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Queen Isabel II, veiled, 1855 C by Camillo Torreggiani. Masterful use of light and shadows to make it look like real lace.
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Stoney First Nation member, guide Samson Beaver with his wife Leah and daughter Frances Louise, 1907.
Photo by Mary Schäffer.
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In 1913, 10-year-old Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma. The best farming land was reserved for whites, so she was given a barren plot. Oil was discovered there and she became the country's first black millionaire.
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Horse Handle Lapis Lazuli Dagger, Persia, 19th Century CE, The Al Sabah Collection, Kuwait
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A coal miner waiting to get into the communal shower at the end of his shift, taken in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1958. Photo by Max Scheler.
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Italian partisan, Prosperina Vallet, photographed in the mountains of Valle d’Aosta, 1944. Color by Julius Colorization. See more photos of WW2 in color: bit.ly/3Mzu56v
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The entrance of the Temple of Edfu in Egypt. Built between 237 and 57 BCE and dedicated to the god Horus.
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Photographers in front of the Hermès Store in Monaco during the Grand Prix, 1968
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Beautifully decorated back of a French ceremonial armor, circa 1575–80.
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British Soldiers (interrupted during drag show rehearsals by a German raid) manning a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun at Shornemead Fort, England in 1940
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Bruce Lee’s interview on the Pierre Berton Show, 1971.
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A Roman helmet found in the Rhine River. Inscribed inside is the name of the soldier who wore it, L. Lucretius Celeris.
Photo by Wolfgang Sauber
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The aftermath of the Vietnam War. Mangrove forest destroyed by Agent Orange, 1976
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Congolese 'Sword' of the Ngala people from the late 1800s, Africa.
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Hot air balloon in Paris, at the Olympic Games tournament, 1900.
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Community grocery store owner, Harlem, New York, 1940.
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Right Gauntlet for King Philip of Spain (1527-1598), Worcester Art Museum.
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Victorian Prosthetic Arm, Europe, 1850-1910.
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Aerial view of the Temple of Ramses lll at Medinet Habu, Luxor, Egypt.
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Howard Carter opening the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun (14th c. BC) in 1924.
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The iconic San Francisco Cliff House before it was destroyed in a 1907 fire. Somehow it had survived the 1906 earthquake a year before.
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