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

The Queen and Princess Elizabeth talk to a camouflaged sniper during a tour of Airborne forces, 19 May 1944. [1280×960]

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The child of a KKK member touches his reflection in an African American police officer’s riot shield during a demonstration [1992] [730×959

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Escaping from East Berlin on the first morning of the construction of the wall. 1961. [1020×1000]

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An American soldier comforted another whose buddy had been killed in action in the Haktong-ni area, Korea. In the background the corpsman methodically filled out casualty tags. (Aug 28,1950) [733×603]

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The marine and the kitten. Korean War, 1952. Credit: Marine Corps Archives. [1150×1442]

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Portrait of a Chinese soldier, 13-year-old Li Zhanhong, who had already attached himself to a Chinese regiment by the age of ten and seen nearly three years of intermittent combat against Imperial Japanese forces. Near Kunming, Yunnan, Republic of China. 23 November 1944. [1169 x 1449]

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