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Gold miners in Canada, 1853

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Unloading boats in Helsinki, Finland (then-part-of the Russian Empire), 1898

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Imperial German biplane with armor plating, WW1, 1918

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Four British soldiers with three captured German Goliath tracked mines shortly after D-Day.

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Black cat "Teufelsbraten" ("Devil's Roast") ignoring tasty living mouse morsels as he walks down a ladder. Germany, 1989

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F-117A after a mishap as the aircraft landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. 1997.

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Testing US military Z-Binoculars, early infrared systems. Approximately 1944-1945.

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US soldier in Vietnam using PRR-9/PRT-4 radio, carrying an XM16E1 with undermounted XM-148 grenade launcher.

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Swiss troops manning an observation post in the Alps, sometime between 1914-1918

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Pilots of the No. 224 Group RAF in north-eastern India around a Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC (variant using four 20mm cannons instead of 6 .303 Brownings). North-eastern India,1943.

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Boy with bicycle (and dog), Ontario, Canada, ~1900

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Rural women in Romania, 1922

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US troops with a French 37mm gun, France, WW1, 1918

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Jamen Butler (left) and Tom Malim, a gay couple, USA, 1971

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Rock legend Freddie Mercury and his partner, Jim Hutton, UK, 1980s

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A woman in typical menswear of the time, British Mandate of Palestine, 1930s

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Early photography sequence of horse and rider jumping over a barrier, USA, ~1887

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Training military dogs, Japanese Empire, WW2, some time between 1940-1945

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Three horse sleigh, Russian Empire, ~1900

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Boulevard of Passeig de Colom, Barcelona, Spain, ~1900

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Freight hauling along the Yukon River, Canada, ~1899

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Village in Taiwan, ~1898

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U.S. Marines watch F4U Corsairs drop napalm on Chinese positions during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. 1950.

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Bedouin man in As-Salt, Jordan, ~1910

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Destroyed bridge in Portugal, 1909

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Ostrich reading a newspaper with the zookeeper, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1951

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Aerial view of the Qata'a Bridge over the Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq, 1932

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Mercenary artillerymen with British guns, Qing-dynasty China, ~1880

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Street in Nanjing, China, 1932

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Jerome, Samuel and Moses Horwitz (1935, "Hoi Polloi" movie set) [notes in post]

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They were better known as “The Three Stooges,” although only Jerome ("Curly") and Moses ("Moe") were part of the act at this time. Samuel ("Shemp") had left 3yrs earlier to work on his own career. For Hollywood, they also used the stage name “Howard” in place of “Horwitz.”

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First automated aerial photography

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That does it, get the constable!

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Mourner in traditional dress, Korea, 1911

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People along the Nile River, Egypt, ~1900?

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Kids in a street of Munich, Germany, 19th century

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Audience during a Gay Pride Parade, New York City, 1986

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Cat with a drinking problem, UK?, 1860s?

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Ship sailing in the Bay of Angra, the Azores Islands, Portugal, ~1905

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British soldier eating his midday meal in a snowy trench, the Netherlands, WW2, 1945

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First LGBT Pride march in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1990

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Pakistani troops manning a 106mm recoilless rifle during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965

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Civilian Conservation Corps preparing beavers for transplant to a new area to stabilize the local ecosystem, USA, ~1938

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Milking an animal in Mongolia, 1920s

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Author Mark Twain with his cat, Dublin. USA, 1906

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Female soldiers in service to the anti-fascist Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, 1936

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Paul Downing, a Black Cherokee trans man arrested in the UK, ~1905

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"Les garconnes", lesbians in Paris, France, 1928

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Sapphic women at a Pride demonstration in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, 1989

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Women in a library in Beirut, Lebanon, 1946

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2nd Australian Conference on Bisexuality, Sydney, Australia, 1997

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Iraq Levies in training, British-occupied Iraq, between 1939-1945

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Desert well in Ethiopia or Somalia, ~1900

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Street in Karlovy Vary, Czechia, ~1900

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Boat and water-gate in China, early 20th century AD

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A group of Aboriginal men with traditional clothing and tools, Australia, 1858

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Woman in a vintage car with a poodle and child as passengers, New York City?, USA, ~1906

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US Marine at Khe Sahn, Vietnam, Vietnam War, 1968

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A Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bomber flying over Hamburg, Germany, during the intense Allied bombing raids of Operation Gomorrah in 1943.

