Shell shocked soldier (bottom left) in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive. 1916

After spending five days with five men cutting down a single sequoia, Walter Fry counted the growth rings on the fallen giant. The answer shocked him into changing careers. In just a few days they had ended 3266 years of growth. Fry later became a Park Ranger and, in 1912, Sequoia National Parks’ Superintendent.

An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in the cockpit of an airplane during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport the youngster to a field hospital. July, 1944

Belgium coal miners crammed into a coal mine elevator, coming up after a day of work, circa 1900.

Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast in the early 1930’s

The U.S. Army destroys the Nazi Swastika over the Nuremberg parade grounds, 1945

Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange 1936

General William T. Sherman during the Atlanta Campaign, 1864

African girl in human zoo at the 1958 Expo in Brussels had a ‘Congo Village’ (Congo was a Belgian colony) where Congolese people were ‘displayed’. Belgium 1958

A sailor gets a tattoo on his arm in Norfolk, Virginia. 1938

A soldier poses with a Hythe Mk III Gun Camera during training activities at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas in April of 1918.

Chinese Americans labeling themselves to avoid being confused with the hated Japanese Americans, 1941

Residents of West Berlin showing their children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, May 9th, 1961

Prostitutes on display in Yoshiwara during the Meiji period, 1882

Nazi Physician Fritz Klein forced to bury Holocaust victims at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. 1945

Laika, the first dog in space. No provisions were made for her return, and she died there 1957