Nelson Mandela keeps his fists raised after he was sentenced to life imprisonment, June 1964
Nikola Tesla in his lab
Early publicity shot of The Rolling Stones in 1963
Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942
19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent as he crossed the finished line
A German Soldier in Despair After the Disastrous Battle of Kursk, 1943
Circus artists posing for a picture while resting outside a trailer 1930s
Georges Blind, a Member of the French Resistance, Smiling at a German Firing Squad. October 1944
Children in London celebrate Christmas in an underground bomb shelter, December 25, 1940
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing, 1945
USS Bunkerhill after being hit by two kamikaze strikes within thirty seconds (1945)
Five Samurai looking bad ass 1860-1880
The last photo ever taken of Hachikō, the dog who waited
Atlantic City, 1912
Frank Embree shortly before his lynching, Fayette, Missouri, 1899. He was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl and only confessed after being whipped over 100 times
Mona Lisa returned to the Louvre after World War II, 1945
World’s Highest Standard of Living – A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph1937
Last four couples standing in a Chicago dance marathon. ca. 1930
Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight. 1893. Princeton, NJ.
A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began
A boxing match on the USS Oregon (1897)
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