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16/09/2024

Ashtrays and coin-operated televisions in the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal, 1969

14/02/2024

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (left), and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (right), riding in a carriage together, circa 1913. Nicholas and Wilhelm were third cousins to each other.

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A boy from Tarvastu, Estonia photographed with a wooden bicycle that he built. Photograph taken by Johannes Pääsuke in 1912.

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A young driver photographed by Lewis Hine in September 1908. A “driver” in a coal mine was responsible for guiding the horses carrying coal in and out of the mine.

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35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy, Vice President (36th US President) Lyndon B. Johnson, and ex-Presidents Harry S. Truman (33rd) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th), at the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York, 10 November 1962.

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Two French soldiers of the 23rd Infantry Regiment photographed by Frantz Adam in a trench, likely in the Péronne area, on the road between Péronne and Maricourt in late July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.

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Center Market Place in New York City photographed by Andreas Feininger in 1940.

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A group of children employed by the Alabama Canning Company as oyster-shuckers at their factory in Bayou La Batre, Alabama photographed working in February 1911. Lewis Hine noted that that their shoes were in terrible condition due to standing on the rough shells for a long time.

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Women from the Swedish National Association for Women's Suffrage (LKPR) at the 6th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1911.

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1912 original color photo of the city of Tobolsk, Russian Empire, taken from Assumption Cathedral looking northwest. Photograph taken by pioneering color photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.

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A foggy day in Amsterdam, the Netherlands photographed by Bernard Eilers near the Royal Palace in 1910.

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8ft 11.1in (2.72m) tall Robert Wadlow posing for a family photograph, 1939.

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People relaxing on a hot day at Battery Park in New York City in circa 1910-1915.

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The Fulton Fish Market in New York City photographed by Berenice Abbott in 1936.

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A dockworker photographed by Gordon Parks at Fulton Fish Market in New York City in 1943.

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A photograph of the 'Robert Preston Wholesale & Retail Brush' shop on the High Street in Gateshead, United Kingdom. Photograph taken in circa 1880s. To the left of Robert Preston's was a bootmaker called J. Caddes and to the right was T. McCoy, a furniture dealer.

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Alexander Millener, one of the last veterans of the American Revolutionary War, was born in Quebec on March 14th, 1760, making him 104 years old when this photo was taken in 1864. He enlisted in the Continental Army originally as a drummer boy in George Washington’s Life Guard unit. He was ”at the battles of White Plains, Brandywine, Saratoga, Monmouth, Yorktown, and some others.” He spent a total of 6 and a half years in the army.

13/02/2024

Unidentified British soldier photographed by a local French photographer called Alfred Depire for a few francs to send home as postcards to their families. This photograph was taken in the summer of 1916 in the village of Warloy-Baillon, with the front line of the Battle of the Somme taking place less than 10 miles away.

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