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Two brothers, seated for a family photo in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. Shortly after this photo, the two boys were deported and did not survive the Holocaust (1944)
Londoners go about daily life in Fleet Street as smoke rises after the explosion of a German V1 flying bomb 6/30/1944
Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as ‘comfort girls’ for the troops, 1939-1945.
My uncle, Walter Jackson, served as a Private First Class in the 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He gave his life during the Korean War and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. He is memorialized outside the courthouse in Gainesville, Florida.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study participants with a nurse, Alabama 1932, for 40 years the US government secretly withheld Syphilis treatment from 399 Black men to study the disease’s natural progression (600 × 440 pixels)
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Coal miner’s child in grade school. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946. National Archives, Russell Lee photographer
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“After the battle” two cats wrapped in bandages 1914-1918
We are going to bury Hitler face down’ — American postcard from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing Hitler in a coffin. Artist: B. F. Long.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and others look on, July 2, 1964. LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton.
During the siege of Leningrad in 1943, Belle the hippo survived the war thanks to her caretaker, Yevdokia Dashina.
A matter of perspective. Commentary on how both sides of the Cold War saw themselves as standing small against a great threat. 1980s
The Addis Wedding Set, 1985
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