Vintage

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

Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division advance in a snowstorm behind a tank in a move to attack the village of Herresbach, Belgium, 28 December 1944

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Found my great grandpa’s WW2 goody box. Complete with Nazi paraphernalia he confiscated from German POWs.

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Tsar Nicholas II giving Princess Anastasia a puff on his cigarette, 1916

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French children salvaging food from the cars of a wrecked train climb on a Moselle River railway bridge destroyed by the retreating Germans in France on Dec. 5, 1944

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Audie Murphy, a Texas sharecropper’s son and fifth-grade dropout who became the most celebrated soldier in the U.S. Army, seen here as a lieutenant in 1945 with the Congressional Medal of Honor around his neck.

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Elderly Civil War Veteran recalls his life to listening children, 1935

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