The first human x-ray taken by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1896...

For his efforts Roentgen was the recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. The image is of his wife's hand.


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Using banknotes as wallpaper during hyperinflation, Germany (1923)

8 year old coal miner - 1900's

Grand Review of Union Armies After the Civil War (May, 1865)

The writer George Orwell poses with the puppy during the Spanish Civil War. Behind him is Ernest Hemingway (1937)

A Marine rifleman views the result of the American bombardment of Naha, Okinawa, Japan, on June 13, 1945

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A Panzer III tank crewman surrenders to an advancing British soldier during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of Great Britain in Berlin, 1913

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World War I, British soccer team with gas masks, 1916

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Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest - August 1939..

A Working Tugboat In Greece..

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Teenage fighters during the Warsaw uprising in Poland in 1944

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