Little Pictures Big History

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The Lion Tamer of the Russian circus, Captain Jack Bonavita, poses with some of his lions. 1905

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British sailor removing the leg irons off a slave late 1800s

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Lt. Oscar Bayer of the LAPD Detective Bureau aims a Thompson with a removed stock and no magazine for demonstration purposes. Pre-dating the Dillinger gang by six years this photo conveys the means by which bank robbers modified the Thompson to aid mobility and concealment 1927

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Mum's army- A sergeant drilling civilian members of the Women's Home Defence Corps, in the use of rifles during the Battle of Britain in 1940

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Vladimir Lenin and other Soviet leaders celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution in Red Square, Moscow, 1919

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101st Airborne paratroopers signaling a helicopter to evacuate their wounded, 1968

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Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961

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Iranian woman before the Islamic Revolution, 1960

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"Toffs and Toughs" The famous photo by Jimmy Sime that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937

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NASA scientists with their board of calculations. 1960's

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RMS Titanic from the starboard side, April 1912

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Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1940

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View from an American A-20 Havoc aircraft during a bomber run against a Japanese airfield, 1943-1945

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Berlin in 1945

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Five Australian former POWs catch up on news about the atomic bombings, after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, Sep 1945

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Drive-in theater, South Bend Indiana, 1950s

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Tattooing a butterfly garter belt, 1930s

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Abraham Lincoln gazes down on demonstrators, during the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

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People pose in windows and in front of shops on a street in New York City, c. 1865

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Mogadishu, Somalia Pre Civil War 1960s

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Men at work on the Central Line of the London Underground, 1898

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Che Guevara disguised as Ramon Benitez Hernandez, a middle aged Uruguayan business man, in a forged passport used to sneak into Bolivia in 1966

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Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919

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Gadget, the first atomic bomb

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Sumo Wrestling, Japan, ca. 1898

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Japanese prisoners of war at a POW camp with bowed heads as they heard Emperor Hirohito broadcast the unconditional surrender of Japan.

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A Hutu man at a Red Cross hospital, his face mutilated by the Hutu 'Interahamwe' militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. 1994

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The end of WW2 is celebrated in Moscow's Red Square, May 9, 1945