Anybody can use Photoshop, but doing a good job remains a craft. Professional colorist from Brazil, Marina Amaral, doesn't just click-and-drag. Driven by her burning obsession with history, Marina does extensive research to make her colorizations as realistic as possible, too.
Amaral has played with Photoshop since she was about ten. In 2015, she was scrolling a history forum on the internet and discovered colorized photos of World War I. Instantly inspired, Amaral started restoring and putting color into photos that were originally black and white. This allows people to experience the past through a whole new perspective. "Each photo is made to be realistic by recognizing the value behind each one of them, respecting and preserving their stories, paying attention to the finer details and maintaining their original essence."
"Every completed work has gone through long and in depth research, and is supported by the opinions of experts in each particular area if necessary, to faithfully reproduce the original colors and atmosphere," she adds. "My work ranges from simple portraits to complex and detailed images, taken from various historical periods covering a wide range of topics." Continue scrolling to enjoy Marina's wonderful work.
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#1 Ruby Bridges, Escorted By US Marshals To Attend An All-White School, 1960
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#2 Cree Man, Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1903
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#3 Monet
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#4 A Photographer Uses His Own Backdrop To Mask Poland's World War II Ruins While Shooting A Portrait In Warsaw In November 1946
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#5 Lewis Powell. He Was A Conspirator With John Wilkes Booth, Who Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
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#6 Marie Sklodowska Curie
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#7 Four Female Pilots Leaving Their Ship, Pistol Packin' Mama, At The Four Engine School At Lockbourne AAF, 1944
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#8 Queen Elizabeth II
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#9 Banana Docks, New York. CA 1890 – 1910
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#10 Finnish Sniper Simo Häyhä, White Death
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#11 Titanic Orphans, Brothers Michel And Edmond Navratil, 1912. They Were The Only Children To Be Rescued From The Titanic Without A Parent Or Guardian
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#12 Eunice Hancock, A 21-Year-Old Woman, Operates A Compressed-Air Grinder In A Midwest Aircraft Plant During World War II. August 1942
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#13 Roza Shanina, A 19-Year-Old Russian WWII Sniper With 59 Confirmed Kills
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#14 Young Kenyan Woman Holding A Dik-Dik, Mombasa, 1909
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#15 The Most Intelligent Picture Ever Taken: Participants Of The 5th Solvay Conference On Quantum Mechanics, 1927
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#16 Men Of 72 Highlanders Who Served In The Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison And John Harper, 1853 – 1856
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#17 Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth II. 2 June, 1953
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#18 Senator John F. Kennedy And Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy On Their Wedding Day. September 12, 1953
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#19 Grigori Rasputin. Lover Of The Russian Empress
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#20 Private Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry, Standing Inprivate Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry, Standing In Reverence Before An Altar In A Damaged Catholic Church (Santa Maria Degli Angeli). Acerno, Italy, September 1943
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#21 Hermann Göring Sits In The Dock At The Nuremberg Trial, 1946
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#22 Einstein And Chaplin
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#23 Italian Immigrants Arrive At Ellis Island, 1905
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#24 Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
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#25 Albert Einstein, 1 March 1921
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#26 Winston Churchill As A Cornet In The 4th Queen's Hussar's Cavalry, 1895
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#27 Queen Victoria And Her Family, Including King Edward VII, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, Kaiser Wilhelm II And Empress Frederick At A Wedding In Coburg, Germany, 1894
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#28 Lincoln, 1860
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#29 Faces Of Auschwitz: Janina Nowak
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#30 The Liberation Of Bergen-Belsen, April 1945
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#31 A Group Of Bootblacks Gather Around An Old Civil War Veteran In Pennsylvania, 1935
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#32 Sami Girl, 1938, Suenjel, Petsamo
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#33 American Infantrymen Of The U.S. Army’s 92nd Infantry Division (“Buffalo Soldiers Division”) Are Photographed At Rest In Italy. April 1945
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#34 Before And After The Facial Reconstruction Of A Wounded Soldier During World War I
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#35 Jack Kerouac
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#36 Queen Elizabeth Great Grandmother
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#37 Civil Rights March On Washington, D. C. With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Mathew Ahmann In A Crowd
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#38 Filthy Thirteen Member Clarence Ware Applies War Paint To Charles Plaudo. England, 31 December 1943
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#39 School At Anthoston, Kentucky, 1916
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#40 Otto Frank Anexo
