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

President Calvin Coolidge awards the Medal of Honor to Henry Breault, the only enlisted submariner to ever receive such an honor after he bravely headed back into a stricken submarine to rescue his sleeping friend [March 8th, 1924]

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South Korean women weep as they listen to President Syngman Rhee speak at a memorial service in Seoul, October 17, 1953. The service honored the 33,964 South Koreans killed in the last year of the war

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Sharon Tate on the set of Valley of the Dolls, 1967

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A group of American soldiers poses with an M1917 Browning machine gun, holstered M1917 .45 revolvers, Brodie helmets and gas masks, ca. 1917

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A Vietnamese policeman attempts to put out the fire as a Buddhist monk burns to death in front of Saigon’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Oct. 27, 1963 by Horst Faas

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The first known photograph of someone giving the middle finger – baseball pitcher Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn of the Boston Beaneaters flipping off the photographer in a team photo, 1886 (Radbourn is in the back row on the far left)

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