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Slightly off-topic - a new AskHistorians comm has opened, for those interested!

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Steam automobile in France, 1897

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Socialists, gay rights activists, and life partners George Merrill (left) and Edward Carpenter (right), UK, ~1900?

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"Lesbian Welders, San Francisco", USA, 20th century

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Louise Brooks in-costume for the film "Beggars of Life", USA, 1928

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Steamboat on the Ludwig Canal, Germany, 1910

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Some photos of one of the first and most successful female directors in Hollywood, Dorothy Arzner, a gay woman; USA, 1930s?

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Three 1940s women posing for a dirty joke

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East German Policeman armed with Mkb.42(H) assault rifle. 1950s.

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Radar control at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, 1981.

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Swedish film legend and bisexual icon Greta Garbo, USA, 1946

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Boys playing on a doorway in New York City, USA, ~1940

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Hollyweed, USA, 1983

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Jack’s Saloon in Hot Springs. Arkansas, USA, 1935

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Nuclear consent switch on an F-16 Fighting Falcon

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Giugno 1953

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Giugno 1953

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US Army Rangers awaiting the invasion signal in a landing craft in an English port. June 1944.

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A helicopter lowers an M101 105mm howitzer into position during the construction of a mountaintop fire support base. Vietnam. 1968.

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Security force at los alamos national laboratory. 1980s.

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A highway in Japan after the M7.3 Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. January 17, 1995.

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Silent film actress Helen Bray dressed as a man in a still for "The Danger Girl", USA, ~1916

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Lesbian writer Radclyffe Hall and her dog, Tulip, UK?, ~1930

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Polish soldier posing with a German Panzerschreck by his damaged Sherman tank at Piedimonte San Germano, 25 May 1944.

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"Gay-in" at Central Park, New York City, USA, 1971

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Kjell Rindar, LGBT rights activist, at the first Pride demonstration in Stockholm, Sweden, 1977

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A soldier returned from Dunkirk, enjoys a sandwich and cup of tea on a train at Paddock Wood station, Kent, 1 June 1940.

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Camels carrying grain, Morocco, 1917

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3rd Infantry Division (Bradley IFVs, M113, and M88 series recovery vehicle), during the Battle of Baghdad in April 2003.

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HMS Hood, HMS Iron Duke, HMS Resolution, HMS Revenge and HMS Ramillies preparing for the Royal Jubilee Naval Review. 1935

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Man playing a hurdy-gurdy (musical instrument), Russian Empire, ~1880

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Yeoman of the Guard carrying 'Maundy Money', UK, 1898

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Indigenous Wishram man fishing, West Coast USA, ~1910

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Beach market in Bahia, Brazil, 1937?

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Repairing the Hull of the Graf Zeppelin during the flight over the Atlantic (photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt.) 1934

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U.S. Airman during 1984 training exercise. Equipped with an M16A1 and MILES simulation gear.

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Camp Joseph T. Robinson. Wearing components of the multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES), Sergeant (SGT) Mark Peterson, from the 314th Security Police Squadron participates in Exercise SAFE DEFENDER ONE as a member of the aggressor force. He is armed with an M16A1 rifle equipped with MILES. 29/06/1984.

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The W48, a 155mm nuclear projectile that could be fired from standard U.S. howitzers

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A tactical nuclear weapon, it was manufactured starting in 1963, and all units were retired in 1992.

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Scene just prior to a beheading, Qing-dynasty China, 1867

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Los Angeles police investigate a dead body. 1955.

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Elephant and rider in Kathmandu, Nepal

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SVR Officers in the Russian White House during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis

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Old CDV portraits from Dresden and Chemnitz

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Opium den in New York City, USA, 1925

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Fashionable woman in Vietnam, 1935

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