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17 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

interesting stuff from the history vault

By Nathan Johnson

Published 7 years ago in Wow

interesting stuff from the history vault

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1
A U.S. Soldier’s snapshot of Marilyn Monroe visiting the troops in Korea, 1954

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2
The identification card of Anny Horowitz, a French Jewish girl murdered in Auschwitz, 1940

3
Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII
4
Activist Dion Diamond sitting on a counter stool during a civil rights sit-in, Arlington, 1960

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5
Last public guillotining in France (Eugen Weidmann), an event witnessed by the actor Christopher Lee. 17 June 1939
6
Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives to a South Korean Soldier thinking that they are going to be executed, Korea 1951
7
World War I German Cavalry Lancer, 1918

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8
Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried in the same cemetery because of their religion, 1888
9
Marilyn Monroe wearing the (sheer, tight, skin-color) dress that made the audience gasp when she sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President”. It was so tight fitting, that she reportedly wore nothing underneath. May 19, 1962
10
The Last Prayer

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11
Portrait of a Union soldier in Missouri, 1863
12
Teddy Roosevelt’s entry in his journal from Feb. 14, 1884, when both his wife and mother passed away within hours of each other
13
A young Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 1930’s

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14
Dead, frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish soldiers as a warning to other Soviet soldiers during the 1939-40 Winter War
15
Walt Disney designed a gas mask for children during World War II
16
Bonnie & Clyde’s bullet-riddled Ford V8, 1934

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17
WWII…Italian soldier dies in North Africa with the photo of his son in hand. The last thing his eyes wanted to see.

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