19 Fascinating Photos Collected From History
interesting stuff from the history vault. Let's learn all about the past and some interesting and strange fun facts. Like, oh gosh, what was up with world wars. It would really suck to be in one of those.
interesting stuff from the history vault. Let's learn all about the past and some interesting and strange fun facts. Like, oh gosh, what was up with world wars. It would really suck to be in one of those.
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African-American, sharecropper & mother teaching her children numbers and alphabet at home in Transylvania, Louisiana in 1939.
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A series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing as many as 135,000 people. It was the single most destructive bombing of the war—including Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945
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Newly liberated Jewish survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp are joined by Jewish U.S. Army soldiers who helped liberate the camp for the first day of Shavuot religious service conducted by U.S. Army chaplain Rabbi Herschel Schachter. 18 May 1945.
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Miners using an “aerial tram” to descend into the Kimberly Diamond Mine in South Africa, ca. 1885
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Partisan before hanging out of the Nazis shouting:”Death to fascism,freedom to people” 1944
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The remains of Vladimir Komarov, after he died due to parachute failure of Soyuz I, 24 April 1967
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B-17 bombers encounter heavy flak fire over Merseburg, Germany c.1944
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Polish children await physical examinations, the passing of which would allow them to be adopted by German families. Failure led to the death camps. c.1940.
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Brothers Sril and Zelig Jacob shortly after their arrival at Auschwitz, 1944.
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Marine First Lieutenant Hart H. Spiegal of Topeka, Kansas, uses sign language as he tries to strike up a conversation with two tiny Japanese soldiers captured on Okinawa. The boy on the left claims he is “18” while his companion boasts “20” years. 1945
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Man standing on lap of colossal figure of Ramses, 1856
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A Meccan merchant with his Circassian slave. (1886-1887)
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Gym aboard The Titanic, 1912
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Class Divide in Britain, 1930’s
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An advertisement for a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina.
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A black Union soldier sits, posted in front of a slave auction house on Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864
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The American Look in 1945 according to the department store, Lord & Taylor
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Cowboys sit around Bob Leavitt’s Saloon in Jordan, Montana, 1904
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Cowboys drinking at a saloon in Tascosa, Texas 1907
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