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Cairo - when Egypt was an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire - photo was taken by English photographer and businessman, Francis Frith, c. 1856.

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Red Army soldiers relax on the beach with local women. Occupied Danish island of Bornholm. The USSR occupied the island on 9 May 1945 after bombing civilian homes and returned it to Denmark on 5 April 1946.

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Vultures on remains of slain Bengali during Bangladesh Genocide at the bank of the Brahmaputra river in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. October, 1971

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Inside of the Miller and Shoemaker soda fountain shop, Kansas, 1899.

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Boys playing with a camera. Japan, around 1920

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Taras Bulba-Borovets 1941

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The children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in a formal photo, 1906

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Technician fifth grade Willie Blow, tank driver of a M4A3(75)W Sherman tank from the 784th Tank Battalion attached to the 35th Infantry Division during a rest and refit period in the Venlo area of the Netherlands, March 1945.

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The forward torpedo room aboard the captured German Type IXC submarine U-505 in June, 1944.

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Arthur Clarence Pillsbury on the hood of a “Studebaker Six” about a foot away from the edge at Glacier Point in Yosemite, in 1916. Thirteen others, on the precipice, can be seen near the vehicle.

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General Nagaoka Gaishi of the Imperial Japanese Army, 1920s

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Group of radio actors, mostly from Mexico, who were brought to New York between 1944 and 1945 by MGM to dub their productions into Spanish.

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