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

Japanese samurai during the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, circa 1865 [880 x 1196]

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81 years ago today: Left side view of the German airship Zeppelin LZ 129 “Hindenburg” burning at Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937. In this photo, the rear half of the ship is on fire but the ship is still above the ground; nose is pitched sharply upwards. [2967 x 2044]

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Five year old girl, after a day’s work that began at 5am, was tired and refused to be photographed. The mother said, “Oh, she’s ugly, and picking shrimp is very hard on the fingers.” Biloxi, MS, 1911, by Lewis Wickes Hine [640×478]

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Hindenburg above New Jersey, 1936

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John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

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AWB member begs for his life before being executed during a failed invasion of Bophuthatswana during the final days of apartheid (1994)

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