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My parents’ wedding in 1954. He was 19, and she was 18.

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Madam C. J. Walker, America’s first self-made female millionaire, with her Ford and friends, c. 1910s

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Rear seat of JFK's limousine, right after the assassination, 1963. (originally in color)

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Sailors Saluting A War Veteran, Leningrad 1989

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My wife and her sister (in yellow) circa 1972 in northern Italy.

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“Sharia” (“The Law”) Bahrain, 2022

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Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet seated next to Imelda Marcos, wife of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, at the funeral of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, 1975 (1338x1228)

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After 84 years, historians finally identified the Nazi soldier in this WWII photo known as “The Last Jew in Vinnitsa,” solving one of WWII’s biggest photographic mysteries. It was a former teacher named Jakobus Onnen. 1947

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Mrs. Daisy Herbert makes a delivery for her husband's New Jersey ice business. Date uncertain, but around 1930. We often forget how recently things like modern refrigerators became commonplace in people's homes.

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The commander of an M48 Patton tank looks through his lens, Vietnam war 1967 (1069x1600)

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Leonardo DiCaprio and his father, 1990s.

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A Polish resistance fighter checks her hair after a German air raid during the Warsaw Uprising, September 1944

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