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King Island Eskimo woman and child, King Island, Alaska, between 1915 and 1925 [600×826]
300K people thronged the streets of Milan for the burial procession of Giuseppe Verdi, 1901. Earlier, as the 87 year old composer had lain on his deathbed, Italians gathered nearby and spontaneously sang Va pensiero, the patriotic hymn from the Maestro's early opera Nabucco. [1280 x 906]
Sergeant Danny Wright, a patrol Commander in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) enjoys a hard earned drink to celebrate his last patrol in Vietnam. Nui Dat, 1971 (750 x 727)
The First Permanent Photograph. 1825. [1280 x 890]
John Brown holding a flag, 1846 [2,334 × 3,233]
A Jewish women waiting before her deportation to the Westerbork camp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 1942. [400x564]
A Vietcong prisoner awaits interrogation, 1967.Credit...National Archives (2048*1396)
Soldier of the Indian Army Service Corps and mule with gas masks in France - WW2 (Colorized) [1080x785]
Combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry fly over an RTO and his commander, during Operation Pershing, Vietnam, 1967-68. [1024 x 767]
A French boy introduces himself to newly arrived Indian soldiers in Merseilles, France in WWI, 1914 [1755x1227]
Treasure Island at the British Empire exhibition, 1925 [720x551]
Micheal Collins Inspects a Troop during the Irish war of independence 1921 (345:550)
American soldiers being dropped off in the Vietnam War, 1965. (700x456)
Buzz Aldron on the moon 1969. (700x464)
1963 - Operators in Holland giving directions to callers who would inquire about driving directions before they left their home on a trip. ©ANP [1536X1888]
Interior of the State Hermitage Museum. Crucifixion of San Pietro by Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio (Leningrad today Saint Petersburg, Russia 1991) [2048x1373]
The young King Michael I salute his forces during a military parade, around him other members of the Royal Family can be seen. Romania, 1929. [1024x742]
Australian Soldier Jon Church as part of the UN Aid in Rwanda, providing medical aid in the aftermath of the Kibeho Massacre. An estimated 4000 people were killed. Jon would later be killed along with 17 other men in 1996 - one of the worst training accidents in Australian history. 1995 [927 x 519]
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Wilbur Wright flies around the Statue of Liberty (1909) [660x761]
Obituary image of Paul Rebalde Brooks, a 20-year-old scare actor who was killed on October 31, 1986 after falling between the two tram cars while “attacking” the moving tram during first-ever Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood [438 x 702]
Thessaloniki Greece, 1943 [720x716]
USS North Carolina BB-55 passes through the Panama Canal on the way to the East Coast after the Japanese Surrender - October 1945 - LIFE Magazine Archives - Photographer Thomas McAvoy [1440 x 1058]
Rob the para-dog receives the Dickin Medal for Gallantry, the highest award for valor given to animals by the UK, from Gen Philip Sidney in Jan 1945. Rob is the only dog to be awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal and the RSPCA Red Collar for Valour – as well as a lifetime supply of biscuits [2980 x 2200].
Pope John Paul II Skiing (Adamello Mountain, Italy 1984) [1654x2048]
Bosporus Strait, Anadolu Kavağı, İstanbul, Türkiye, Anatolia, Asia. 1870's [1001x791]
