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#2

When They Realized Women Were Using Their Sacks To Make Clothes For Their Children, Flour Mills Of The 1930s Started Using Flowered Fabric For Their Sacks. (1939)

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242points

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Jill Rhodry 3 months ago

These days they'd charged extra for printed or even better, force you onto a subscription service - but that's neo-capitalism I guess.

84points

#3

Cop Stops The Traffic In New York So A Mother Cat Holding A Kitten Can Cross Safely C.1925

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237points

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G A 3 months ago

Aw, bless!

37points

Since we’re on the subject of historical photos, one that stands out is the ‘Lunch Atop A Skyscraper.’ For the uninitiated, it shows a row of 11 construction workers enjoying lunch seated on a steel beam 850 feet above the streets of Manhattan.

The photograph was taken on September 20th, 1932. According to Smithsonian Mag, it was a publicity stunt to create a buzz for the imminent completion of what turned out to be the Rockefeller Center. And yes, it is all real.

#4

100,000 Iranian Women March Against The Hijab Law, Tehran 1979

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226points

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Kiyoko_tanaka 3 months ago

Good for them! No one should be forced to wear a Hijab.

92points

#5

Albert Einstein Defying The Prevailing Racial Climate At The Time By Visiting Lincoln University, Pennsylvania — The First Degree-Granting Black College In The Us — To Teach A Class. He Was An Outspoken Civil Rights Advocate For Black Americans. Photographed In 1946

Albert Einstein Defying The Prevailing Racial Climate At The Time By Visiting Lincoln University, Pennsylvania — The First Degree-Granting Black College In The Us — To Teach A Class. He Was An Outspoken Civil Rights Advocate For Black Americans. Photographed In 1946

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224points

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Honeybadger 3 months ago

Relatively impressive

69points

#6

Charles Thompson Greets His New Classmates At Public School No. 27 In September 1954, Less Than Four Months After The Supreme Court Ruled That Racial Segregation Was Unconstitutional. Charles Was The Only African-American Child In The School. Photo By Richard Stacks For The Baltimore Sun

Charles Thompson Greets His New Classmates At Public School No. 27 In September 1954, Less Than Four Months After The Supreme Court Ruled That Racial Segregation Was Unconstitutional. Charles Was The Only African-American Child In The School. Photo By Richard Stacks For The Baltimore Sun

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214points

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LaserBrain 3 months ago

Nice to see them all smiling together

86points

The fiery still image of the Hindenburg exploding in mid-air is another all-time classic, outside of its grim and tragic nature. It was a Nazi creation meant to use their supposed engineering skills as propaganda.

Instead, the vessel caught fire from static electricity on May 6th, 1937, resulting in the combustion. Thirty-six people lost their lives.

The photo, however, was so iconic that legendary rock band Led Zeppelin used it as the cover image of their first album.

#7

Incredible Photograph Of A German Soldier Going Against Direct Orders To Help A Young Boy Cross The Newly Formed Berlin Wall After Being Separated From His Family, 1961

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212points

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Kiyoko_tanaka 3 months ago

This shows that some people still have hearts

66points

#8

Princess Diana Shakes Hands With An Aids Patient Without Gloves, 1991

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212points

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BTDubs 3 months ago

I think people forget how emotional this would be for him. Imagine not being able to touch anyone for months or years, for absolutely no reason.

121points

#9

Meet The "Night Witches", Fearless Russian Female Pilots Who Bombed Nazis By Night, 1941

Final score:

186points

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Jesse 3 months ago

FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL IN SILENCE

51points

#10

A Native American Mother And Her Child - 1900s

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185points

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Anne Jones 3 months ago

Beautiful!

43points

#11

"Happiest Man In China", Taken In 1901 By British Anthropologists After Deciding To Document The Chinese. The Chinese Didn't Know Photos Were A "Serious Matter" And Decided To Be Goofy, Hence The Pose And Smile

"Happiest Man In China", Taken In 1901 By British Anthropologists After Deciding To Document The Chinese. The Chinese Didn't Know Photos Were A "Serious Matter" And Decided To Be Goofy, Hence The Pose And Smile

Final score:

184points

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Multa Nocte 3 months ago

Such a refreshing photo!

65points

#12

Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945

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181points

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Kiyoko_tanaka 3 months ago

The pure joy in their eyes that it's over is just so sad.

