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

An ARP warden comforts a crying girl during the Blitz, 1939-45.

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A diver as he ascends from the oily interior of the sunken battleship USS Arizona (BB 39) . Photograph released May 23, 1943.

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Indian Police motorcycle with a mounted sidecar machine gun. New York City, May 16 1918

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A nuclear test in the Marshall Islands, 1946.

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Folk artists Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger play guitar and banjo, c.1950. This would be one of Guthrie’s last shows.

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Chinese suicide bomber putting on an explosive vest made out of Model 24 hand grenades to use in an attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang, 1938.

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