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

Tinian Island, August 1945. Names which have been etched into the atomic bomb, Fat Man. [2228 x 1756]

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1966: M-497 ‘Black Beetle’ New York Central Railroad Jet Powered Train, set the still-standing US rail speed record of 183.68 mph (295.60 km/h) link in comments [1276×937]

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US President Lyndon Johnson’s bodyguard, Rufus Youngblood, covered with paint and pointing out the anti-Vietnam protesters who threw it, Melbourne, Australia, October 21, 1966 [817×735]

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Cleaning women washing a crucifix, 1938 [665×597]

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Copy negative of a US Navy F-14A Tomcat, Fighter Squadron 211 (VF-211), NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, VA, in flight over burning Kuwaiti oil wells during Operation DESERT STORM. 1 February 1991. [3000 x 2450]

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Aisin Gioro Puyi (far right), the last emporer of China, undergoing reform through labor in a socialist reform camp in China. (1948) [500×375]

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