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

A rare meteorological phenomenon. A lightning bolt discharge strikes the water plume from a U.S. Navy detonated depth charge following a test. Chesapeake Bay, Oct. 24, 1957. Add’l info in comments. [2212 x 2737]

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The first Saltair pavilion, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1900 [1024×794]

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German soldier returns home only to find his family no longer there, 1946 [1227×1600]

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This is how India’s First Rocket was transported in 1963 [700 x 368]

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A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945 [800×1101]

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Fred Rogers and producer-director Sam Silberman on the set of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” at WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1971 [497×810]

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