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

“Onlookers on the first day of evacuation from the Japanese quarter (Japanese internment camps) in San Francisco, who themselves will be evacuated within three days.” By Dorothea Lange, San Francisco, California, April 1942

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A futuristic grocery shopping trip envisioned at the General Motors Pavilion at the World’s Fair, New York in 1964

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Indian soldiers In Mesopotamia, 1918, during World War I. As other soldiers run for the cover of slit trenches, an Indian Lewis gun team engage an enemy aircraft.

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Western Union telegraph office, Devonshire Street, Boston, 1894

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13-year-old Chinese military laborer Chen Youli, Burma, 1944.

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Secretary of War Henry Stimson is blindfolded as he draws the first number for the United States’ first peacetime military draft lottery in Washington, D.C. on 29 October 1940

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