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A fashionable young woman exiting a NYC streetcar as gentleman looks on, 1912.

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German military advisers to Chiang Kai-shek leaving China in response to Japanese pressure. Hankou, China. July 5, 1938

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1945 mug shots of war criminals Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess. They were among the seven high ranking Nazis who were held in Spandau Prison in Berlin after their trial in Nuremberg.

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6k UHD reconstruction of a photo of 23yo Count Leo Tolstoy. Moscow 1851

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Franco and Kissinger, 1973

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Hirohito (Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989) and Helmut Kohl (Chancellor of german reunification), 1983

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Rescue operations in the destroyed elementary school. On 20 October 1944, due to a navigation error, Allied planes hit the districts of Gorla and Precotto in Milan. A bomb hit the elementary school "Crispi" causing 209 victims, including 184 childrens (Milan, Italy 1944)

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The crew of the B-24 bomber "Lady Be Good'. They became lost returning to North Africa from a mission and went missing on April 4, 1943. The aircraft wreck was found deep in the Libyan desert on November 9, 1958. Eight of the nine crew members' bodies were eventually recovered.

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Japanese battleship Nagato serving as one of the target ships during atomic testing at Bikini Atoll in 1946.

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Two future presidents among a group of first-term Congressmen taking part in a radio broadcast, 1947.

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From the Romanovs final ball (1903) colour photographs. The last Emperor of Russia Nicolas II dressed in the golden brocade of 17th-century Russian tsar Alexey Mikhailovich

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An ad on a New York bus, 1972

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