Vintage

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

Inhabitants of Pola leave for Italy after the city’s annexation by Yugoslavia, 1947. In a few months, 28,000 of the 32,000 inhabitants of Pola left, 16,000 of them on the steamer Toscana.

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A group of men being taught how to use condoms for the first time in Papua, Indonesia.

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The Perisphere, a modernistic structure which was the centerpiece of 1939 New York World’s Fair. It was connected to the spire-shaped Trylon by what was at the time the world’s longest escalator

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American and Soviet soldiers drink a toast to victory, Germany, 1945

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Pfc. Abraham Mirmelstein holds the Holy Scroll as Capt. Manuel M. Poliakoff and Cpl. Martin Willen conduct Jewish services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Münchengladbach, Germany, March 18, 1945

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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) seen over West Newton Street, South End, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1930

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