President Joseph Kasa-Vubu speaking at the independence ceremony. Léopoldvile, Congo. June 30, 1960 [797×556]

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The astonishment of those who saw the camera for the first time while looking at a bridge in Istanbul, 1923. (Colored) 1280×720

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DOROTHY COUNT – The first black girl to attend an All white School in the United States. She’s being mocked and taunted by her white male peers at the Charlotte’s Harry Harding’s School in 1957 [612×413]

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Femme fumant by Atelier Manassé, 1928. The studio flourished in the 1930s in Vienna. It focused on the fluid state of beauty and the “new woman”, confident in her own sexuality [647×864]

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Dating back to 1890 this is perhaps the first photo ever taken of a surfer. The muscled Hawaiian beach man is photographed wearing a traditional loin cloth and shown standing in the shallows holding his rudimentary board. The original owner and the photographer are not known. [1000×663]

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Heat of the battle in Povenets, Karelia (2 July 1942) [3000×2024]

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