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c. 1975: Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro on the set of "Taxi Driver." [583x756]
Pope Saint John Paul II meets with Mehmet Agca, the man who attempted to assassinate him, 1983.[600×439]
A photograph of Mrs. Yang, the wife of the Chinese Ambassador to the US. Inscribed on back “To Miss May H. Morgan, from her friend Mrs. Yang. Washington May 28th 1895” [712 × 1096]
Tenement Sweatshop on Ludlow Street, New York City, c. 1889. Taken by Jacob Riis. [1024x823]
A giant snowman measuring 17 feet made by two children in Aberdeen, Scotland 1963 [649x794]
Cape Kennedy, Florida photographed from the Gemini 5 spacecraft. 22 August 1965 [2973 × 3000]
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18 year old Mike Tyson with his trainer Cus D'Amato before his first professional fight in 1985 [940x1421]
Greyhound bus terminal at Los Angeles with ‘Tel-a-Chairs’. A half-hour of TV time cost 25 cents. Circa 1969 [800x800]
A woman named Charlotte Shipley charges her electric car’s battery in her garage with a cord from a hand-cranked electrical generator, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1912 [2048 x 1634]
General Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupation of Nicaragua. Sandino was assassinated on 21 February 1934 by the National Guard forces of General Anastasio Somoza García (Nicaragua c1930) [726x1000]
Richard Nixon at his wife’s funeral, June 1993. [760x488]
U.S. Marine Private Theodore James Miller returns to attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) after two days of combat on Engebi, Eniwetok Atoll, February 1944. Miller would die in combat at Ebon Atoll a month later. [1155 × 1328]
Louis-Victor Baillot, who fought in Napoleon’s army. At the time of his death at the age of 105, he was last living veteran of the Battle of Waterloo. 1897 [1,167 x 1,750]
Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter & Menachem Begin at the Signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, March 26, 1979. [598x398]
A promotional photograph for the Hollywoodland housing development in Los Angeles, circa 1925. The sign was built in 1923. [2150 × 1694]
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Indigenous children pray to the Virgin Mary at St. Eugene’s Mission School, a residential school run by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, c. 1950s. [812 x 1000]
John Glenn entering Friendsship 7 on February 20, 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth. [2158x1506]
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Landing compagnies disembark the French pre-dreadnought battleship Vérité to seize the forts of Piraeus, 12 June 1917.[1600 × 1081]
Mill Creek, Knott County, Kentucky. Completing her mission at a lonely mountain cabin, the Pack Horse Librarian turns up the trail toward similar cabines where she is anxiously awaited. January 11, 1938 [2556 x 2089]
Robert Hector Gray (left) and instructor R. Going (right) in one of the New Zealand Flying School's flying boats, circa 1917. [3679x2414]
Portable changing booths for the beach, circa 1938 [640x512]
Chit Phumisak, a future dissident of Thai politics in his youth, while traveling in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Before 1966, (380×600)
Valencia, Spain, 1937: Crowd outside morgue after air raid during the Spanish Civil War. [1049X704]
Test shot Seminole of Operation Redwing, conducted on the coast of the island of Bogon, part of the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. From May to July 1956, Operation Redwing was a series of 17 nuclear test detonations to test new, second-generation thermonuclear weapons. [1477 x 1180]