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My (now) wife on her way to high school, 1984
Posted 20 days ago
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The dead bodies of the Dalton Gang following their demise in the shootout during the 1892 Coffeyville bank robbery.
Posted 21 days ago
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Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas.
Posted 21 days ago
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A bride who received a gift from her U.S. Marine fiancé containing the skull of a Japanese soldier he had killed writes him a letter of gratitude in response. The photo was published in Life magazine on May 22, 1944.
Posted 21 days ago
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Japanese high school students playing mahjong and injecting methamphetamine (Hiropon, ヒロポン) (ca. 1950)
Posted 22 days ago
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My grandmother (on the left) and a friend after her release from a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1953
Posted 22 days ago
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A French boy meets Indian soldiers who have just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British troops, Marseille, September 30, 1914.
Posted 22 days ago
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A U.S. Army lieutenant fires a flaming arrow at a bamboo hut. Vietnam, 1967.
Posted 22 days ago
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