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Wounded soldiers are shown under trees at Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg. The aftermath depicted was a consequence of the battle of Spotsylvania during 1864.

Photograph shows Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966), an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse with a child. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

A Union Army hospital tent is shown on the battlefield of Gettysburg--based in Pennsylvania, America. An emergency amputation is seen being performed, the outcome of the procedure was never publicly released.

On Christmas Eve in 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts captured an image that symbolizes hope and inspired environmentalism.

Black and white photograph of Jules Jacot-Guillarmod riding a horse during expedition to K2

Glass negative portrait of Edmond Johnston Garwood, British geologist and cartographer.

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911)

Mexicans entering the United States in United States immigration station, El Paso, Texas 1938

This allegorical map shows the road from Infancy to Glory or to the hellish Gulf of Death.