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Polaroid of Steve Buscemi in drag on the set of Somebody to Love (1994)

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A woman in the USSR has equal rights with a man! USSR 1946

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Spymaster Brigadier Yasub Dogar from Pakistan's ISI enjoying qahwa (tea) on a mountain top in Gardez, Afghanistan whilst the Soviet ammunition depots are being destroyed in the background. Soviet-Afghan war, early 1980s,

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Fred Flintstone punching bag , 1968

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Three of the seven linked forts in the Thames Estuary which guarded British shipping lanes against mines and mine laying aeroplanes, 29th September 1945.

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Dutch Nazi movement members and shaven "Moffenmeids" (women who had relationships with German occupiers) being publicly shamed after the liberation of The Netherlands, 1945.

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Grandma in Central Park 1940s

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Tourism With A Conscience (International Herald Tribune, 2008)

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Soviet oncologist. Photo by Yuri Kuidin, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1973

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Tilda Swinton - 1986

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A businessman watches Ed Sullivan from a hotel room in San Francisco, December 1958.

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US President Abraham Lincoln seated at his second inauguration ceremony next to former & incoming vice-Presidents Hannibal Hamlin & Andrew Johnson, 1865. (2048x1702)

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