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#41 Bull Chief, An Indian Warrior, Apsaroke Tribe. The Photo Was Taken In 1908 By Edward S. Curtis. He Is Wearing A Buffalo Headdress With Horns
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#42 Unemployed Lumber Worker (Thomas Cave) Goes With His Wife (Vivian) To The Bean Harvest, Oregon, August 1939
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#43 Booker T. Washington
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#44 Soccer Team Of British WWI Soldiers Wearing Gas Masks, France, 1916
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#45 Brazilian Army Pvt. Francisco De Paula Of The Brazilian Expeditionary Force During The Italian Campaign, WWII
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#46 Photograph From The Main Eastern Theater Of The War, Battle Of Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, And Maj. Gen. John A. Mcclernand, 1862
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#47 Gustave Eiffel
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#48 Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria
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#49 James Dean
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#50 RMS Mauretania, 1909
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#51 Dumpu, New Guinea, 7 October 1943. Members Of The 2/2nd Australian Independent Company
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#52 A Slovak Woman With Her Child - Ellis Island Immigrants, 1900s
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#53 Ice-Skaters On Ice In Tuxedo Park, New York, Circa 1904
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#54 Angoni Warriors At King George V’s Coronation Celebrations, Zomba, 1911
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#55 Yuri Gagarin
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#56 Malmö, Skåne, Sweden, 1910
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#57 Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi
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#58 Old Peasant With Dagger And Long Smoking Pipe, Mestia, Svanetia, Georgia
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#59 Sami People And A Traditional Peat Hut, CA. 1850
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#60 Mark Twain 1900s
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#61 Covent Garden Laborers, 1877, London
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#62 Dominikus Müller
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#63 A German Soldier With A Saw Tooth Bayonet Stands In A Dugout Wearing His Brow Plate Slid Down To His Neck, World War One
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#64 Canadian Soldiers Celebrating After Fighting On Vimy Ridge, April 1917
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#65 Greta Garbo, 1939
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#66 Titanic Prepares To Leave Port, 1912
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#67 Big Ben 1920
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#68 Santa Claus With Christmas Toys On A Sled Drawn By White Turkeys, 1909
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#69 Jackie Robinson Of The Brooklyn Dodgers, Posed And Ready To Swing - 1 January 1954
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#70 Martin Luther King
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#71 A German Soldier Being Captured During The Battle Of Moscow, 1 Dec 1941
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#72 August Kowalczyk
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#73 A US Soldier Stands Amid Crates And Stacks Of Loot Stored By Nazi Germany In Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Bavaria, 1945
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#74 A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Takes Down The Information Of A U.S. Marine Of The 1st Marine Division Who Was Killed On The Beach Of Peleliu During The American Landings Of The Battle Of Peleliu (Operation Stalemate II)
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#75 US Marine Corps Private First Class Faris M. Tuohy Drinking A Cup Of Coffee Aboard A Ship Off Eniwetok After Two Days Of Fighting, Marshall Islands, Feb 1944
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#76 President John F. Kennedy With His Son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., In The Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC - 25 May 1962
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#77 Working On Lincoln, Mt. Rushmore 1937
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#78 Mikhail Kalashnikov
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#79 Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, Also Known As Lawrence Of Arabia
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#80 President Theodore Roosevelt In His Rough Riders Uniform With His Signature Blue Polka-Dotted Scarf, 26 October 1898
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#81 Grand Duchesses Tatiana And Olga Romanov
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#82 Donald W. Stulp, A Baker For The Omar Bakery In Omaha
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#83 September 1942. New York. Drinking Fountain In Central Park On Sunday
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#84 Al Capone
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#85 Paris Street In The June Days Uprising, 1848
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#86 General Douglas Macarthur, 1930
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#87 Thomas Edison Relaxing On A “Vagabonds” Camping Trip, 1921
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#88 Photograph Of The Nimrod Expedition (1907-09) To The Antarctic, Led By Ernest Shackleton
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#89 Royal Marine Commandos D Day
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#90 The Jersey Shore Circa 1905
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#91 Edgar Allan Poe
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#92 Fridtjof Nansen
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#93 Newsies At Skeeter's Branch. St. Louis, Missouri - May 9, 1910 (Lewis Hine)
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#94 A Bedouin In His Happy Mood
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#95 A 1st Royal Ulster Rifles, 6th Airborne Division (UK) Sniper, On Patrol In The Ardennes, Wearing A Snow Camouflage Suit. 14 January 1945
