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Grandfather 1973

Posted 21 days ago
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Sanatorium for lung diseases in Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland, 1970s. Photo by Chris Niedenthal.

Posted 21 days ago
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My Aunt Donna was such a vibe.

Posted 22 days ago
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Sharecropper mother teaching her children numbers and letters in a make-do classroom she added to their Transylvania, Louisiana home, 1939. (960x776)

Posted 22 days ago
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A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan, circa 1870s.

Posted 22 days ago
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Me and my grandfather on Christmas morning, 1981.

Posted 22 days ago
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American anti-masturbation cartoon (1875) comparing the decay of the 'masturbator' with the vitality of the 'abstainer'.

Posted 22 days ago
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Moses Hardy, the last African American WW1 veteran who was the son of ex-slaves. He survived a mustard gas attack in France, being awarded the Victory Medal by the Mississippi National Guard and the French Legion d'honneur (The most prestigious national order of merit) Nov. 4 2005 (394x284)

Posted 23 days ago
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Irena Sendler, of the Polish resistance group Zegota, helped thousands of Jewish children escape the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust of World War II. Warsaw, Poland, 1944

Posted 23 days ago
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Elsie Allcock has lived in the same house for 104 years

Posted 23 days ago
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2 Kids 'Dancing in the Street' in 1940s NY.

Posted 23 days ago
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In 1953 democratically elected Iranian prime minister was overthrown by the CIA and MI6 replacing him with Shah monarchy who gave access to iranian oil industry to Western companies.

Posted 23 days ago