This photo represents U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division who raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, on Feb. 23. From a cavalry camp showing people, horses and tents on the plains of Balaclava, during the Crimean War to a group of child who survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp, these historical photos will impress you.
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1855: Crimean War
A cavalry camp showing people, horses and tents on the plains of Balaclava, during the Crimean War. Roger Fenton’s photos from the Crimean War were among the earliest attempts to capture war events through photography.
Roger Fenton/Library of Congress
1862: Abraham Lincoln during Civil War
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln with General George B. McClellan and a group of officers near Antietam Creek during the Civil War.
Alexander Garnder
1903: The first flight
The photo shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight. Orville Wright was at the controls of the machine. Wilbur Wright, running alongside to balance the machine, had just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing.
Orville Wright and John T. Daniels
1906: San Francisco earthquake
Chasms seen in the street after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco, California, U.S., on April 18. Over 80 percent of San Francisco was destroyed in this earthquake and the fires that roared in its aftermath.
Library of Congress
1909: Child labor
A spinner in a cotton mill in Georgia, U.S. American sociologist and photographer Lewis Hine’s picture-driven survey of child labor in the early 20th century gave proof about its negative impacts, helping rally the society against employment of children in industry.
Lewis Hine/Library of Congress
1937: Hindenburg disaster
The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg explodes into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S., on May 6.
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1941: Churchill’s ‘V’ sign
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill shows the “V for Victory” sign, which became a rallying symbol throughout Europe during World War II.
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1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
The USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, during World War II.
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1945: The Auschwitz liberation
A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army on Jan. 27.
Alexander Vorontsov/Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images