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HistoryPhotos
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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!
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- Foster a continuous learning environment.
- No genocide or atrocity denialism.
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Jewish students with their teacher in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, picture taken between 1905-1915
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One of the earliest photos of active combat - Prussian troops during the Battle of Sedan, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
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Auxiliary Territorial servicemen and servicewomen relaxing in Edinburgh, UK, WW2, 1943
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk enjoying some of the benefits of being president of the Turkish Republic, Turkiye, 1930
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Anarchist militia posing with a tractor pressed into service as a military transport, Madrid, Spanish Civil War, 1936
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Anti-fascist foreign volunteers of the Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War, ~1937
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A collection of candid street photos from spycam, Carl Størmer, Oslo Norway, Circa 1893-97
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Sun Yat-Sen after being elected provisional president of the Republic of China, 1911
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125ft Buddha statue, of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan. It stood from approximately 570 until 2001.
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It was one of two large Buddha statues in the Bamiyan valley, but they were destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban.
