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Kids in an mini-monorail inside a department store, Philadelphia, USA, 1950s (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink
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This photograph is in Iran in the 1970s, she couldn’t be wearing this outfit today, and she would need a Hijab. (lemmy.world)
submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
48 comments fedilink

Google 1970s Iran vs now. It’s an interesting contrast of how quickly societies can change; and some would argue, not towards the future but backwards.

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USS Iowa in a floating dry-dock, Pacific Ocean, WW2, 1944 (lemmy.world)
submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink
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US soldiers demonstrating captured German body armor, WW1, 1918 (lemmy.world)
submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink
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French soldiers with a Chauchat Light Machine Gun, Western Front, WW1, 1918 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
9 comments fedilink
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Navajo woman on horseback, New Mexico, ~1935 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
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Wisdom of the ancients, Life Magazine, 1951 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink
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French girl with her cat, 1958 or 1959 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
31 comments fedilink
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Soldiers of Qing China, ~1900 (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
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Soldiers in Qing China demonstrating their weapons and shields, late 19th century (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
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Soviet soldier with a makeshift Anti-Aircraft setup using captured Nazi machineguns, WW2, during or after 1941 (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
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Malcolm X w/ M1 Carbine [1964] (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
15 comments fedilink
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Hiram Maxim with his invention, the Maxim gun, an early and influential machine gun, 1884 (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
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US Marine with a kitten under a destroyed Japanese tank, Tarawa Atoll, 1943 (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
9 comments fedilink
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Brothers Henry Old Coyote and Barney Old Coyote Jr posing for a photo, Absaroka ('Crow') Native American airmen of the US Army Air Corps, later also activists for indigenous rights, WW2, ~1942 (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink

Barney Old Coyote Jr. was highly decorated during the war, in addition to his activism later in life

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Woman and child, British Mandate of Palestine, 1920s or 1930s (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
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Street in Oulu, Finland (then part of the Russian Empire), 1870s (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
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Frame of troops in the First Balkan War, 1912 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
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Makeshift armored car, Ukrainian War of Independence, ~1918 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
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Rare cop W, New York City, USA, 1925 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
7 comments fedilink
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Japanese officers and French military advisers, Boshin War, Japan, 1868-1869 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
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Burner Anna Bland, working on the SS George Washington Carver, USA, WW2, 1943 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
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Japanese actress and male impersonator Kawaji Ryuko, 1940s or 1950s (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
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Soviet parachute troops jump off of a TB-3 bomber (yes, OFF of, not out of), 1937 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
16 comments fedilink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzMb_ue4aG4

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Archivist with giant books at the Clementium, Czechia (then Czechoslovakia), Prague, 1958 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
21 comments fedilink

https://readerupdated.com/2022/12/28/woman-with-giant-book-photo-full-credits/comment-page-1/

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