Little Pictures Big History
Mr_Incognito
Published
11/15/2013
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Pop Culture
A collection of images capturing some big moments throughout time.
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Actress Jean Harlow poses with boxer Primo Carnera, 1933 -
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Bonnie and Clyde's car after they were killed, 1934 -
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Dreadnought in dazzle camouflage, it works not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to estimate a targets range, speed and heading. 1919 -
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Civil War veteran Samuel Decker built his own prosthetics after losing his arms in combat. Date unknown -
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Andre Roussimoff, Later known as Andre the Giant. Cannes, France, 1967 -
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Inmates playing chess from their prison cells, by Cornell Capa, 1972 -
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American soldiers shelter in a trench just over a mile from ground zero moments after the detonation of the 43 kiloton nuclear device Simon at the Nevada Test Site, 1953 -
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New Zealand soldiers pose with a captured German Mauser T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle near Grevillers, 1918 -
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Mark Twain smoking a cigar and relaxing on the porch, 1905 -
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Matisse working in bed, his cats at his feet Nice, France,1949 -
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LAPD Officers went undercover and dressed up as women to catch a purse snatcher in 1960 -
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Over 7,000 bags of ornamental gold and silver, obviously looted from private homes by the Nazis, were discovered after Gen. Patton ordered the vault door blown open. All the articles had been flattened by hammers and were intended to be melted down into gold or silver bars. Spring 1945 -
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A man browsing for books in Cincinnati's cavernous old main library. The library was demolished in 1955 -
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The first ever team photo in baseball history, The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, Hoboken, New York 1858 -
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Kwakiutl people in canoes going to a wedding, British Columbia, 1914 -
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An aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb detonation. Taken July 20, 1946 -
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Einstein at the Grand Canyon, 1922 -
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Spanish Civil war arrives in Barcelona. 1936 -
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Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton inspect art treasures stolen by Germans and hidden in salt mine in Germany. April 12, 1945 -
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An American field hospital inside the ruins of a church in Neuvilly, France, 1918 -
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Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination. Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived, 1937 -
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A group of men posing in front of Lynchs Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852 -
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Howard Carter examining the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun, 1922
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