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Celebrating the end of World War Two, women dance in

the street in Sydney, Australia, 2nd September 1945.

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Two Prohibition-defying 'Bootleggers' crash their car after fleeing from Capitol

police through the busiest streets of Washington D.C, USA, 21st January 1922.

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Married British actors Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh arrive

at Ciampino airport in Rome, Italy, 24th February 1953.

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This rare photograph shows a young woman smoking

opium at a den in Shanghai, China, in the 1920s.

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Photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt; a boy sells Coca-Cola

from his roadside stall in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in 1936.

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Photographed by Harry Benson; current students cheer former pupil Sir Winston

Churchill during his last visit to Harrow School in London, UK, in 1964.

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Photographed by Bill Ray; three Santa Clauses leave a downtown

IRT Subway station in New York, USA, December 1958.

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Members of the local Fire Brigade pose for a group photograph

outside the Star Hotel in Tauranga, New Zealand, July 1911.

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Photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt; a group of children watch

a puppet theatre show on a street in Paris, France, in 1963.

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Photographed by Ruth Orkin; conductor Leonard Bernstein leads the orchestra

during a rehearsal performance at Lewisohn Stadium, New York, USA, in 1947.

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Centered at the heart of the 'Little Italy' immigrant district, this early colour

Photochrome print shows Mulberry Street in New York, USA, c. 1900.

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Newly married, American actress Grace Kelly & Prince Rainier III attend their

wedding reception at the Palace Court of Honor in Monaco, 19th April 1956.

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Tourists ride in an outrigger canoe as surfers ride a wave

just off Waikiki beach in Hawaii, USA, in the 1930s.

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Members of pop group 'The Pointer Sisters' pose for photographer Herb

Greene at his studio in San Francisco, California, USA, in 1973.

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Using a 10-foot lens from 7 miles away, photographer Harold Edgerton captures

an atom bomb an instant after detonation, at a test site in Nevada, USA, c. 1952.

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All-girl jazz band the 'Flying Flappers' pose in front of their

airplane for a photographer in the USA, in the mid-1920s.

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After trying to deliver a petition to the King, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst

is arrested by Supt. Rolfe outside Buckingham Palace, London, UK, May 1914.

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Photographed by Peter Leibing; East German border guard Conrad Schumann

leaps into the French Sector of West Berlin, Germany, 15th August 1961.

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Famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna having

tea in the living room of their home 'Taliesin West' in Arizona, USA, in 1957.

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Wearing their white inspection tags, an immigrant family enter America

through Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York, USA, c. 1920.

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Photographed by Leo Fuchs; actress Audrey Hepburn meets some local residents

during a break in filming 'The Nun's Story' in Kisangani, the Belgian Congo, in 1959.

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Photographed by Robert F. Sargent; soldiers from the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry

Division land on D-Day's 'Omaha' beach in Normandy, France, 6th June 1944.

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Embarking on a race of 4,395 km, 80 intrepid cyclists depart on the 27th annual

Tour de France from the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France, 27th June 1933.

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This early colour Photochrome print shows a group of men

engrossed in a game of chess in Algiers, Algeria, in 1899.

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Photographed by Elliott Erwitt; the parade marking the Russian Revolution's 40th

anniversary passes through Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 25th October 1957.

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Photographed during a break in filming, British actress Elizabeth Taylor waits on

the set of historical epic 'Cleopatra' at Cinecitta Studios in Rome, Italy, in 1961.

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Playing in front of a capacity crowd, legendary baseball player

'Babe' Ruth bats for the New York Yankees, USA, c. 1921.

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Weary soldiers from an Australian 4th Division field artillery brigade pass through

Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres Salient, Belgium, 29th October 1917.

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An uncharacteristically informal Duke & Duchess of Windsor leap into

the air for photographer Philippe Halsman in England, UK, in 1956.

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The product of an unusually cold winter, a completely frozen Niagara

Falls attracts scores of visitors to Ontario, Canada, in 1936.

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British racing driver Sir Stirling Moss relaxes in the pits after the

Formula 2 Grand Prix in Monza, Italy, 13th September 1953.