David Seymour lays in the ground between the legs of Sophia Loren at her apartment in Rome, Italy for a photo shoot 1955. Thomas Edison, left, and Henry Ford, right, photographed together in Michigan in 1927 during a road trip. These funny guys are probably German students. Tintype, Germany cigarette 1900. British Army soldiers stand in front of a burning building during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969, Londonderry. Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, center, and the destroyers Akatsuki and Wakatsuki maneuvering while under attack by United States Navy carrier aircraft 1944. Young boy visits sick friend in 1950s America. President JFK celebrates with Jacqueline at his inaugural ball after delivering the iconic torch has been passed speech. British Royal Marines during a fundraising event for the Royal Marines School of Music, Deal, Kent, United Kingdom, 1988.

Boxer Fred Bretnell in 1920 at the age of 15 and in 1928 at the age of 23. Alligator slide, California Alligator Farm, 1900. An imaginative butcher and a perplexed customer, Paris, Cevo 1955. A car drives through a deep pond at the Ford proving grounds, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 1948. American Red Cross women at the French Riviera, 1945. Yawning bridesmaid, 1967. Last minute rescue from a ship torpedoed by a German submarine, 1917. A group photo of Japanese officers taken in 1865. Lori Williams, and Tura Satana in a publicity photo for Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965. Russian girl in national costume, 19th century, Nizhny Novgorod province. Delivering the news of the Titanic, 1912. The crew of an American AC-47 aircraft fires a machine gun during a night mission in Vietnam, 1966. Meeting on the Elbe, American and Soviet soldiers dancing, April 25th, 1945.

The first version of a mobile phone in 1924. First May 1933, Labor Day in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Young Leonardo DiCaprio. Dolph Lundgren exercising on the beach, 1990. A group of women at the University of Wisconsin serenade cows as part of an experiment studying the effects of music on cows, 1930. The record-breaking Irving Napier Golden Arrow was carefully packed for its journey across the Atlantic. Annie Oakley teaching women how to shoot a rifle, 1918. Oddly specific allegorical tableau in support of the Spanish-American War, 1898. Grizzled Confederate and Union veterans reconciled to liberate Cuba, represented as a blonde girl. Snake charmer, 19th century. Coney Island, the Holdren family, C. 1910. A member of the Deutsche Bundespost posing with the iconic ice bear circa 1950s.

The final Shah of Iran with tears in his eyes spends his final moments in the country before going into exile being begged by loyalist supporters not to leave 1979. Models on the beach in straw hats, Florida, United States 1950 photographed by Nina Leen. One of France’s first gay nightclubs in 1932. A young Mohammed Atta in the desert. Atta would go on to crash American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 2001. Photo was taken mid-1970s likely in Egypt. Nupiak Eskimo family portrait of Noatak, Alaska circa mid-1929. Jane Birkin at her home in 1971. The Cultural Revolution in China, the burning of books considered symbols of the old culture. An aerial view of destruction of logging operation after floods following Mount St. Helens eruption shown on May 20th, 1980.

Behind the scenes photo from the making of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986. Students hurl strikers barricade aside to clear entrance to campus. Members of faculty joined in removing obstacles to upset efforts by dissidents to school the school. Scene from the 1969 student riot at Los Angeles City College. Royal Ulster Constabulary and Catholics in Derry, Northern Ireland, 1969. John F. Kennedy with Jacqueline and baby Caroline, 1958. A statue of Lenin vandalized by German soldiers in Russia during World War II. Basketball team with Mick Jagger. Evacuees board a boat on the Saigon waterfront in Saigon as PRG troops closing in on April 30th, 1975. Mexican Revolution, Juarez fortification of Adobe’s during battle. New York street style in the 1980s, photography by Jamel Shabazz. British soldier and kitty, France World War 1. A rioter in the Bogside area of Derry. 13th August 1969.

An American soldier treats Red Army soldiers to field rations during a meeting in Torgau, 1945. A young girl embraces a piglet on a farm in Germany, circa 1950s. 1914, a suffragette is arrested by police officers in the United Kingdom. One of the seven children of a farmer sitting on a bed beneath hanging clothes inside their home in Iron County, Michigan, 1937. Woman hug palm tree on vacation, 1950s. And finally, Douglas Fairbanks presenting Janet Gaynor with the very first best actress Academy Award in 1929. Children watch as Ringling Circus Clown Lou Jacobs applies his makeup in Tallahassee, Florida, 1941. 1923, liquor and beers were examined by J. W. Quillen, the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s chief chemist, who determined that only two of the thousands of bottles in this warehouse weren’t terrible moonshine counterfeits. Pfc. Fred Linden, 165th Signal Photographic Company with liberated child, France, June 1944.

