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

1974: Richard Nixon’s resignation speech, from Lafayette Park. The journalist in the center is surrounded by crowds who could see Nixon on the same TV set that he was using as a monitor. (The hand-lettered signs are all anti-Nixon. The one that still stands out: Jail to the Chief)

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Soviet infantry moving through Stalingrad, 1942

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The Mona Lisa returning to the Louvre Museum at the end of WWII – 1945

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Chinese PLA soldiers playing poker, Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979

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Camels search for untainted shrubs and water in the burning oilfields of southern Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1991 photo by Steve McCurry

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German Army soldier sorting ammunition, Eastern Front. 1941.

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