18 Amazing Photos From History
Nathan Johnson
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01/04/2019
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Carrie Amelia Nation, a radical member of the temperance movement -
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Eva Braun doing yoga by the lake Königssee, Bavaria, 1942 -
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The bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. August 9, 1945 -
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Children in bomb-shelter trenches during the Blitz, England, c. 1941 -
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Seth Kinman, a hunter, entertainer, and one of the earliest settlers of Humboldt County, California, sitting on a chair he gave to President Johnson made out of a grizzly bear. 1865 -
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A young woman of the Ouled Naïl tribe, Algeria, circa 1905 -
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US officer at basment of Nuremburg castle next to the 500 years old statutes robbed by Nazis from Krakow’s St. Mary Cathedral, 1945 -
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Lucille, a Dakota Sioux woman, December 26, 1907 -
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Christmas packages destined for soldiers who have been killed or reported missing in action await “return to sender” stamps. New York City, 1944 -
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Saluting the flag at the Whittier Primary School, Hampton, VA. 1899 -
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Samurai wearing hon iyozane dō, 1870 -
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Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, 1921 -
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Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, illuminated by more than 20 flashes for a photo while trapped in an ice pack on the Weddell Sea during a doomed expedition to Antarctica – August 27, 1915 -
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A Chinese immigrant family in Oregon, 1890s -
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In the final chapter of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. 1890 -
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Juvenile convicts at work in the fields – 1903 -
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Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pa 1895 -
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Last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild. Atlas Mountains of North Africa, 1925
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