RARE HISTORIC PHOTOS WE MIGHT HAVEN’T YET SEEN
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
Job Hunting In 1930’s
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
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Portrait of Gaetano Trentanove by DCPL Commons
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Gaetano Trentanove (1858-1937) was an Italian sculptor who has three works within the District of Columbia. The first is of Jacques Marquette and in located in statuary hall within the US Capitol. Next is a statue of Albert Pike located in Judiciary Square. The last is located in Scott Circle and is of Daniel Webster. Ca. 1900
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Dog with pipe, 1940s (via)
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Training Camp Activities. Bayonet fighting instruction by an English Sergeant Major, Camp Dick, Texas, ca. 1917 - ca. 1918 by The U.S. National Archives
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Original Caption: Training Camp Activities. Bayonet fighting instruction by an English Sergeant Major, Camp Dick, Texas, ca. 1917 - ca. 1918 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier:165-WW-146B(16) From: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, compiled 1917 - 1918 (Record Group 165) Created By: War Department. (1789 - 09/18/1947) Production Date:ca. 1917 - ca. 1918 Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=533637 Repository: NARA's Still Picture Records Section, National Archives at College Park (College Park, MD) Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
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The "Human Squirrel" who did many daring "stunts" in climbing for benefit of War Relief Funds in New York City. by The U.S. National Archives
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Original Caption: The "Human Squirrel" who did many daring "stunts" in climbing for benefit of War Relief Funds in New York City. He is shown here at a dizzy height in Times Square. Times Photo Service., ca. 1918 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier:165-WW-578B(6) From: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, compiled 1917 - 1918 (Record Group 165) Created By: War Department. (1789 - 09/18/1947) Production Date:ca. 1918 Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=533754 Repository: NARA's Still Picture Records Section, National Archives at College Park (College Park, MD) Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
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Children chatting to troops passing through to an attack on Irregulars Stronghold by National Library of Ireland on The Commons on Flickr.
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Postcards written in 1930 from British war poet Siegfried Sassoon, which were found in a book in an Oxfam charity shop in Herne Hill, London, more than eighty years after they were written.
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