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

Samurai in Yokohama, Japan. Photo by Felice Beato | 1864–65 [982×1200]

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Martin Luther King Jr. was shielded by his aides from a a mob of hostile whites after being struck by a rock to his head, while leading the march with civil rights demonstrators to protest housing discrimination in Chicago, Illinois. August 5, 1966 [2405 x 2202]

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French President Charles de Gaulle returns from West Germany after fleeing Paris by helicopter during the May 1968 protests. [1280×835]

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The Italian submarine Nichelio meets the Salerno invasion fleet after the surrender of Italy, on 9 September 1943. Note the small black pennant flying at the periscope, the recognition mark to show compliance with the armistice orders. [2164 x 1240]

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Union Square from the window of Ohrbach’s, New York City, ca. 1948. Photograph by Louis Faurer. [1242 × 1882]

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A finnish reindeerpatrol in Jäniskoski, Lappland. 20.02.1940 [4961×3581]

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