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Title
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Artist
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Medium & Support
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Creation Date
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The liberation of France: Oradour-sur-Glane
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Cartier-Bresson, Henri
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Gelatin silver print on paper
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1944 (printed c. 1955)
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Sacha Guitry, French actor and playwright, interrogated at the Hôtel de Ville about his relations with the Germans upon the liberation of Paris
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Cartier-Bresson, Henri
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Ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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August 23, 1944
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Two of the thousands who fell in the Battle for the Beachland sprawl out on a hillside in Normandy, near the beach where the Allies first landed
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United States Navy Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 1944
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“Ducks” (amphibious trucks) and a half-track follow foot troops ashore during opening of Allied invasion of France on a 100-mile front along the Normandy coast
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
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June 6, 1944
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Photo of shattered German defenses on a Normandy beach shows the strength and intricacy of the fortifications that Allied assault troops faced
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment on paper
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June 1944
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Somewhere in Normandy, two tanks fire their bazookas at a German tank, with camera, recording the moment when the tank goes up in smoke and flame
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Unknown Photographer
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Wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
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August 1944
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Allied forces believe this huge, unfinished construction project was intended by the Germans to launch pilotless rocket planes. It was captured by Allies in Normandy.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 1944
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Clouds of smoke billow from an Allied merchantman hit by Axis bombing in an Algerian harbor. Men fight flames as though there is no danger of exploding munitions and gasoline.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
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March 1943
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Sheared off by a shell, the mammoth clock of the Cherbourg Railroad Station lies on a staircase, testimony to the force of the Allied bombardment
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
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July 1944
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Reconnaissance picture of the Nazi airfield and aircraft works at Villacoublay, near Paris, just four hours after a raid by Flying Fortresses
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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August 1943
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A statue of the composer Beethoven stands intact in his birth city of Bonn, Germany. It looks out over the wreckage of an air raid shelter.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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March 1945
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The multiple crossings of the Rhine on 215-mile front made by Allied armies probably included scenes like these. Here a tank and other vehicles cross the river in Germany on a pontoon bridge.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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March 1945
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A street in the central part of Berlin is covered in smoke from fires started by incendiary bombs dropped by Allied planes
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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July 31, 1945
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This poster of a machine gunner in a bomber cockpit with the slogan “Don’t let him down” is the fourth in a series being sent to defense plants by the OEM
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage gelatin silver print with applied pigment and airbrushing on paper
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September 1941
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Twin 3-inch anti-aircraft guns mounted on the deck of the British liner Mauretania. The ship slipped into New York Harbor 24 hours ahead of schedule.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage gelatin silver print with airbrushing on paper
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September 1939
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Volunteers jam Army recruiting station in Chicago. American youth responded to Japan’s attack by appearing in unprecedented numbers.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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December 1941
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Obeying the law, young men of the peaceful “plain people”, the Amish of Southern Pennsylvania, register for the draft. View in the firehouse at Intercourse, PA.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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October 1940
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This view of the British Liner Queen Mary as she put out to sea today was made from under a gun aboard her sister ship, the Lancastria, inbound from Liverpool
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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March 1940
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Hauling a piece of artillery along the beach after the landing
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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October 1942
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Part of the line in the Ram tank factory, second largest arsenal for tank production in the world
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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September 1942
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Clad in asbestos suits, the fire squad of the HMS Furious drill at wheeling their extinguishers on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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October 1941
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Only a skeleton of this hangar at Littoria Airport, near Rome, remains after severe pin-point bombing by Allies
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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June 1944
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A large oil and gas dump in Sicily was only empty cans when the Allies arrived. Before surrendering Roccopalunba, Axis armies set the fuel on fire.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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August 1943
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After the Allies chased the Nazis out of Sicily, a family’s possessions are being carted back to their home from a hill hide-out
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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November 1943
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People of Castel Di Sangro start rebuilding as soon as Allies liberated their town. Women spread wheat to dry as others search for furnishings in wrecked homes.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
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December 1943
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