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Upon seeing this Iowa farmer during his visit, Khrushchev patted his belly, exclaiming, “Now there’s a real American!” 1959.

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An Egyptian woman from Cairo, c. 1870.

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The patent for toilet paper, showing the intended orientation had the paper drape over the front of the roll, not behind it. 1891.

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Blanche Monnier was a French woman noted for her beauty. She wished to marry an old lawyer that her mother disapproved of, so her mother locked her daughter in a small dark room in an attic for 25 years. She was rescued in 1901 at aged 52.

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Queen Fawzia Fuad of Iran and Princess of Egypt, c. 1939.

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Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Smith, at their wedding in 1946.

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@historyinmemes A little girl Having fun pretending to talk on The telephone , Japan , 1958.

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The Virgin Mary punching the Devil in the face, painting from c. 1240.

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Princess Ileana of Romania, 1920s

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Men of the 72nd highlanders who served in the Crimean war, c. 1854

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A Woman with all her belongings, sitting alone in war-ruined Cologne. 1945.

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Eisenhower walking through a cemetery in Normandy, France, the final resting place of many from D-Day, 1964

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Robert Cornelius, who took the first self-portrait photograph, October or November 1839, an approximately quarter plate size daguerreotype. On the back is written, "The first light picture ever taken".

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Interior of a passenger airplane in the 1930s.

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Two children dressed up for Halloween 1918, USA

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Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after the Casablanca Conference. Marrakesh, Morocco, 1943.

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The only known photograph of an African American Union soldier with his family. c1863-65

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@xDaily Adding an additional step in an operation seems like a bad user interface

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Adolf Hitler receiving salutes from the German Reichstag upon declaring war on the United States, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany, 1941

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FBI informant Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee. 1947

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Jimmy Carter with Rosalynn Smith and his mother at his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on June 5, 1946

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@elonmusk Want a break from Twitter mayhem? Here’s a photo taken in Cleveland, OH, circa early 1900s, of a child with their pet dog and cat sitting in a stroller! Now have a good day, everyone! 🐱🐶

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@molfully No wonder why cholera was so damn common there lol

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“Into the jaws of death”- With the first wave headed ashore at Normandy, June 6, 1944

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Lost men being buried at sea aboard the USS Intrepid, 1944.

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Young German Soldier Crying After Being Captured by U.S. Forces in 1945

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A kangaroo punching a woman trying to take a photo, c. 1960

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@historyinmemes Ah yes, definitely “history”

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A policeman stopping traffic in New York City to allow for a cat and her kitten to cross the street, 1925.

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Lincoln at Antietam, September 1862

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Devil’s Tower, photographed in 1900

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Geronimo and his warriors. One of the only known photos of Indian combatants still in the field who had not yet surrendered to the United States. C. S. Fly, 1886

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The first image of Abu Simbel Temple taken in 1852

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Earliest known photo of Jerusalem, taken by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey in 1844.

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Johnny Clem, “The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.” He was the youngest soldier in the Union Army, shot a Confederate colonel, and retired with the rank of General in 1915.

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A young Barack Obama with his mother on Halloween, c. 1966

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@MKBHD Finally! Hated having to manually resize Mac windows

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American Civil War soldier clowning around for the camera, ca. 1863

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Giant turkey float during the 31st annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade moves down Broadway near 37th Street in New York, Nov. 28, 1957

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Jimmy Carter with Rosalynn Smith and his mother at his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on June 5, 1946

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Union veterans telling stories to a group of Boy Scouts at the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1938.

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German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

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Louis-Victor Baillot, who fought in Napoleon’s army. Before his death at the age of 105, he was last living veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, 1897

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Women making a snow woman, 1891.

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American Civil War veterans, filmed in 1929, describe the battles of Cole Camp & Wilson Creek, 1861.

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Woman on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France 1947.

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Eyes of Hate, a candid photograph of Goebbels after he finds out his photographer was Jewish, 1933

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The oldest generation of people ever photographed. With the advent of early photography in the 1840s, the oldest people photographed at the time were born during the American Revolution.

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A United States soldier holds up a jungle centipede during the Vietnam war, 1967

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July 17, 1902 -- Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.

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Four Generations, c. 1905

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Every Christmas I like to share this grave I found while visiting North River, NY some years ago, of Ace Gardner, a man who was born on Christmas and died Christmas Eve just shy of his 78th birthday. Though I don’t know anything of his life, I wanted to keep his memory alive.

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A soldier returning from the war to see his eight month old, 1945.

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Dorothy Counts, the First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States, Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957

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Out of over 750,000 soldiers that fought for South,these were last 3 surviving Confederate Civil War veterans, 1951.

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@molfully Can’t believe they had to force out the local:

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Civil War veterans playing cards together, 1930.

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Anne Frank, with her sister Margot at Zandvoort Beach, 1940. Two years later they would go into hiding.

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John F. Kennedy Jr. waiting for his Dad, President John F. Kennedy to land at Camp David, Maryland in October 1963. JFK was assassinated the very next month.

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A worker in a Van Nuys factory, who later called herself Marilyn Monroe, 1944.

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An opium party in Paris, 1918.

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Painters Atop The Woolworth Building In New York City, 1926

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Woman on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France 1947.

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The first known photo of an actual live medical operation, 1847.

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Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin (1835?-1932) was the last Cherokee survivor of the Trail of Tears, having been forcibly moved from her home in 1839.

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"The Old Defenders Of Baltimore", veterans of The War Of 1812 who had fought in the Battle of Baltimore, 1814. Photo taken 1880.

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Elvis and Priscilla Presley with newborn Lisa Marie, 1968

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245 years ago yesterday (April 19) the Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred, marking the start of the American Revolution. The next day, the Siege of Boston began. The ten month operation would end in an American victory. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

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A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine at the time of British Raj, India, 1877

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Pope Leo XIII was the earliest-born person recorded on film. Born in 1810, the pope was eighty-six when these clips were captured in 1896. For reference, the Pope was born the year after Lincoln and Darwin

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Union veterans telling stories to a group of Boy Scouts at the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1938.

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John L. Burns, a veteran of the War of 1812, The Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War. Photo taken in 1863.

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Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft copy of the Declaration of Independence

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Today is the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party

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@historyinmemes Roman mosaics preserved under a vineyard in Italy. Despite being nearly two millennia in age, the Roman art remained in good condition.

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Two homeless men squat in the shadow of the recently completed World Trade Center. The city was on the verge of bankruptcy and the World Trade Center was largely vacant, 1975.

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The Empire State Building ablaze after a B-25 bomber crashed into it in thick fog over New York City on July 28, 1945

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A US Marine carries his 1919 Browning machine gun during the freezing Korean winter during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in December 1950.

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Coca-Cola ad from 1971, “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”

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An Austrian boy rejoicing at receiving new shoes, 1915.

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A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade during the First World War. c. 1915.

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Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Smith, at their wedding in 1946.

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This is Conrad Heyer, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian who is notable for possibly being the earliest-born American to have been photographed. Taken in 1852 at age 103, Heyer was born in 1749, possibly the earliest-born photographed person.

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RMS Titanic nearing the end of its construction, 1911.

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@elonmusk Elon’s poll has about the same total votes as the entire 1912 U.S. Presidential Election—which saw a four-way election between Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Eugene Debs with a total of 14.8M votes!