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FBI agent delivering $1,000,000 to a plane hijacker, in his underwear, 1972
Posted 15 days ago
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Oyster shuckers in South Carolina, 1912 — Josie (6), Bertha (6), and Sophie (10) starting work at 4 AM in the Maggioni Canning Co.
Posted 16 days ago
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Hitler says goodbye to Mussolini (they will never meet to again) Germany, 1944.
Posted 16 days ago
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Farmers hang nooses at a foreclosure auction to intimidate outside bidders. Michigan, 1936. (891x599)
Posted 16 days ago
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Remains of a prisoner in a crematorium furnace after liberation of Buchenwald, 1945. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White
Posted 17 days ago
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Two US Army MPs are slightly amused "interrogating" two German grade school children pressed into military service as the war was winding down, 1945. In general, any German "soldier" under 17 was briefly interrogated and then allowed to return home.
Posted 18 days ago
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