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Historical photographs and pictures taken in the context of a verifiable, historically significant event.

Sumo wrestler Haguroiwa (left) pushes Taiho out of the ring at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in a controversial match that would come to be called “The Error of the Century”, Tokyo, Japan, March 1969

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An old Italian woman shows her gratitude to one of the American soldiers following the liberation of Italy, 1945

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry after his crash in the Libyan desert, 1935

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The ruins of the Senate Chambers of the Missouri State Capitol, after the fire of 5th February, 1911, after the dome was struck by lightning

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A German machine-gun nest and dead gunner at Villers Devy Dun Sassey, France, on November 4, 1918—one week before the end of the war

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Fulton Street Dock, Manhattan, New York City, 1935

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