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Boatmen 'legging' through a canal tunnel, a common technique in longer passages with unmotorized vessels, 1961, UK
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American Soldiers preparing to land in Nazi-Collaborationist French North Africa, in America's first major involvement in the European Theatre in World War 2 (November 1942)
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Technically called the european theatre but more like the european-north african-middleeastern theater.
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I looked all over for a date and got everything from "early 1800s" to "late 1800s" but nothing exact, so I had to make an educated guess. The first cameras practical enough to take such a photo were developed around 1840 and the excavations began in 1867.
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Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921
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Middle guy has the "Oh fuck, you're taking a picture?" look. Truly timeless.
Or at least dating back to snapshot cameras.
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Legendary artist Frida Kahlo being casually dismissed in contemporary American newspaper headline, 1933
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Ukrainians holding a picture of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko during the German occupation, Kyiv, WW1, 1918
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Haifa Train Station after an attack by a Zionist terrorist org (Irgun?), British Mandate of Palestine, 1946
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Jazz legend Nat King Cole and itinerant songwriter George Alexander Aberle, USA, late 1940s
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Ahmet Ali Celikten, one of the first Black fighter pilots, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, WW1, possibly 1914 or 1915?
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