It's no doubt that humans have a long and storied history on this planet. Ever since the invention of the very first camera and photograph, we have been documenting our existence in the form of photos. From amazing achievements to tragedies and disasters, there is no shortage of photographs that tell the stories of our past.
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The Twin Towers Under construction 1971.
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An American Mother And Daughter Hold The American Flag In The Early 1900’s
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This Young Boy Was Born In 1924 And He Is 2 Years Old In This Photo. He Died In 1944 In France On A Us Tanker. His Name Is Lonzo Hudgins And He Received A Purple Heart In Ww2.
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Marilyn Monroe In Amagansett, New York, 1957
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The Full Tiananmen Square Massacre ‘Tank Man’ Photo, Is More Powerful Than The Cropped Version
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Homecoming Prisoner Of War - 1946
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The Punt Gun could discharge over a pound of shot at a time that could kill as many as 50 birds. This depleted stocks of wild waterfowl and by the 1860s most US states had banned the practice.
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An Immigrant Family At New York's Ellis Island Is About To Embark On The Chase Of Their Dreams. The 1900s
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Mount St. Helens Eruption, 1980. (Photo By R. Lasher)
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A Dangerous Playground From The 1970s
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Huge New Jersey lobsters, these were not even record-holders.
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George Moore aka The Living Skeleton and Fred Howe aka The Fatman, Two Circus Performers from 1890s.
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LAPD police officers going undercover in 1960 to catch purse snatchers.
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Lockheed Martin Employee Sally Wadsworth Working On The Fuselage Of A P-38 Lightning In California In 1944.
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Sir David Attenborough As A Young Man, Late 1950s.
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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) And His Long-Time Friend John T. Lewis (Probably Twain's Inspiration For The Character "Jim" In "Huckleberry Finn"), Standing Together At Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York - 1903
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Remember that photo of the construction workers having lunch on the unfinished Empire State Building? Well here’s the photographer Charles Ebbets taking that photo on September 20th, 1932.
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First Nations Husband And Wife, (A. Ross, 1886).
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The Sioux Nation Of Native Americans Teepees Spread Across The Great Plains In 1800s
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French tank gunner wearing a British Splatter Mask, October 12, 1918. The splatter mask was designed to help protect a tank crew member’s face from shrapnel when looking through the view ports. The mask was leather and had metal eye covers and a chainmail skirt to cover the mouth and chin.
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A Photo Of An Engineer Wiring An Early IBM Computer, 1958.
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Silent Film Actress, Delores Costello, Drew Barrymore's Grandmother, 1928
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The Huffy Radio Bicycle From The 1950s
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Men In Suspenders Posing On The Brooklyn Bridge
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1984 New York City Subway Ride
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Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, Is Greeted By His Family, Returning Home After More Than Five Years As A Prisoner Of War In North Vietnam
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American Athlete Jesse Owens Fills Up A Car At A Petrol Station In His A Uniform Of Cap, Shirt And Bow Tie. Owens Worked As A Petrol Pump Attendant To Help Finance His Studies At Ohio State University. (United States, 1935)
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Blackfoot Native Americans On The Roof Of The Mcalpin Hotel, Refusing To Sleep In Their Rooms, New York City
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An Italian Child Arriving At Ellis Island, Early 1900s. (Us)
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Telephone Tower, Before They Figured Out Bundling Lines Into Cables. There Are 5000 Lines In This Tower (1890)
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Madison Square, New York City Ca.1900
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Over 3,000 Workers Who Build The Chase Manhattan Bank In New York City Pose For A Photo Near The End Of Constructional Work, August, 1964
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A Man Recording A Cassette Tape At A Music Festival In The 1980s
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In 1938 1800 Veterans Of The Civil War Attended An 75th Anniversary Reunion At Gettysburg, Pa. The Youngest Was 88 Years Old, And The Oldest Claimed To Be 112 Years Old
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Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Photographed In New York City By Richard Avedon, 1963
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Stop When Pedestrians Are In The Crosswalk!
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One Of The First Traffic Signals In New York City, 1922
