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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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My grandpa (11) and his grandfather (70) posing in the garden in 1945

Posted 16 days ago
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20 year-old Dolly Parton in a recording studio in 1966

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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You're not a great superpower anymore (Chappate, 2007)

Posted 16 days ago
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My baddie of a grandmother from the late 40s or early 50s

Posted 17 days ago
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The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th

Posted 17 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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Young lady with lose hair posing close to the forest, 1900s.

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