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An Eskimo woman with long hair, Nome, Alaska between 1896 to 1913 [462x620]
A deliveryman for the home ice company hauls a 25-pound ice block cleaved from a 100-pound block, Houston, Texas, 1928 [1080 x 1296]
A German POW stares into the camera. Anzio, Italy. February 1944 [2,342 x 2926]
Georgian soldier with his Kalashnikov, smoking next to a 'bust' of former Soviet premier Vladimir Lenin: in Tbilisi, during the Georgian Civil War and War in Abkhazia and South Ossetia: following the independence of Georgia from the former Soviet Union, c. 1991 - 1993. [960 x 630]
German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945 [1600x1256]
Camouflaged road in Finland during WW2. The trees are hanged up with rope so enemy watch towers don't see the road. June 27, 1941 [1501x2083]
Flight Lieutenant H J F Joncas of No. 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, having a haircut in the Tunisian desert, April 1943.[954x1253]
1963 - Houston, TX - JFK Motorcade on November 21 (Colorized by me) [2048x1371]
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Rare picture of Hunter S Thompson and Muhammad Ali together in the late 1970’s, Hunter would go on to refer to Ali as one of the 3 most intimidating individuals he ever met (650 x 355)
Annette Kellerman promotes women's right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing. She was arrested for indecency. (1907) [1180x756]
The flag of the Republic of China at Nanjing Road, Shanghai, 1945, colorized [768×1024]
One of the two only photos ever taken of a *reigning* Chinese Emperor- the Guangxu Emperor- taken secretly by a Frenchman while the Emperor was under House Arrest by the Dowager Empress. Due to various reasons, taking photos of Emperors was unofficially forbidden in China. Nov. 1908 [2925x4256]
Business men sitting around a table, test tasting coffee (Santos, Brazil 1939) [2100x1520]
Jewish people stand in line to receive protective passports in front of the Swedish legation, Vadasz St. Budapest, Hungary 1944 [1,702 × 1,525]
President Kennedy visits the Berlin Wall in June, 1961 [1280x1280]
Al Capone, the famous American gangster, with his son "Sonny" Capone in 1925. [737x960]
Caporal-chef Auguste Apel, of the Foreign Legion, in the "base aéroterrestre" of Na San, Indochina, on December 13, 1952. [492x700]
December 5, 1933: Prohibition is repealed in the US. Coast-to-coast Party! (780x800)
Therese Peltier, the first woman to pilot a heavier-than-air craft, in Turin. 1908. [800 x 500]
Armenians and Turks walking through the streets with slogans saying 'Liberty, Equality, Justice' after the Young Turk Revolution, 1908. [1020x698]
Apollo Astronauts Alan Bean, Neil Armstrong, Bill Anders and Roger Chaffee in New Mexico for geology training, 1964. [1400x1123]
Captured Jewish women in Wesselényi Street, Budapest, Hungary 20–22 October 1944 [800×538]
Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in 1880, the day before his execution. [1200 x 1728]
Gen James Doolittle sitting on the wing of his wrecked B25 bomber in China after his daring raid during WW2.[2046x1840]
Eskimo in Umiaks making way through ice, St. Lawrence Island. Spring 1960 [760x756]
From Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873: A muslim, jewish, and Bulgarian woman, Turkey, 1873. [856 × 1199]
Soldiers awaiting the announcement of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square, October 1, 1949 [1009×1024]
Japanese samurai 1870s(630X500)
American First Lady Pat Nixon christens the first Boeing 747 (Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia 1970) [5311x3440]
Eskimo woman and child fishing for spider crab, near Nome, Alaska between 1913 to 1939 [405x620]
A milkman delivering milk in a street, devastated in a German bombing raid, in the Holborn area of London, 9th October 1940.[1600x1243]
Japanese Dive Bomber shot down by Anti-Aircraft, 1945 [1595x1774]
Afghan guerrilla leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, pictured in 1984 surrounded by fellow rebel commanders. He fought the Soviet invasion, and later the Taliban in northeastern Afghanistan, until his assassination in 2001. [1800x1800]
Captain Frank Raymond Boyles, early 1940s. [2169x3072]
Nancy Sinatra embraces 19-year-old son, Frank Sinatra Jr, after being kidnapped at gunpoint from Lake Tahoe hotel room, 1963 [768×516 !
Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929: The US Stock Market crashes, causing suicides, bank failures and triggering the Great Depression. (800x800)
On this day in 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claimed the first of 7 victims in the Chicago area. Chicago city Health Department employees test Tylenol medicines for cyanide content at a city lab on October 4. The case remains unsolved to date. [1500X1002]
Senator Estes Kefauver holds a copy of Crime SuspenStories #22, whose cover features a man with an ax holding a dismembered head of a woman, then asks EC Comics editor William Gaines if such cover "is in good taste" during the Juvenile delinquency hearings in NYC (April 21, 1954] [798 x 615]
Unidentified young black girl smiling at the camera. Indiana. Circa 1900. [789 x 1102]
Su-25 'Frogfoot' fighter-bomber jet aircraft of the Russian Air Force: over the city of Sokhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia, War in Abkhazia in the Caucasus region of eastern Europe, those jets were conducting air raids on Georgian Army positions in September 1993. [800 x 618]
Young Jean-Claude Fide being treated with Penicillin by his mother (Mont-pres-Chambord, France 1948) [2048x1329]
Federal Councilor Petitpierre lays the cornerstone of CERN (Switzerland 1955) [2038x2048]
Sailors giving a bit of a message with their haircuts, off the coast of Normandy, June 1944 [500 x 389]
1957: Paul Anderson backlifting 2,844kg. The greatest weight ever raised by a human being. [400x386]
Soldier Joseph Wald of the Jewish Brigade holding an artillery shell inscribed "A gift for Hitler" in Hebrew and bearing a Star of David (Jewish symbol), in Italy in 1944-45. Colorization by Refael Ben Zikri from Grafi Design - גרפי דיזיין, from Israel. [955x960]
In 1904 this Viking ship was excavated in Norway. Inside lay two women with the richest grave goods ever found from the area. Who they were is still a mystery. [1183 x 682] For more info feel free to check out the Game-changing history podcast
Transport plane flies over Egyptian Pyramids - 1943 [1678x1342]
British Conservative politician Mabel Philipson, pictured between 1901-1917 [491x750]
Los Angeles, California Gangster Mickey Cohen standing amongst the Front Pages of Newspapers that helped make him the city's most Infamous Citizen - 1960 [1024x681]
Eskimos from East Cape, Siberia in boat on the Snake River, Nome, Alaska, between 1898 and 1908 [768 × 616]
