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

Erich “The Black Devil” Hartmann, the most successful fighter pilot in the history of aerial warfare with 352 aerial victories, 1943.

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While on a bombing run over Salaam, New Guinea and before its capture by Allied forces, photographer Sgt. John A. Boiteau aboard an Army Liberator took this photograph of a B-24 Liberator. Jan. 1943. Add’l info in comments. [756 × 600]

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Mississippi River boats, Vicksburg… 1900.

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Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession at the corner of 6th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, 1865

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The headquarters of Mussolini’s Italian Fascist Party, 1934.

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Test firings of the Holman Projector. An anti-aircraft mortar that made use of compressed air to fire projectiles. 1940.

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