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Portrait of a Maori man, New Zealand, ~1885

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Canoe sidecar, the UK, ~1925

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Tea merchants, Qing China, ~1898

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Photochrom of people making bread, Syria, ~1900

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Cats eyeing a little girl with a fish, Australia, 1936

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Dancers in traditional masks, Indonesia, ~1900

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RAF Folland Gnat T.1s flying in formation, UK, 1966

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Dog plow in Belgium, WW1, 1916

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Bus in Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1929

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Factory workers in Whitby, the UK, ~1920

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Rider in Cameroon, ~1920

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Bulgarian politicians, including Prime Minister Nikola Mushanov, and pigeons; Venice, Italy, 1932

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Ship's Dog "Venus" of the Royal Navy, UK, WW2, 1941

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Portuguese troops at a medical station, France, WW1, between 1914-1918

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Date merchants, Egypt, some time before 1923

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Romanian troops in a trench, WW1, 1917

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Shoe market in Seoul, Korea, ~1900

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Field irrigation, South Korea, ~1950

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Copper working in Baghdad, Iraq, 1932

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Copper bazaar in Baghdad, Iraq, 1932

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Firetruck being observed by a crowd, Yokohama, Japan, 1907

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Procession through a street in Algeria, ~1900

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New Year's Eve at Sammy’s Bowery Follies, a dive bar in Manhattan, New York City, USA, ~1945

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Man being carried in a sedan chair, Qing China, 1874?

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Manchu archer, Qing China, 1874

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Shepherds with their flock, Normandy, France, ~1920

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Salt miners at work, Poland, 1922

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Miners washing gold-bearing sand, Russian Empire, ~1910

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Turkish president Cevdet Sunay and King Idris of Libya are greeted by Libyan children, 1968

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Passing traffic in Lebanon, ~1939

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Painted photo of Bedouin mothers carrying children on their shoulders, Syria, late 19th century

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The Harlem Globetrotters visiting California, USA, 1978

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Latvian riflemen, WW1, 1916

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Woman with two pack animals, Afghanistan, ~1940

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Construction workers near Stockholm, Sweden, 1937

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Machinegun team of the Polish Voluntary Legion of Women, Polish-Soviet War, 1920

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Doing laundry in São Tomé and Príncipe, ~1941

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Police in Najaf, Iraq, ~1933

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The Nahr al-Kalb (Dog River) in Lebanon, 1880

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Crossing a river by automobile, Mosul, Iraq, 1935

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Polish farmer in traditional clothing of the Carpathian Mountains, Poland, 1934

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Argentinian Air Force wreckage after a nighttime raid by the British RAF, Falklands War, 1982

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Ornate royal barge in Thailand, 1865

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Early color photo of a woman in Ukraine, ~1904

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Legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo decorating the plaster corset she had to wear for ongoing treatment of spinal issues, 1944

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Kalmyk soldier of Tsarist Russia riding a Bactrian Camel, Ukraine, WW1, 1915

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Horse cart in a snowstorm, Estonia, 1925

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German police cadets at the Sondershausen Police Academy, Thuringia, 1928

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Exhausted camel, Afghanistan, ~1940

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Woman washing clothing in the Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq, ~1934

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Boatmen on the Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq, ~1934

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Christian Nuns in Tblisi, Georgia, 1933-1934

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Man with a tray full of flatbreads, Afghanistan, 1939-1940

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Riders in Afghanistan, 1939-1940

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Spectators at a surfing contest, Huntingdon Beach, California, USA, 1962

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British soldier demonstrating the use of a German armored mask, WW1, ~1916?

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Waterside village in Thailand, ~1885

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Overview of Kermanshah, Iran, ~1890

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Anti-bra protest, San Francisco, USA, 1969

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US Army nurses liberated from a Japanese PoW camp, the Philippines, WW2, 1945

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Feeding a deer, Munich, Germany, 1913

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Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later known as Pope Francis) riding the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008

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Rickshaw in operation, Harbin, China, 1945

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Women in Kashmir, India or Pakistan, 1864

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Revolutionary militiamen posing for a photo, Hungarian Revolution, 1956

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Type 91 experimental tank going over an obstacle, Japanese Empire, 1930s

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People and dogs in Hämeenlinna, Finland, 1937

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Game planning for Southampton Football Club, England, UK, 1949

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Sami reindeer herder and self-taught artist Nils Nilsson Skum, Sweden, 1937

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Portrait of some men in Nuku Hiva, Polynesia, 1884

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Christine Jorgensen, actress, singer, and trans activist, USA, 1963

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Two women carrying a wooden beam during construction of a chalet, Switzerland, 1936

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Lithuanian troops (and dog) with an armored car, Lithuania, ~1920

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Nannies watching over small children in Berlin, Germany, 1913

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Veiled women boarding a train in Tehran, Iran, ~1890

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Sorority Sisters at the University of Texas, USA, 1944

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Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (famous for his assassination kicking off WW1) posing as a mummy, Cairo, Egypt, 1896

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Procession at the royal palace for New Year celebrations, Tehran, Iran, ~1885 AD

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Pizzeria in Naples, Italy, ~1979

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Mississippi's first legally married interracial couple, Berta and Roger Mills, enjoying their wedding cake. USA, 1970.

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Rowboat filled with baskets, Tangier, Morocco, 1935

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Stevie Wonder visiting a children's school for the blind, London, UK, 1970

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Boats on the Nile, Egypt, early 20th century

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Alleyway market stall in Algiers, Algeria, 1913

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Belgian race car driver Camille Jenatzy with his record-breaking electric car, La Jamais Contente, which exceeded 100 kph, 1899

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Jamaican men next to racist graffiti (KBW - "Keep Britain White") in London, the UK, 1952

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Hand-tinted photo of female musicians in Japan, ~1900?

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Ferrying cars across a river, Indonesia, ~1930

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Refugees returning in Austria after liberation from Nazi forces, WW2, 1945

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Two Soviet soldiers help a wounded comrade during urban combat in Vienna, Austria, WW2, 1945

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Stereoscopic photo of three children, British Mandate of Palestine, 1935

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Finnish personnel in a rowboat disarming a sea mine, WW2, 1944

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Child with polio learning how to walk in physical therapy, Canada, 1953

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A Soviet soldier stands on top of the parliament building in Vienna, Austria, WW2, 1945

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Frank Sinatra playing with his dog, Ringo. California, USA, 1965

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German amateur pilot Mathias Rust after flying over air defenses and landing in Red Square, Moscow, the Soviet Union, 1987

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Beachside restaurant, Greece, 1937

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Armed anti-Soviet revolutionaries, Budapest, Hungary, 1956

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Stone bridge in Qom Province, Iran, ~1900

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Jewish wife of a Kurdish chieftain, Iran, 1890

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