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Boy posing proudly in his double breasted winter coat, Worcester, circa, 1902.

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Picture of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved up to 100.000 Hungarian Jews by issuing Swedish protective passports, June 1944

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The Picture shows Hitler smiling after hearing about France surrender June 17, 1940

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Crisp glass negative of an irish family, 21 of May 1919.

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Adolf Hitler’s Walther PP (.32 ACP), a 50th-birthday gift from the Walther family in 1939, features gold inlays and ivory grips. It sold to a private collector in 1987 for $114,000 and is now estimated to be worth millions.

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A woman paying for her groceries with a check, 1970s.

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Portugal is not a small country! A 1950s postcard comparing Portugal to the USA.

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Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely.

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The 'Casual Ward' trap: Homeless men detained in a London workhouse, forced to chop 448 lbs of wood to pay for their night's sleep (c. 1900).

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Nicoleta Nicolescu, the leader of the Iron Guard's female wing, leads a salute for other Romanian women at a summer camp. Nicolescu would later be detained as a threat to national security. She was tortured for months for information, and then burned alive in a furnace (Romania, 1935) .

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2 girls smile from their fantastic snow fort, circa 1910.

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This is Katherine McHale Slaughterback, otherwise known as Rattlesnake Kate. She fought off 140 rattlesnakes in 1925 using just three bullets and a “No Hunting” sign. (1024x601)

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Boy posing proudly in his double breasted winter coat, Worcester, circa, 1902.

Picture of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved up to 100.000 Hungarian Jews by issuing Swedish protective passports, June 1944

The Picture shows Hitler smiling after hearing about France surrender June 17, 1940

Crisp glass negative of an irish family, 21 of May 1919.

Adolf Hitler’s Walther PP (.32 ACP), a 50th-birthday gift from the Walther family in 1939, features gold inlays and ivory grips. It sold to a private collector in 1987 for $114,000 and is now estimated to be worth millions.

A woman paying for her groceries with a check, 1970s.

Portugal is not a small country! A 1950s postcard comparing Portugal to the USA.

Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely.

The 'Casual Ward' trap: Homeless men detained in a London workhouse, forced to chop 448 lbs of wood to pay for their night's sleep (c. 1900).

Nicoleta Nicolescu, the leader of the Iron Guard's female wing, leads a salute for other Romanian women at a summer camp. Nicolescu would later be detained as a threat to national security. She was tortured for months for information, and then burned alive in a furnace (Romania, 1935) .

2 girls smile from their fantastic snow fort, circa 1910.

This is Katherine McHale Slaughterback, otherwise known as Rattlesnake Kate. She fought off 140 rattlesnakes in 1925 using just three bullets and a “No Hunting” sign. (1024x601)