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

Malyshka a Russian space dog, poses here in its snug-fitting space suit with a transparent space helmet beside it. 1957

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The Schlörwagen, a German experimental vehicle from 1939 which had a drag coefficient lower than most modern vehicles. It was nearly seven feet wide and had three-row seating for seven. Germany 1939

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On this day in 1964 a US Air Force T39 Sabreliner was shot down by the East German Air Force, 3 people were killed, some of the few confirmed direct casualties of the Cold War

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Left to right: Harriet Tubman; Gertie Davis (Tubman’s adopted daughter); Nelson Davis (Tubman’s husband); Lee Cheney; “Pop” Alexander; Walter Green; Sarah Parker (aunt); Dora Stewart (granddaughter of her brother John Stewart). Ca. 189-.

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Race Russia. Moscow. 1929

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Raft of blanket boats ferrying field artillery and men over the Potomac River in Virginia, July 1863. Photograph by A.J. Russell.

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