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

Signatories of the Armistice ending World War I in front of the wagon where the meeting was held. Marshal Fernand Foch is surrounded by the British Admirals Hope and Rosslyn Wemyss. Compiègnes, France. November 11, 1918. [545×719]

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John Marshall Jr. (1758 – 1843), a delagate to Continental Congress, photographed here in 1840. [200 x 250]

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Otis H. Shears with Jim McLaughlin, prior to gas attack and imprisonment by Germans as POWs – Argonne Forest, France in 1917. [1024×746]

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Seth Kinman, a hunter, entertainer, and one of the earliest settlers of Humboldt County, California, sitting on a chair he gave to President Johnson made out of a grizzly bear. Photograph taken in c. 1865. [1997 x 2394]

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Mugshot of Nikolai Vasiliyevich Abramov who was arrested and executed during Stalin’s Great Terror, 1937. [1023 x 1317]

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Joseph Merrick photographed in 1886 [442×740]

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