The Last Prayer

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

Bonnie & Clyde’s bullet-riddled Ford V8, 1934

Walt Disney designed a gas mask for children during World War II

Dead, frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish soldiers as a warning to other Soviet soldiers during the 1939-40 Winter War

A young Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 1930’s

Teddy Roosevelt’s entry in his journal from Feb. 14, 1884, when both his wife and mother passed away within hours of each other

Portrait of a Union soldier in Missouri, 1863

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

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

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

World War I German Cavalry Lancer, 1918

Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives to a South Korean Soldier thinking that they are going to be executed, Korea 1951

Last public guillotining in France (Eugen Weidmann), an event witnessed by the actor Christopher Lee. 17 June 1939

Activist Dion Diamond sitting on a counter stool during a civil rights sit-in, Arlington, 1960

Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII

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