Well-known iconic photographs

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Roger Fenton (20 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers. In 1855 Fenton went to the Crimean War on assignment for the publisher Thomas Agnew to photograph the troops, with a photographic assistant Marcus Sparling and a servant and a large van of equipment. Despite high temperatures, breaking several ribs, and suffering from cholera, he managed to make over 350 usable large format negatives. An exhibition of 312 prints was soon on show in London…

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Richard and Mildred Loving whose interracial marriage in Virginia was not considered legal . Taking their case to the Supreme Court in 1967 , the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision determined that this prohibition was unconstitutional , ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the USA…

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The walk of purpose: Gandhiji begins the Dandi March on 12th March, 1930.
Also called Salt Satyagraha, the march was a protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India. It also widened the Civil Disobedience Movement.

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Brandi Chastain celebrates her game-winning penalty kick in the 1999 Women’s World Cup final.

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Gen. Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem, December 11, 1917. Defeat in the First World War brought the Ottoman Empire to the brink of collapse. Within five years Turkey had become a republic.
 
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Yes, the Jaffa gate. The photograph has been cropped here, cutting off the tower.
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That’s a better photo!! As it shows the Ottoman clock tower, which was demolished in 1922.
 
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The President learns that we’re under attack, September 11, 2001

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Mmm there is a similarity there, though as Peter aged his cheeks became distinctively hollow.
 
Victor Prout created a makeshift dark room on board a boat , seen in the photograph . He used to travel along a stretch of the River Thames capturing images of iconic landmarks in the 1850s like this one of Windsor Castle (top right)

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The same view today - - - - - - - - -

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Wright brothers first flight.
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The “germ of laziness” was discovered.

The great program to eradicate the American hookworm.

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An 1850s photograph taken overlooking the River Thames, of Richmond Bridge …

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A photograph of the same scene today…

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An atomic cloud over Hiroshima, photographed on August 6, 1945, from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress nicknamed the Enola Gay

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The head of the Statue of Liberty on display in a park in Paris , 1880…

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St Paul’s Cathedral survives the Second Great Fire of London on December 29th 1940.

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