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

A Sikh soldier of the British-Indian Army’s 4th Division holds up a captured Nazi flag. Italy, may 1945

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Japanese battleship “Yamato” blows up, following multiple attacks by U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa, 7 April 1945

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Anti-aircraft fire at the Battle of Okinawa, March 1945. Photograph by W. Eugene Smith

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Howard Hughes’ giant flying boat Spruce Goose being readied for its first and only flight, 2nd November 1947

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New York City street corner. 1956

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Renty, a man of Congolese origin who was enslaved on a cotton plantation near Richland County, South Carolina March 1850

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