Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in a Mexico city jail, 1956 [1024 x 899]
1971, A Little Boy Running Away From Injection , Terrified of Being Vaccinated Against Cholera at a Refugee Camp Outside Calcutta,India [1024 x 807]
Us-soldiers stationed at Fulda (near the border to Eastern-Germany) throwing a christmas party for orphans and children in need, Germany 1950s [1400x1400]
When the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, a resident was seated on the stone steps outside of Sumitomo Bank. But seconds later, they were incinerated in the boiling light. In their place was a shadow that served as a horrifying relic of their final moments. [600x900]
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Two US Army MPs are slightly amused “interrogating” two German grade school children pressed into military service as the war was winding down in 1945. In general, any German “soldier” under 17 was briefly interrogated and then allowed to return home. [900x1004]
Nelson Mandela walks out of the gates of Victor Verster prison (Paarl, South Africa 1990) [2000x1333]
Stetson Kennedy an activist who infiltrated the KKK, poses in KKK garb, 1947. (980x1288)
Children gather for a parade celebrating the success of the Chernobyl power plant in April 1986, a few weeks before the nuclear disaster. Plant director Viktor Brukhanov (in hat and tie) is visible on the far right. At the time, children made up more than a third of Pripyat’s population. [1160x776]
Soldiers from the Indian Army, at a sign saying „Welcome to 'What Was' Pakistan, By Courtesy The Golden Hawk” on the border of India and East Pakistan. During the Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, photo c. December 1971. [1600 x 984]
The Iranian Royal Family in St. Moritz. Switzerland, 1975. [2048x1383]
28-year-old Marcy Borders, who worked at the Bank of America located in the World Trade Center and survived its collapse, is photographed completely covered in dust. September 11 2001 [1333 x 2000]
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Crew of a German U-boat perform calisthenics on the deck of their submarine, Atlantic Ocean, December 1943 [1024 x 712]
“Forget Me Not”- A sailor and his tattoos, 1920s [600x903]
Hungarian refugees on a bus in Wellington - 1956. New Zealand accepted 1,117 refugees from Hungary between 1956 and 1959. [3026x3011]
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A fisherman, 1930, Istanbul, Turkey, [1002x567]
World’s biggest baseball player (450lbs), 1908 [648x1024]
Photo from the Dir. de Paseos Collection (Museo de la Ciudad), taken somewhere in Parque 3 de Febrero, City of Buenos Aires, c. 1916. Book "Images of Buenos Aires" (1997). [680x504]
Squadron Leader Brian Lane is debriefed after a sortie. The strain of five months of combat sorties shows on his face. RAF Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire. 19th September 1940. [800x593]