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General L. W. Colby holding Little Lost Bird, found tied to her dead mother's back in the snow covered Wounded Knee field four days after the army killed nearly 300 Lakota there. Nineteen medals of honor were awarded for the massacre. (1891)

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Christmas of 1912 at the McCoy home. Robert, William Jr., and James McCoy pose near the decorated Christmas tree with their new toys nearby, Knoxville, Tennessee.

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1987 Marine Recruit sighting in at Parris Island with M-16A1, Drill Instructor is Calm

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Excavations in Sultanahmet square, Istanbul/Constantinople, 1935

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The hand of a radiographer at the Royal London Hospital, circa 1900 - at that time the effects of long-term radiation exposure were not yet realised and devices were calibrated on their own skin.

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Very young German POWs in the Sauer River region during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945

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Helen Keller visiting President JFK in the White House. Washington DC, 1961.

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US Marines drinking coffee aboard USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) after experiencing 2 days of heavy fighting on Eniewetok Atoll. Marshall Islands, February 19, 1944.

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Two Kashmiri guards along with American photographer James Ricalton at the Imperial Delhi Durbar in British India, 1903

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Martin Scorsese gives direction to Michael Jackson on the set of the short film "Bad". 1986

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A British soldier, taken prisoner during the Third Battle of Ypres, talking to his German captor , 1917 (1290 x 941)

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Karl Glöckner, the last living veteran of The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) celebrates his 107th birthday in December 1952

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