21 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

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Sit-in demonstration at a Woolworth’s whites-only lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi, turned violent when a mob poured sugar, ketchup and mustard over the heads of demonstrators, from left, John Salter, Joan Trumpauer and Anne Moody. May 28, 1963

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Black citizens fill out voter registration forms at the Courthouse under a sign warning them the applicants’ names and addresses will be published in the newspapers. Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. 1964

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Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932

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Boy standing in front of fallen statue of Lenin, Ethiopia, 1991

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JFK’s funeral at the capital. November 1963

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Japanese Leaflet dropped on Americans during WWII

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Hiroshima before and after the atomic bombing on August 6th, 1945

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East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989

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Men celebrating the end of prohibition, December 5, 1933

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Leningrad Gas mask drill, 1939

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Bonnie and Clyde in Joplin Missouri shortly before they were shot dead. 1934

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WW1 German demonstration method of bombing from a plane 1916

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Preparing models and set to film the first ‘Godzilla’ movie, 1954

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Jack Johnson vs. James Jeffries July 4, 1910

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Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson & wife, 1910s

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Pretty Victorian era woman getting photographed for the first time 1890’s

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Russian firefighters – Moscow, 1903

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Aerial Photographs of Auschwitz taken by an British Reconnaissance plane. The main crematorium can be seen on the lower right. Poland , 1944

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Harriet Tubman with rescued slaves – Auburn, NY, circa 1887

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Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis, The last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and North America, Early 1920’s

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The effects of Agent Orange, Hanoi, Vietnam. March 28, 2006