47points

Fast forward to more recent times, specifically to June 15, 1995. The “Trial of the Century” involving O.J. Simpson was front-page news. From it came the infamous photo of the disgraced NFL star trying on a pair of gloves that were evidence. It was a key moment that led to his eventual acquittal.

However, the photo of Simpson with the bloodied gloves likewise became part of history. It was also a subject of many spoofs and mockeries, which lingered until his death this past April.

#13

Mogadishu, 1993. An Italian Soldier Gives Food To A Local Orphan

Final score:

179points

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ZuriLovesYou 3 months ago

Open wide!

3points

#14

American Troops Treat A Wounded Dog On Orote Peninsula, 1944

Final score:

176points

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Honeybadger 3 months ago

Good boy

37points

#15

Atelier Photo: "A Lesbian Couple In Semi Drag Wedding Attire"; Kingdom Of Hungary - Budapest, 1920

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168points

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Kiyoko_tanaka 3 months ago

They just break all the boundaries! Such brilliant role models!

52points

#16

Margaret Hamilton And The Handwritten Navigation Software She And Her Mit Team Produced For The Apollo Project, 1969

Final score:

165points

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Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago (edited)

I've got a book which says that's a stack of print-outs from simulated moon missions run on a mainframe computer to test that the Apollo guidance computer software worked okay. But the book is wrong: that really is software, assembly language, one command per line. Also, Margaret Hamilton is the engineer who came up with the term "software".

64points

#17

A Man Rides A Bus In Durban, Meant For White Passengers Only, In Resistance To South Africa’s Apartheid Policies, 1986

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164points

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Anne Jones 3 months ago

Poor man. He looks so scared.

102points

#18

Tokyo Residents Mourning Hachiko. He Would Regularly Meet His Owner, Professor Ueno, At Shibuya Station After He Returned From Work. Sadly, Ueno Died On May 21, 1925 & Never Returned. However, Hachiko Would Return To The Station Every Day For 9 Years, Waiting For Him To Come Back, 1935

Tokyo Residents Mourning Hachiko. He Would Regularly Meet His Owner, Professor Ueno, At Shibuya Station After He Returned From Work. Sadly, Ueno Died On May 21, 1925 & Never Returned. However, Hachiko Would Return To The Station Every Day For 9 Years, Waiting For Him To Come Back, 1935

Final score:

164points

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KittyGaming 3 months ago

Is this the dog that had a statue built for him, a youtuber I watch went to this statue when her family went to Japan

54points

#19

Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer

Final score:

163points

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Anne Jones 3 months ago

Little kids face is so sweet.

55points

#20

Here Is How An Ukrainian Immigrant Celebrated Stalin's Death. 1953

Final score:

160points

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G A 3 months ago

Stalin was a worse murdering bastard than Hitler. Nice to know he lived in fear and denial because of all the people trying to kill him.

6points

#21

Arnie Supporting Disabled Athletes, 1983

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160points

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Falcon on Dizzy 3 months ago

just imagine, you're a star athlete with a disability and F*****G ARNIE SHOWS UP AND CONGRATULATES YOU

53points

#22

A Beach In Iran A Few Months Before The Islamic Revolution, 1979

Final score:

159points

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LaserBrain 3 months ago

Bikinis not burkas!! lol

54points

#23

Six-Year-Old Austrian Boy “Werfel” Receiveing A New Pair Of Shoes At The Am Himmel Orphanage, Donated By The Junior Red Cross In America (Colorized). Published In The Life Magazine In 1946

Final score:

156points

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Sailorman 3 months ago

Wonder what became of him? He would be in his 80s now if still living.

34points

#24

Ruby Bridges, The First African-American To Attend A White Elementary School In The Deep South, 1960. Colorized

Final score:

154points

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Multa Nocte 3 months ago

A little piece of me dies every time I think of what this little girl went through.

115points

#25

A Man Arrested For Cross-Dressing Emerging From A Police Van, New York, 1939

Final score:

151points

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Multa Nocte 3 months ago

And he even looks great!

91points

#26

1972: 3 Women On The Streets Of Kabul, Afghanistan

Final score:

148points

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Nea 3 months ago

My heart cries for Afghanistan. The country doesnt get a break.

90points

#27

Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member. (1960)

Final score:

147points

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Honeybadger 3 months ago

Absolutely heartbreaking

70points

#28

18-Year-Old Keshia Thomas Protects A Fallen Man, Believed To Be Associated With The Ku Klux Klan From An Angry Mob Of Anti-Clan Protestors. Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. 1996 By Mark Brunner

Final score:

144points

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Tamra 3 months ago

She's a far better person than I am.

