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The Kiss of Life - A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, Jacksonville, Florida. 1967
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St. Gianna Beretta Molla, 1960s. Italian pediatrician and mother of four known for her charity. In her 4th pregnancy, she was diagnosed with ovarian cyst, but asked doctors to save her child’s life over her own. Her surviving daughter, named Gianna, grew up to be a doctor also.
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"US 3rd Army soldier guarding loot found stored in the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) at the Ellingen Castle in southern Germany, April 24, 1945" (photo enhanced and colorized by me)
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Child sliding from concrete sculpture/slide on the playground in Tychy, Poland. Photo taken in 1979.
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A grim picture of a 13 years old Turkish girl who, after getting raped, lost his jaw to a bomb thrown in the house where she and many others were put in one of the Yalova Massacres, which was a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Turkish population carried out by invading Greek armies. 1921.
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Siblings Lionel, Ethel, and John Barrymore in costumes and makeup for the 1932 movie Rasputin and the Empress.
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CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, 1953. He gained fame covering the London Blitz during WW2. He later reported on McCarthyism and migrant workers. He even hosted a celebrity interview show. Color original.
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Anne Lee Patterson Photographed By Alfred Cheney Johnston, Ca. 1930. Patterson was Miss USA in 1931, and also performed in the Ziegfeld Follies that same year.(990x1383)
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Australian soldier consoles a wounded American on the Western Front in WWI, circa. 1917
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