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Father posing with his 2 childrens and dog, circa 1880s

Posted 17 days ago
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie minutes before their assasination that would ingnite WW1, June 28,1914

Posted 17 days ago

7-year-old Drew Barrymore casually removes her fake teeth on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson while promoting E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Posted 17 days ago
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A US soldier rests in what used to be Saddam’s chair under a painting of Uday playing with a tiger, watched by his parents Saddam and Sajeda, April 2003.

Posted 18 days ago
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Civil war veteran poses with his grandchildren, circa 1880. Cabinet card

Posted 18 days ago
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The first ever underwater photograph taken in the South of France at a depth of 164 feet by Louis Boutan in 1899

Posted 18 days ago
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"We are part of a great Russia." Russia. School. 2017.

Posted 18 days ago
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The first photograph of Chernobyl was taken 14 hours after the explosion on April 26, 1986. It was taken from a helicopter assessing the radiation levels in the accident zone.

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Ali Khamenei in trench during Iran-Iraq war (1980s)

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1967, California. My mom at 7 years old in her Girl Scouts uniform, receiving a pin from her mom.

Posted 18 days ago
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Smoking marijuana with a shotgun, Vietnam, 1968.

Posted 19 days ago

John Denver and Johnny Cash sing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in their only ever performance together, 1978

Posted 19 days ago