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This is a very interesting picture. Where were there slaves in 1907? What a haunting reminder of the terrible ways we have treated our fellow man.
 
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A daguerreotype photograph of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the inventor of the daguerreotype process of photography. 📷
 
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In the Guinness Brewery in Dublin workers watch as yeast is skimmed off the top of the beer before it is passed to vats for maturing

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Enjoying a pint of Guinness at John Mullet’s bar on Amiens Street in Dublin
 
A stranded Dutch warship evaded the enemy by disguising itself as an island, 1942

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After eight days, the ship reached Australia and fought with the Allies until the end of the war

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A lady with two slaves, in Bahia, Brazil, 1860.

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Here a photo of the temporary church they built at my parish before they built the permanent structure
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My parish has 2 churches in the collaborative one of them burnt down in the 80s here is how that one used to look like they suspect it was arson
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The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922.

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Bloody Saturday” – A crying Chinese baby amid the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station after a Japanese air strike on August 28, 1937.

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Baby Boomers , a staff nurse greets some new arrivals at the Queen Charlotte Hospital in London, 1945.

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A polar bear in the flooded bear enclosure in the Botanical Gardens in the Paris floods of 1910

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In front of Gare Saint-Lazare.

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Two men travel down the street in an improvised boat.

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An African in the German Imperial Army 1870-1918 .
Josef Mambo (born in 1885 in Tanga, East Africa) was brought to Germany as a child (1897) and later served as the kettle drummer in the 3rd Prussian Horse Grenadiers . During the First World War he was promoted through the ranks to Sergeant and was twice wounded, once in Russia and once at Verdun.

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I don’t know if someone has already posted this, but here’s a very famous photograph by Dorothea Lange.

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“Migrant Mother” (1936, The Great Depression)
 
Cardinal Newman in Rome in May 1879 when he had received the Red Hat .

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The village of Wilhelm Burger, near Yokohama, Japan, in 1869. This photograph was taken by Wilhelm Burger, who was attached to the Austro-Hungarian diplomatic mission which travelled to the Far East to develop commercial relations .

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The Wuppertal Suspension Railway, perched above the river Wupper in the German town of Wuppertal, photographed on January 8, 1913.

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