Rare picture in color made by family Boske from Rotterdam (1936). This picture shows how they celebrated Easter in their dinner room. The luxury interior reveals that this was a middle-class family. [1080 x 740]

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An M1917 tank and U.S. Army soldiers on patrol in Lexington, Kentucky to keep peace after a large mob tried to lynch Will Lockett, a black man who is on trial for his murder of a young white girl (February 10/11, 1920)

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Polish Policeman with his dog wearing gas masks, 1930’s [2238×3520]

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Bronze statue of Desiderius Erasmus excavated after WW2 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Statue was buried by the citizens of Rotterdam to prevent the statue from being melted by the Germans. 1945. [400 x 720]

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Robert Ritter, a “racial scientist”, visits a Romani woman accompanied by a police officer (1936) [795×508]

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Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich serving as a volunteer fireman, during the Siege of Leningrad – 1941 [500×372]

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