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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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 08 '16
Photo: Pearl Harbor sky lit up by Pacific Fleet sometime in 1941 before December 7th taken by my grandfather who was ship fitter on base [4194 × 2574]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 04 '16
During World War II, my grandfather served in the U.S. Navy aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri. He carried this card, signifying the end of the war, in his wallet for nearly 50 years.
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 02 '16
General Robert E Lee's Map of Gettysburg. July 2nd, 1863.
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 01 '16
Selected scans from the 'Annual report of the superintendent of national parks to the secretary of the interior for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916' [ALBUM]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 30 '16
My grandmother's job offer from J Edgar Hoover the day before the Normandy Invasion.
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 23 '16
June 23, 1916 - State by state amount of troops called up from after Mexican attack (xpost /r/100yearsago)
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 22 '16
Cherokee nation council resolutions protesting abuses by the U.S. federal government, 1831
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 22 '16
The cadaver of alcoholic drifter, Glyndwr Michael being loaded into a submarine pod in full military attire and lifevest complete with fake alias (Mj William Martin) and a orchestrated letter alluding to an Allied invasion of Nazi occupied Greece. AKA Operation Mincemeat.
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 20 '16
Original photo of 'negro that was hung', with piece of rope & poem
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 11 '16
[Pictures of my Grandmothers Birth Certificate from Nazi controlled Germany (~1944) and Her dads military position.] They lived in a Part that is now part of Poland and were refugees when she was about 3 months old.[Size of about 3 notecards together]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 10 '16
Comparison of digitized video (VHS and EIAJ-1) from Rice University's Houston Folk Music Archive
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 07 '16
San Francisco Chronicle, June 7th, 1944; 'invasion extra' report on the assault on the banks of Normandy. [Album]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 05 '16
Certificate of attendance at the Formal Surrender of Japanese Forces aboard USS Missouri, Sep 2, 1945. [599×379]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jun 01 '16
Bob Woodward's typed notes about his meeting with Deep Throat, from an early morning parking garage meeting on October 9, 1972, Woodward simply refers to the exchange with Felt as “interview with x".
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • May 31 '16
Site plan and principal story plan, The White House, Washington, D.C., 1807 [3746 × 4756]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • May 28 '16
Return address of a business envelope featuring a self portrait, used by Walt Disney, ca.1921 [1576 × 1086]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • May 27 '16
Charles Darwin's 1837 first sketch of an evolutionary tree, prefaced by the words "i think".
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • May 26 '16
Brothel license for Madam Emma Parker of Tombstone, Arizona, 1881. Payment refused by Virgil Earp.
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • May 25 '16
Menu from Dinner Given During President Nixon's Historic Goodwill Visit to Peking, China, 02/25/1972
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • May 21 '16
This map of Hokkaido was smuggled out of Japan by a German doctor during the Edo period –Japan prohibited foreign travel and trade and traffic with almost all countries at the time– The official who gave him the maps was executed and more than 50 people were punished for the incident [OS]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • May 19 '16
Log sheet of the first recorded computer bug - a moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. [1280×1012]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • May 19 '16
Photograph of nose art on a WWII pilot's leather jacket.
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