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Mark Twain at Tesla’s laboratory, 1893. Tesla is in the background. From T.C. Martin, “Tesla’s Oscillators and Other Inventions,” The Century Magazine, 49:916-33 (April 1895), Fig. 13 [200x250].
Georgia State Sen. Jimmy Carter hugs his wife Rosalynn, 1966. The couple has been married for 75 years. According to family lore, the two met the week she was born in 1927. His mother was a midwife who helped deliver her. [1440 x 1080]
German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flamethrower, 1917. [996x1440]
The miller's grandchildren at play, pretending to protect Northbourne Mill at Eastry in Kent, September 1941. [1000x788]
White and black slaves from New Orleans / Photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway, N.Y.[1863],[2147x3376]
A Bulgarian military doctor and paramedic treating a wounded French POW. WW1, Date & Location unknown [1546x1080]
A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El Alamein, 26 October 1942.[603x600]
Prima Ballerina Anna Pavlova with her pet swan Jack, 1927 [563 x 683]
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USSR wins gold in hockey at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada (1988) [1020 x 696]
American paratrooper James Flanagan (2nd Platoon, C Co, 1-502nd PIR), among the first to make successful landings on the continent, holds a Nazi flag captured in a village assault. Marmion Farm at Ravenoville, Utah Beach, France. 6 June 1944. (Source: US Army Archives) [980x803]
Oct. 23, 1984 One year after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings which killed 241 US military personnel, a Lebanese soldier lights a cigarette in the basement of the destroyed US Marine HQ. Departing Marines left a message behind. [609x900]
Sergeant George A. Kaufman of the 9th Army replaces an "Adolf-Hitler-Str." street sign with a hand-made one, "Roosevelt Boulevard". (March 9th, 1945) [1503x1200]
Adolf Hitler and an uncomfortable Helga Goebbels, 1935 - By Heinrich Hoffmann. [741x1200]
East German communist politician and leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) Erich Ernst Paul Honecker, General Secretary of the Communist Party and leader of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, they were being driven, during a hunting trip, East Germany, c. 1971. [800 x 581]
Bavarian boy enjoying his camera, circa 1910 (401x640)
Suffragists protest in front of the White House with a sign denouncing President Wilson, 1917 or '18 [3000x2064]
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Bombs falling and flak exploding during Operation Tidal Wave, which targeted Axis oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania, August 1943. This mission was one of the costliest for the USAAF in the European Theater, with 53 aircraft and 660 air crewmen lost. [640x496]
Knocked out jeep on Iwo Jima, 1945 [2013x2048]
Miss [besieged] Sarajevo, Inela Nogić, 1990s [763x513]
SS Oriana in Sidney, 1960 (640x898)
Edith Piaf reading Django Rheinhardt’s palm in Paris, 1940s. Photo by Michael Ochs. [591X480]
Early X-ray image of a man's head. This image was taken only one year after the discovery of X-rays. At the time, no one knew of the ill effects of radiation. (1896) [771x1108]
North Vietnamese pull U.S airman John McCain out of a lake in 1967. He had ejected from his plane after it had been shot down, and he broke his right leg and both arms while briefly being knocked unconscious from the force. He was held captive by the Viet Cong for over 5 years (750x507)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky & his nephew, Vladimir Davydov in Paris, 1892 [706 x 973]
The Doolittle Raid- On 18 April 1942, Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle led a daring raid on military targets surrounding Tokyo. The raid caused minor damage, but served as a morale boost by striking back at Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack of a few months prior. [816x649]