus Marchers’ camp of veterans protesting lost wages in Washington D.C., July 28, 1932.
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1947: The fuselage of the ‘Spruce Goose’ (Hughes H-4 Hercules) making its way to final assembly in California.
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French President François Mitterrand and General Maurice Schmitt visit the battlefield of Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1993.
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John H. Patterson poses with a lion he shot, one of a pair of Tsavo man-eaters. It was a pair of maneless males that attacked Indian railway builders in southern British Kenya. The exact number of people killed by the lions is unclear. Patterson claimed there were 135 victims. Dec 1898
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