Vintage

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

A man wears a wooden ‘cangue’ around his neck as he is being punished by starvation for a crime in Shanghai, China in 1874

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Hay Making, Economy, Pennsylvania, c. 1880.

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Two U.S. Army soldiers (one of them not in uniform) helped a badly beaten black man get away from a hostile white mob in downtown Detroit during the 1943 Detroit race riot, June 21

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Stalin in 1902,

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“American Girl in Italy” (Florence, 1951)

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A Parisian girl holds her hands high in the victory sign as American troops pass through Paris on their way to the front after the French capital was liberated, August 25, 1944.

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