Clark Gable petting a horse at his ranch, California, United States, 1946. The Chevrolet showroom in the ’30s. On March 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King displays a poster to be used for an upcoming Poor People’s Campaign. The campaign was set to begin on April 22nd, 1968. George Lucas playing Star Wars game, 1983. Biplane Opel Blitz, Aerostraßenbahn, In 1980, Paul McCartney was arrested in Japan for possession of marijuana. 6th June, 1942. Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma burning and listing after being hit by six bombs and having her torpedoes explode. She was the first Japanese cruiser sunk in World War II. A Palestinian girl wearing traditional attire of the town of Ramallah, 1932. A jitterbug competition, December 16th, 1939. Girls with their dolls at the first annual doll day at Central Junior High School, located near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Temple Street in Los Angeles, 1930.

Stretching at the Lido, Paris, C. 1950. Danny Trejo during his boxing days, taken sometime around 1970 to 1973. Symbolic of the defense of Sevastopol, Crimea, is this Russian girl sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who by the end of the war had killed a confirmed 309 Germans, the most successful female sniper in history. Bathing Suit Patrol, C. 1930. West Berliners waving to relatives over the Berlin Wall, Christmas Day 1961. Jack Earl. Young Scarlett Johansson. 1910’s car polo. Tim Roth and Michael Madsen on the set of Reservoir Dogs. Christopher Walken, May 1977. Space Ranger. A child played with a coin-operated spaceship at the American Toy Fair in 1953. Missionary giving hookworm lecture to Vella Lavella Islanders between 1919 and 1939. Half a million mice were caught over four nights during a mouse plague in Lasalle, Australia in 1917.

Robin Williams as part of the Denver Broncos Pony Express cheerleaders squad, November 11th, 1979. Kelly Devall with her mother Bobby in 1972 and a bunny. A woman crossing a stile after the flooding in the Thames Valley, December 1915. Scraped ice seller on hot day, 1910. Debbie Reynolds, 8-year-old in 1940. Andy Kerr, Jr. on the left and Ernie Cant of the LA Scots work up paint expressions as they drill for their United States Open Cup soccer game against St. Louis Kootenays at Rancho Cienega Stadium, March 24th, 1954. Atlanta teenagers, 1947. Model Anna Nicole Smith, date unknown. J. Orberg’s double-wide limousine. Japanese Canadian gets noticed to be sent to an internment camp, 1942. Geraldine Chaplin, Lauren Hutton, and Shelley Duvall as they clown about at Elaine’s restaurant, New York, New York, November 1977. Load of Christmas trees, New York, teen teen Tina.

Circa 1920s NSDAP election propaganda poster somewhere in Germany. Bank employees using Burroughs machines, 1960. Takulukka, a 17-year-old Netsilik Inuit woman photographed during Roald Amundsen’s famous Gjøa expedition through the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906. Salvador Dalí La Santa, 1961. David Bowie visits the USSR, 1973. Gorilla woman, Vietnam War, Vietnam, 1961. Queen Elizabeth coronation, Prince Philip kneels before his wife at coronation, 1953. Apollo 11 mission officials relax in the launch control center following the successful lift-off of Apollo 11, 1969. The American aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay burns after being attacked by a Japanese Kamikaze aircraft, 1944. A circus dwarf boxing with a kangaroo, Kingston on Thames, England, 1932. A Ponca couple posing together for their wedding photo, c. 1900. US Army aerial bombing practice, 1921. Chorus girl raising money at baseball game to raise money for survivors of the RMS Titanic disaster, Polo Grounds, New York City.

1912 The Critic, July 27th, 1945 Actor Marie Wilson, wearing evening clothes and a party hat, and surrounded by streamers and balloons, celebrates New Year’s Eve, 1948. Segregated seating at the Orange Bowl, 1956 Steve Buscemi during his days as a New York City firefighter from 1980 to 1984. Royal Palace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Indochina Four dancers of the Royal Ballet, dressed as princesses, 1921 Sharon Adams 10, played in a snowdrift as her cat maintained its comfortable perch atop her head, 1952. Cricketer and future actor Russell Crowe at age 10 in 1974 Crow Medicine Crow, 1880. This union is considered one of the first official records of Japanese Afro marriage in the state of Parana, Brazil in 1930. Whitney Houston’s first photo shoot, 1982. On a ledge about a city, Houdini holds on with his chin in a scene from the film The Grim Game, 1919.

United States President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Marines bound for Vietnam, 1968. Rest of looters in a store, Watts riots, a suburb of Los Angeles, August 1965. Two women having fun outdoors.

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