29points

#29

An American Soldier Cradles A Wounded Japanese Boy And Shelters Him From The Rain In The Cockpit Of An Airplane During The Battle Of Saipan While Waiting To Transport The Youngster To A Field Hospital. July, 1944

An American Soldier Cradles A Wounded Japanese Boy And Shelters Him From The Rain In The Cockpit Of An Airplane During The Battle Of Saipan While Waiting To Transport The Youngster To A Field Hospital. July, 1944

Final score:

143points

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Kiyoko_tanaka 3 months ago

I'm Japanese, and this made me sob.

81points

#30

Young Queen Elizabeth As A Mechanic During Ww2 (C. 1939)

Final score:

143points

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Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago

Strictly speaking, Princess Elizabeth at the time.

59points

#31

Albert Einstein, His Secretary Helen (Left), And Daughter Margaret (Right) Becoming U.S. Citizens To Avoid Returning To Nazi Germany, 1940

Final score:

143points

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Jess Smith 3 months ago

Oh, fun/depressing story: So, he was going someplace, visiting somewhere, right after the Nazis took over. So they break into his house to find evidence he was to undermine Germany. Here is the smoking gun: Albert Einstein had a bread knife. In his kitchen. The Einsteins left shortly thereafter.

34points

#32

Nakano Takeko (Onna-Musha Of The Aizu Domain) In Imperial Japan, She And Other Women Fought In The Battle Of Aizu In October 1868 During The Boshin War, When On October 16th, She Was Killed In Battle By Rifle Shot. Shown In Full Samurai Armour, C. 1860 - 1868

Nakano Takeko (Onna-Musha Of The Aizu Domain) In Imperial Japan, She And Other Women Fought In The Battle Of Aizu In October 1868 During The Boshin War, When On October 16th, She Was Killed In Battle By Rifle Shot. Shown In Full Samurai Armour, C. 1860 - 1868

Final score:

137points

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Mimi La Souris 3 months ago

fierce look, she is stunning

48points

#33

African-American Boys On Easter Morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941 [colorized]

Final score:

137points

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Anne Jones 3 months ago

Smart lads out and about!

40points

#34

A Policeman In San Francisco Scolds A Man For Not Wearing A Mask During The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, 1918

Final score:

133points

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Honeybadger 3 months ago

I suppose it was a government hoax then, too. 🙄

111points

#35

A Man Guards His Family From The Cannibals During The Madras Famine Of 1877 At The Time Of British Raj, India

Final score:

132points

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Multa Nocte 3 months ago

Heartbreaking.

98points

#36

Russian Inmate Points An Identifying And Accusing Finger At A Nazi Guard Who Was Especially Cruel Towards The Prisoners In Buchenwald Camp. Colorized

Final score:

131points

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Honeybadger 3 months ago

Book him Danno

27points

SaneMinotaur 3 months ago

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Griffy 3 months ago

My granddad helped liberate a camp. According to my dad it affected him till his death in the 80's.

9points

Josi 3 months ago

My fiance's father did the same, and fiance found photos of the camps when he was young. His father never wanted anyone else to see them. After the father's death, they were gone. So scarred was his dad by the experience he never once spoke of it during his lifetime.

4points

Nikki Gross 3 months ago

My Grandpa served in WWII and had severe PTSD that effected him all the way up to his suicide in 1995.

1point

Marykay Klim 3 months ago

Many vets never want to talk about their war experiences, it's too horrific.

0points

G A 3 months ago

The look just says "Oh S**t".....

6points

Definitely a Human 3 months ago

I can't imagine what you'd have to do to be considered an *especially* cruel Nazi death camp guard.

5points

Seanette Blaylock 3 months ago

Or how about Amon Goeth, who was actually fired from running a concentration camp for being too cruel? "Schindler's List" reportedly toned him WAY down from real life, and people still thought the character was exaggerated.

0points

Der Kommissar 3 months ago

Many guards were immediately executed upon the arrival of Allied troops.

5points

Scott Rackley 3 months ago

I would have joined in, without a doubt

3points

ANTIVICTORIA 3 months ago

66% of concentration camp inmates were not Jewish. People forget that.

4points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 3 months ago

In Dachau upon Liberation the inmates hunted down SS guards and killed them. American soldiers stood by and guarded the scene. Fine with me. Been to Dachau twice. Once wasn't enough.

