Vintage

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

Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, illuminated by more than 20 flashes for a photo while trapped in an ice pack on the Weddell Sea during a doomed expedition to Antarctica – August 27, 1915 [742 x 1007]

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“A British sniper demonstrates his camouflage at a sniper school in a French village, 27 July 1944. He is wearing a German camouflage smock.” [1581×2480]

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Alcohol being dumped, after being discovered by Prohibition agents during a raid on an illegal distiller (Detroit, Dec 10, 1929). [1200 x 1081]

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Patrice Lumumba, first democratically elected Prime Minister of the independet Republic of the Congo, short before his execution, after being captured by Colonel Joseph Mobutu’s rebel troops on his attempt to flee to his stronghold at Stanleyville. Leopoldville, Congo, December 6, 1960.[1559×1239]

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Italian 194-mm railway gun and its calculation. 1944 (link in comments) [800×622]

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colorized picture of the arrival of the US soliders from france ,march 20 ,1919 [5176×2290]

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