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Albert Dryden at the moment he shot Harry Collinson. The murder was captured on camera, 1991. [976x549]
American soldiers suffering from Shell Shock (PTSD) take up gardening to help them recover from the trauma they suffered on the front lines, Fort McPherson, Georgia, June 25, 1918 (1145x868)
A young woman making adjustments on the lovely dress she has sewn with her singer sewing machine. 1920s [564x775]
Unpacking Mona Lisa after the end of World War ll in 1945. [828x853]
A homeless Russian man attempts to light a cigarette in the entrance to his makeshift shelter. His shelter is part of a large shantytown that has been constructed near the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, 1990 (1144x754)
Fabio after getting hit by a goose on a ride at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1999. [1500 x 1000]
Artoria Gibbons - 1920 and 1979. She was one of the last Tattooed Ladies to perform as she was doing it more for the love of the performance art than the money. [879x657]
cathedral, London, during the German bombing campaign. December 29th, 1940. (800 × 618)
The bodies of Sikh pilgrims lie on the ground after the Golden Temple massacre. Under Operation Blue Star, Indian soldiers raided the temple, the holiest site in the Sikh religion, and killed nearly 500 people. The troops executed hundreds of civilians after they came out hiding, 1984, [437 x 573].
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A man pulling a woman sitting on a rickshaw in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1940s[602x473]
Typewriting Class For Women, Blackheath Road Evening Institute, London, 1914.[680x559]
Workers assembling a Model T Ford at the Highland Park plant, Michigan. 1913.[2048x1559]
Gina Lollobrigida, in 1950 at the Museo del Prado, photographed next to Goya's painting: La maja vestida, one of the best-known works by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. Made in oil on canvas, it measures 95 cm high and 188 cm wide, and was painted between 1800 and 1808. Colorized 2400x1948
Space Shuttle Columbia as it lifts off from Launch Pad 39A on the ill-fated mission STS-107. 16 January 2003 [2024 × 3000]
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Marilyn Monroe performing on stage in front of thousands of troops during Korean War. Korea. 1954.[1242x979]
Green, Dublin circa 1899-1907 [2000x1656]
A bugler and soldier on guard outside Camp Gillem during the Modoc War, early 1873. #OTD 150 years ago, 300 soldiers tried storming Captain Jack’s Stronghold. By the end of the day, the Army lost 37 men; the Modoc did not lose a single warrior. [1153x1091]
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US Chief Justice Melville Fuller administers the presidential oath of office to William McKinley, 1897. Outgoing president Grover Cleveland, who had appointed Fuller, looks away at the right. [843x524]
Burial at sea of Setsuo Ishino, the kamikaze pilot who struck the port side of the USS Missouri on April 11, 1945. After his body was retrieved from the wreckage of the plane, on orders from Captain William Callaghan, sailors buried him with full military honors. April 1945 [1024x640].
African boy selling special edition of L'Echo Du Katanga after announcement of Patrice Lumumba's death. An African nationalist and pan-Africanist, Lumumba played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony into an independent republic (Congo-Léopoldville 1961) [2867x1927]
Massachusetts militiamen confront a group of striking workers protesting for higher wages. Also known as the 1912 Lawrence textile strike. [496 x 395]
A beautician in the newly-opened Bare Leg Beauty Bar at Kennard's store in Croydon, paints stockings onto a customer's skin during stocking rationing, London, England in 1941 [447x612]