30 Little Pictures with a Big History
Mr_Incognito
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02/02/2015
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Strange, cool, and fascinating photos from the past.
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Halftime at the very first Super Bowl. Pictured: Len Dawson, Kansas City Chiefs QB 1967. -
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During the 1900's indigenous people were brought in to be put on display at entertainment venues. -
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Gilbert's Surgical Amphitheater, Medical Class and Staff, 1910. -
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Hitler asking a frostbitten and snow ravaged soldier not to salute him, but to instead rest and recover. Year unknown. -
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Jackie Kennedy kisses the casket of JFK in the Capitol rotunda. Nov. 24, 1963. -
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A young girl who had just escaped from East Germany. -
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Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961. -
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An injured survivor of the Hindenburg disaster calmly smokes a cigarette as he is moved to a hospital from the field at Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937. -
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Secret Service agents walk on both sides of President Theodore Roosevelt's carriage during his inauguration on March 4, 1905. He was the first President to be provided Secret Service Protection. -
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IRA girls searching a man, location and year unknown. -
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Slave Cells. Alexandria, Virginia c. 1865. Photograph shows interior view of a slave pen, showing the doors of cells where the slaves were held before being sold. Building address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA. -
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This is how it was done in Montana, 1901. -
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French soldier walking in a trench in devastated terrain of the Somme, 1916. -
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Mahatma Gandhi's worldly possessions, ca 1948. -
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Cheyenne woman, Oklahoma, c. 1890-1904. -
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Navajo medicine man, Southwest U.S., 1904. -
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Zeppelin over The Pyramids, 1931. -
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Chinese prisoners are used as live targets in a bayonet drill by their Japanese captors, during the Nanking Massacre, November 7, 1938. -
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Medical students with cadavers, date unknown. -
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WWII: A B-17 bomber under construction, Seattle, Washington, Dec. 1942. -
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Ancient Roman ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbeck, Lebanon, c. 1870-1885. -
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The 140-kiloton Chagan nuclear test, Soviet Union, 1965. Hiroshima's" Little Boy" 13-18-kiloton, Nagasaki's "Fat Man" 20-22-kiloton. -
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Paula Hitler, younger sister of Adolf, arrested and interrogated by US intelligence officers. Germany. July 12, 1945. -
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A young Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys Oktoberfest with a friend in 1967, Munich, West Germany. -
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A Ringling Brothers Circus elephant walks out of a train car as young children watch in the Bronx railroad yard in New York City, April 1, 1963. -
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The 7.Panzer-Division in France, 1940. -
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Training activists not to react to provocation, Civil strike, Core group, Virginia, 1960 by Eve Arnold. -
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Shipwrecked survivors of HMAS Armidale clinging to a raft and waving at a Catalina flying boat. Unable to land on violent waters, the survivors were not seen again after this photograph was taken. Coast of East Timor, December 8, 1942. -
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Ty Cobb "sliding" into home,1920. -
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A woman disguised as a war refugee is exposed as a Gestapo Informer. Dessau, Germany, 1945.
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