4points

Seanette Blaylock 3 months ago

Can't say I find fault with either the prisoners or the soldiers here. The guards had it coming.

1point

Falcon on Dizzy 3 months ago

the russian: hah, b!+ch, what goes around comes around, rot in hell

4points

Kay Christensen 3 months ago

Hoping Karma bit him where it hurts.

0points

Shaunn Munn 3 months ago

Busted. Guard knows the jig's up.

0points

Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago

The guy by the wall..." I TOLD your dumb a*s this wouldn't go well".

0points

Edie Hart 3 months ago

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Josi 3 months ago

It was almost assuredly during the liberation. Notice the guard's appearance.

3points

#37

British Soldiers (Interrupted During Drag Show Rehearsals By A German Raid) Manning A Bl 6-Inch Mk Vii Naval Gun At Shornemead Fort, England In 1940

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123points

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Honeybadger 3 months ago

Officer's dress

40points

#38

A U.S. Marine Rescues Two Vietnamese Children During A Gun Battle At The City Of Hue, During The Tet Offensive Of The Vietnam War - 1968

Final score:

121points

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Black Cat 3 months ago

Brave man.

32points

#39

In 1945, The Auschwitz Death Camp Was Discovered And Liberated By The Red Army

Final score:

120points

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Megan Fair 3 months ago

Their smiles make me smile

38points

#40

A German Soldier Returns Home Only To Find His Family No Longer There. Frankfurt, 1946 - By Tony Vaccaro

Final score:

115points

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Marie-Louise Palmer 3 months ago

Just another young man doing his duty. Being told to fight while the ruling classes never do. Very sad.

76points

#41

West German School Children Pause To Talk With Two East German Border Guards Beside An Opening In The Berlin Wall During The Collapse Of Communism In East Germany In November 1989 (Photo: Stephen Jaffe)

West German School Children Pause To Talk With Two East German Border Guards Beside An Opening In The Berlin Wall During The Collapse Of Communism In East Germany In November 1989 (Photo: Stephen Jaffe)

Final score:

114points

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Honeybadger 3 months ago

Notice how all the colour in the photo is on the western side

34points

#42

Annette Kellerman Promotes Women's Right To Wear A Fitted One-Piece Bathing. She Was Arrested For Indecency. (1907)

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109points

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Little Wonder 3 months ago

Well obviously, you can't just get your arms out like that, the gentlemen will swoon!

64points

#43

Woman Cutting Her Birthday Cake In Iran 1973, 5 Years Before The Islamic Revolution

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109points

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jasper 3 months ago

So pretty. Middle East is pretty much a hell hole for women now.

54points

#44

Rosa Parks's Booking Photo Following Her February 1956 Arrest

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107points

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Michael Largey 3 months ago

Pure determination in her eyes.

34points

#45

Martin Luther King Jr. Removing A Burnt Cross From His Front Yard In 1960

Final score:

102points

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KillerKiwi 3 months ago

The little boy looks so disappointed. Like oh, not this s**t again. 😂

49points

#46

David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958, Which Resulted In Officials Closing The Facility

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100points

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Sailorman 3 months ago

Segregation was shameful and simply racist behavior

73points

#47

Wwi. A Canadian Soldier Tries To Comfort A Little Belgian Baby, Who Was Hurt And Whose Mother Was Killed By An Artillery Shell. November 1918

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100points

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SaneMinotaur 3 months ago

That poor baby; this is heart breaking, like many of these images.

55points

#48

A French Boy Introduces Himself To Indian Soldiers Who Had Just Arrived In France To Fight Alongside French And British Forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914

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100points

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 3 months ago

Even today, the role, importance, and sacrifice of troops from the Empire are still largely overlooked or ignored here.

45points

#49

In 1973, Marlon Brando Rejected His Oscar For The Godfather To Allow Sacheen Littlefeather To Protest Hollywood’s Portrayal Of Native Americans

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92points

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Onan Hag All 3 months ago

Littlefeather said her father was of Apache and Yaqui ancestry and her mother was of European descent. Shortly after Littlefeather's death, Navajo writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler interviewed Littlefeather's two sisters, who said that their family is not Native American and that Littlefeather fabricated her Native American ancestry. They also said that their father, who was born in Oxnard, California, was of Spanish-Mexican descent and had no tribal ties

42points

#50

An Undercover Police Officer On Duty. New York, Brooklyn, 1 July 1969

Final score:

83points

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[>.<]/ 3 months ago

Well hello there fellow females.

48points