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#96 Empress Alexandra And Tsar Nicholas II
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#97 A National Socialist Helps An Elderly Woman From A Polling Station During The German Federal Election, Berlin, November 1932
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#98 Daredevil John "Jammie" Reynolds Performing Acrobatic And Balancing Acts On High Cornice Above 9th Street, N.W. - 1917
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#99 Leon Trotsky
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#100 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1889
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#101 Emmeline Pankhurst, C.1910
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#102 Sir Winston Churchill In His Knight Of The Garter Robes, His Son Randolph, And Grandson, Winston. Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation Day, 1953
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#103 Tsar Nicholas II, Last Russian Emperor
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#104 US Marines In An LCVP Approaching Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 Feb 1945
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#105 Franz Liszt
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#106 American Troops Prepare Nazi Major General Anton Dostler For Execution For Killing 15 OSS Men, Italy, 1945
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#107 Leo Tolstoy
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#108 Massaponax Church, VA. Council Of War, 1864
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#109 A Prisoner Of War (Pow) Is A Person, Whether Combatant Or Non-Combatant, Who Is Held In Custody By A Belligerent Power During Or Immediately After An Armed Conflict. The Earliest Recorded Usage Of The Phrase "Prisoner Of War" Dates To 1660
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#110 A Sniper From "C" Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch In Position In A Ruined Building In Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945
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#111 Archduke Franz Ferdinand And His Wife, Sophie, Leave Sarajevo City Hall On June 28, 1914, Shortly Before They Were Killed. Within 30 Days, Wwi Would Begin
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#112 Ted Williams
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#113 Marine Identified As Sgt Angelo Klonis Smoking A Cigarette During The Final Days Of Fighting To Gain Control Of The Island Of Saipan From Occupying Japanese Forces During WWII, 1944
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#114 Arthur Schopenhauer By J Schäfer, 1859
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#115 American Soldiers, Paris
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#116 Hitler With Some Of His SS-Begleitkommando Guards At The Wolf’s Lair In East Prussia
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#117 Dom Pedro II, Last Emperor Of Brazil
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#118 Jackie Kennedy
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#119 Recruiting Sergeants At Westminster, Mitre And Dove Pub, 1877
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#120 Jacquelyn Kennedy
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#121 Elvis Presley's Second Appearance In The Ed Sullivan Show
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#122 Margaret Thatcher
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#123 Max Planck
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#124 Tsar Nicholas II
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#125 General George S. Patton Acknowledging The Cheers Of The Welcoming Crowds In Los Angeles, Ca, During His Visit On June 9, 1945
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#126 Robert Falcon Scott
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#127 Richard M. Nixon And Elvis Presley At The White House, 12/21/1970
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#128 Armia Krajowa
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#129 Napoleon’s Grande Armée Veterans. Burg – Fourrier Of The Grenadiers Of The Imperial Guard. Delignon – Marechal De Logis Guard Jager 1809 – 1815 (Actually Marechal Des Logis Chef - Sergeant Major Chasseurs ‘A’ Cheval De La Garde Imperiale.
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#130 Liberator Crew Of No 311 (Czech) Squadron And Dog Sat On The Wing Of A Liberator Mk IIA, Possibly Serial Number LV343 At RAF Beaulieu, 21 July 1943.
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#131 Hesse And By Rhine Family In 1876
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#132 Jim Clark At 1965 Dutch Grand Prix
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#133 Maj. Greg Pappy Boyington
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#134 Bringing Canadian Wounded To The Field Dressing Station At Vimy Ridge In April 1917
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#135 Charles De Gaulle
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#136 Ulysses S. Grant, Ca. 1873
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#137 Exercise Horse Artillery Corps, Arnhem (Netherlands), Ca. 1900, Exercise At A Training Ground
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#138 King George V, 1914
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#139 Edward VII At His Coronation, 1902
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#140 American Civil War: Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior View Of The Breach, April 1862
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#141 Band Of Brothers - Eagles Nest
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#142 Ty Cobb - Detroit Tigers V New York Yankees, 1909
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#143 King Oscar II Of Sweden And Norway
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#144 Prince Edward, Later King Edward VIII, Dressed In An Ermine Gown, 1911
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#145 Friedrich Ebert
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#146 John Surratt
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#147 Stalin In March 1935
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#148 Ayrton Senna At The 1991 US Grand Prix
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#149 Adolf Hitler
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