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Labor union members in Newark, New Jersey march against Prohibition, carrying signs that read, “We Want Beer,” October 31, 1931.
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Jan van HUYSUM, Bouquet of Flowers (detail) Dutch painter (b. 1682, Amsterdam, d. 1749, Amsterdam) Bouquet of Flowers (detail)
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London’s Liverpool Street Station acting as an underground shelter during the Blitz, 1940. Bill Brandt Source: museumoflondon.org.uk
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An air-raid warden phones from a shattered booth after a bombing raid. London, 1940. George Rodger Source: magnumphotos.com
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The third telegram about the sinking of the Titantic.
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The first telegram about the sinking of the Titantic.
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The second telegram about the sinking of the Titanic.
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A Ride Through San Francisco April 1906 a week before the great earthquake
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Folsom Street, San Francisco after the Great Earthquake of April 18th, 1906.
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Immigrant ship arriving at Ellis Island.
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Bombardment of Barcelona in 1938 by the (fascist) Italian air force during the Spanish Civil War.
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Robert Capa Spain, Madrid. Winter 1936-1937, after an Italo-German air raid. The Nationalist offensive on Madrid, which lasted from November 1936 to February 1937, was one of the fiercest of the Civil War. During this period fascist Italy and Germany started helping the Nationalist forces, while the USSR aided the Popular Front government.
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“In Line At The Land Office, Perry, Sept. 23, 1893. 9 o’clock A.M. waiting to file.” From the Bureau of Land Management series: Opening of the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma Territory, 1893 The Homestead Act of 1862, which provided the basis for land claims such as these, turns 150 years old on May 20. Source: research.archives...
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William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was a US soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory, in LeClaire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US Army as a scout.
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*Late 1930's - German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian children of Jewish descent were permitted to leave their countries and families on the Kindertransport; a train bound for Britain. These children ranged in age from infant to 17 and were placed with families in Britain. Many never saw their parents again.
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Entebbe hostages arrive in Israel. On June 27 1976, an Arab-German cell of the PFLP hijacked an Air France plane and diverted it to Entebbe, Uganda. Crew and non-Jewish hostages were freed. With no diplomatic end in sight, Israel sent a rescue mission which flew 2,500 miles at an altitude of only 100 ft to avoid radars. Israelis stormed Entebbe's airport and freed the hostages. The Air France pilot (photo), though not Jewish, refused being liberated by the hijackers and stayed with the hostages
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Women's barracks in Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland
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Anon. Free Person of Color, Fauberg Treme New Orleans, circa 1860's.
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Neil MacGregor The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BCE on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, founders of the White Rose Resistance Movement, a German group, composed of young college-aged students, which resisted the Nazis through the publishing and distributing of anti-Nazi literature. They were executed by the Nazis in 1943.
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The Coronation procession for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth showing coach and horses on the Embankment in London
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Crowds line the streets as the carriage carrying King George VI on coronation day through Admiralty Arch in central London
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the photographer who took this picture: David Handschuh: When only one plane had hit the World Trade Center, I was going to the site of an airplane crash and this horrible fire burning sixty, seventy floors up. There was no doubt in my mind that the firefighters, paramedics and police officers would put out the fire, rescue people, and everything would be okay. I was standing in front of the south tower when it got hit by the second plane and realized that what happened was very intentional, ...
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Professor Bell opening the line between New York and Chicago [from Sun and Shade, 1895]
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A German soldier at the Battle of Stalingrad, 1942.
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Denazification in Krefeld, Germany, March 9, 1945. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - A horse-drawn fire engine en route to the burning factory. 1911.
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Photograph of an unknown man during the Depression c.1932
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Unidentified Photographer, Evacuation of the Louvre Art Treasury – The “Raft of the The Winged Victory evacuated from the Louvre in a truck that usually carries stage scenery, 1939
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Unidentified Photographer, Evacuation of the Louvre Art Treasury – The “Raft of the Medusa” of Gericault evacuated from the Louvre in a truck that usually carries stage scenery, 1939
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Paula Patinella you can't believe everything you read; for example the first two telegrams....so sad