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

Workers hurry to cover the portrait of Chairman Mao looming above Tiananmen Square after protesters defaced it with paint-filled eggs, May 23, 1989

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Traffic Jam near the Brandenburg Gate as East Germans move into West Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall – 1989

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A U.S. Marine, killed by Japanese sniper fire, still holds his weapon as he lies in the black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima. February 19, 1945.

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Elvis signing an autograph for 12-year-old Madonna – 1970

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Tibetan monks playing the dungchen at Jagpori Hill, Lhasa, 1938 [800×572]

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A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre (1945)

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