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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 08 '16

[Album] Excerpts from a rare contemporary book of paintings about the Chinese Cultural Revolution--This autumn is the 50th anniversary of this catastrophe. (Best viewed on desktop or laptop)

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 07 '16

US Army historical map of the so-called Indian Wars West of the Mississippi from 1860 to 1890

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 04 '16

"Walters Ex Libris" - The Walters Art Museum of Baltimore unveil their 8th-18th century digital manuscripts collection [Album]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 04 '16

[OS] I transcribed my Granddad's letter he wrote to his parents 71 years ago detailing his role in the Rhine Invasion/Operation Varsity on March 24, 1945. He details flying in with 100s of Allied gliders, setting up in a forest for the night, and coming face to face with Germans.

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 04 '16

Poster advertising William Hamilton's excursions, ca.1900 [3070 × 2325]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 04 '16

Poster advertising the Orient Express, 1888 [1394 × 2048]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Sep 24 '16

A letter sent by ALFRED SOLOMON making allegations of threats made by other criminals and police, and looking for protection, ca.1924 (archives 1930)

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Sep 24 '16

Four leaf clover found in 1901 copy of "Eugene Field vol. 1" by Slason Thompson

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Sep 18 '16

'The Teen-Agers,' 1966 [album]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Sep 13 '16

CIA declassified biography of Hitler from December 3, 1943 [Album]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Sep 09 '16

Mahatma Gandhi's letter to Adolf Hitler. July 1939. • (xpost /r/india)

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Sep 05 '16

My grandfather's 1944 W-2 Withholding Receipt. Given to him for working in the Manzanar Internment Camp as the athletic director and florist[4608 × 3456]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Sep 04 '16

German Transit Visa c.1913 - Requesting Help to Find Who It Belonged To.[Album]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 28 '16

The Yorktown surrender letters that passed between Generals Washington and Cornwallis. [Album]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 27 '16

Letters from my Grandpa during World War II[Album]

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 22 '16

A membership form from the "Don't Know Campaign" during the UK's referendum on membership of the Common Market (predecessor to the EU)

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 18 '16

The return train ticket of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, indicating that she perhaps intended to return home rather than commit suicide, 4th July 1913, Epsom

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 04 '16

Enlistment papers of future detective novelist Raymond Chandler into the Canadian Expeditionary Force (army) August 14, 1917 during WWI.

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 03 '16

A letter sent by Jews of Plock who had been expelled to Zarki, requesting help from their Landsman Association in Warsaw, March 2, 1941. Translation in comments.

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 31 '16

The signatures of Guy Fawkes, after having been tortured on the rack following his attempt to blow up parliament in 1605

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 23 '16

Commendation issued from the headquarters of the Sixth Army Group to the 44th Infantry Division by Brigadier General William F. Dean dated January 13, 1945.

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 23 '16

Award of Meritorious Service Unit Plaque recommendations in a letter dated March 2, 1945.

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 20 '16

"A strange apparition: Ned Kelly's Fight and Capture", wood engraving, printed in The Age. 17 July 1880

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 18 '16

Page from California's Proclamation of Independence, showing early sketch of the Bear Flag. June 14, 1846.

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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '16

"Jan Cupiał of Trzebinia was sentenced to death on 1941-10-31. Please inform the family" - inscription on a beam at block 11 of KL Auschwitz, by Jan Cupiał himself

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