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

106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990 [2400 x 1610]

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The Italian liner Rex arriving in New York in the 1930s. In August 1933 she won the Blue Riband as the fastest ship to cross the Atlantic at the average speed of 28.92 knots, beating SS Bremen’s previous record of 27.92 knots. This would be later beaten by SS Normandie with 29.98 kn. [1737 x 1362]

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Australian and British prisoners of war photographed together with Soviet soldiers after being liberated from a Nazi POW camp in Klein-Wittenberg, April 1945 [960 x 786]

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Marilyn Monroe visiting the troops in Korea after the war C.1954 [1260×765]

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Mussolini’s mugshots. He was arrested for participating in a strike in Bern. 1903. [800×504]

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“A couple of seconds before happiness”, 1955 [2000 × 2391]

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