Vintage

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

Crew of Grumman TBF Avenger scramble to safety after ditching near the carrier. circa 1944 [2000×1317]

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Commander Richard E. Byrd’s First Antarctic Expedition, 1928-1930. The all metal Ford tri-motor airplane, the Elenor Bolling, is offloaded from the flagship SS City of New York to the surface of Great Ice Barrier, April 1929. [2626 x 1626]

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Czech Legionnaires guarding a train in Siberia on a -40C day. By the autumn of 1918, World War I was over and the legionnaires’ distant, beloved Czechoslovakia had been declared an independent nation. [1023 x 728]

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[NSFW] A soldier getting a full body tan at the beach (ca.1940s) [686×1024]

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Wooden synagogue in Zabłudów, Poland, 1930s [2500×1747]

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German soldiers are firing from trench. Suburbs Of Stalingrad. September 1942 [1243×1600]

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