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112 year-old Teimruz Vanacha (left), veteran of WWI and the Russian Civil War, with his son Ivan, a veteran of WWII, in 1980 [750 x 926].

These fantastic photo was taken in Allentown , PA. They have a Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer quality to them. Three kids hamming it up for the camera. And the dog! Circa early 1900s. (800x640)

Employee Cafeteria @ Disneyland - 1961 [1600x1180]

The Statue of Liberty - Paris, France - 1886 (before it was transported to America) [574x894]

Tibetan serfs celebrate their liberation by burning the leases which previously bound them for life to a landlord's plot. (1959) (1024X723)

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Hippie commune girl by Roberta Price, California 1969 [563 x 803]

This photo was taken 14 hours after the explosion of the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl plant on 26th April 1986 by Ukrainian photographer Igor Kostin. The view is foggy due to radiation. (477 × 680)

Spent artillery shell casings from the Battle of the Somme, 1916. [1600x1235]

A U.S. Navy gunboat stops a South Vietnamese junk for a search in the South China Sea near Da Nang, South Vietnam. 1969. [2048x1392]

Bloody Bill Anderson before the Centralia Massacre - Summer 1864 [442 × 561]

An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in the cockpit of an airplane during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport the youngster to a field hospital. July, 1944. [640x541]

University students crammed into a large jar at the Summer Palace in Beijing, 1946 [869x1200]

'The Big Wind' , created by Hungarian Engineers using an old T-34 and two MiG-21 Jet Engines. It was abled to put out oil fire with a single blow. The photo was taken in Kuwait, 1991 [ 1080X723 ]

US President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, upon President Olympio’s arrival (Washington D.C., USA 1962) [1000x980]

1942 Anti-Hitler parade depicting him as a knight riding an armored dinosaur (looks pretty awesome ngl) [579x612]

Crew relaxing on deck of the USS Monitor, James River, VA, July 1863 (2000x1689)

Overcoming initial light resistance on the beaches after landing in Sicily on 10 July 1943, 1st Canadian Infantry Division units push rapidly inland for first few days of Operation Husky. [1300x1300]

Blue Horse, Oglala Sioux, 1900. Photo by F.A. Rinehart [605x796]

NYC protest, July 7, 1941 [750x433]

Zaros,Vrontisios Monastery (Crete,Greece). Nelly's - 1939 [960 x 622]

A crowd in Willis Street, Wellington awaits the results of the 1931 New Zealand general election. [5079x3825]