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Historical Military Events

A collection of poignant photographs documenting wartime actions, including expulsions, evacuations, and uprisings during significant historical conflicts.

The mass expulsion of 18-20,000 Poles from the territory of ywiec County (codename: “Aktion Saybusch”), conducted by the Nazi-German occupants in autumn 1940.
The mass expulsion of 18-20,000 Poles from the territory of ywiec County (codename: “Aktion Saybusch”), conducted by the Nazi-German occupants in autumn 1940.
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Funeral service for the February Revolution Victims in Petrograd. March 1917, Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)
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05/31/1918. Current events in Catalonia. 1.-Inauguration of the V Toy Exhibition at the Industrial University of Barcelona. 2.-group of Flags that Figured in the traditionalist "Aplech" of Vich. 3.-Departure of the Runners in the test back to Barcelona -.
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Women doing war work. Loading soldiers helmets for delivery to the front line. England during world war one 1916
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In August 1976, tribute was paid to Blas Infante for the first time at kilometer four of the Carmona highway. As it appears on the left, a small sign remembers that he was shot there. On the right, Abc cover from December 4, 1977 in which a child carries the flag of Andalusia in front of the Ronda pit.
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servizio eruzione del vesuvio del 4 aprile 1906, vesuvio, sgombero della cenere dell'osservatorio durante l'eruzione, 1906
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Charity Festival in favor of the wounded victims, probably carried out in late autumn, maybe only in December 1916.
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06/30/1917. On the Western Front - Artillery Ammunition Depot (75 Howitzer) on a farm near Crony (Aishe).
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Black and white photograph of a celebration in Rome on the first anniversary of the Italian Empire, 0 May 1937. A cohort of indigenous African troops march by the King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869-1946; King 1900-1945) and Benito Mussolini (1883-1945).
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Celebrating Rus. i.e. Russian Revolution, Vladivostock
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Abyssinian delegation visits Fiat in Turin.
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French legionnaire colonial soldiers on patrol near the Atlas Mountains, Morocco. postcard 1909
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All-russian Soviet Worker Deputies Congress united session at Tavricheski Palace. Petrograd, January, 1918. 

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The Day's Orders (L'Ordre du Jour) Made 1859 France. In this highly staged composition, which he nevertheless presented as a news photograph, Camille Silvy adapted a traditional genre painting for the depiction of a topical event. In May 1859, Emperor Napoleon III led the French Army into Italy to aid the controversial Italian unification movement (and secure the region of Nice for France). To rally French citizens behind his undertaking, the emperor sent his address to the frontline troopsóthe ìDayís Ordersîóinstantly by electric telegraph back to Paris, where it was printed overnight and posted in the streets. Silvy staged an image of the populace gathering before a poster; two of the men, who turn to face the camera, represent the intellectual and revolutionary factions opposed to the virtual police state that characterized Paris under the emperorís reign. The following week, the newspaper LíIllustration printed a lithographic reproduction of the photograph, making this picture one
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11/30/1937. The Residents of Teruel Return To Their Homes in the Neighborhoods Taken by the Republican Army.
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Germans prisoners of war. Dr. A.A. Allington, Dean of Durham Cathedral, calls the 1100 German prisoners of war who helped with the harvest "my German brothers", during a church service. Prisoners of war for the cathedral. October 28, 1946. Durham (Great Britain)
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07/31/1936. Toledo (Spain). Spanish Civil War. Liberation war: group of red militiamen in Toledo.
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A Scots Battalion marching through Es Salt, Palestine, during the First World War. Date: circa 1918
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12/31/1929. Guipuzcoa. Cegama valley hamlet.
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soldiers indoctrinated during the Cultural Revolution. China 1967
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Vicence, Italy group of nurses with a soldier and a priest , 1918 - Italy - Fernand Cuville - (March -August) (French - Vicence , Italie Groupe d' infirmières avec un soldat et un prêtre). Woman, religious habit, military uniform, cemetery, Christianity, group portrait, rear, medical staff, hairstyle , headgear, red cross, man, army, Human beings, clothing, religion, First World War, Health, Society, Italy, Vicenza, nursing group of the Italian Red Cross
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Assistance to refugees. (3-7-15) WAR 1914-1918. Assistance to refugees. Photograph of Charles Lansiaux (1855-1939), July 3, 1915.