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Portrait of Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim 1910. Refusing to enter a lifeboat, he reportedly asked a steward to inform his family "that I played the game straight to the end and that no women was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward" (1437 x 1600)
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A battle-weary soldier from George S. Patton’s Third Army sleeps on the luxurious bed where Hermann Goering once slept, 1945.
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Portrait of a young girl living at the Jewish orphanage in Sosnowiec, Poland. (1946) (872×1200)
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Chicago 1941. Walking down Michigan Ave crossing Ontario Street. The man appears to be blind and is being assisted by the lady. A 35mm negative by John Vachon restored by Shorpy
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Hermann Goring shaking hands with Joseph Goebbels on January 12, 1941. The photo was taken during a birthday celebration for Goring. Goebbels detested Goring in his diary. Here's Goebbels's diary excerpts of what he thought of Goring.
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Two Wehrmacht officers belonging to 16th Army, seconds before executing two Soviet civilians, 1943. Photo found in wallet of German soldier belonging to 16th Army.
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Portrait of a young girl living at the Jewish orphanage in Sosnowiec. (1946)
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Marilyn Monroe admired Abraham Lincoln and considered him a father figure, even keeping a portrait of him in her home. 1954
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Raffaella Carrà, the first woman to show her belly button on Italian television in 1970
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