Samuel Bourne, Vishnu Pud and Other Temples near the Burning Gat, Benares, India, ca. 1865.
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Samuel Bourne, Vishnu Pud and Other Temples near the Burning Gat, Benares, India, ca. 1865.
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Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley, six weeks after the city was destroy by the world’s second atomic bomb attack. Photograph by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (United States Marine Corps). Nagasaki, Japan, September 1945.
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A man walking through the remains of an ancient temple in Athens. Photograph by Dmitri Kessel. Athens, Greece, December 1944.
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A young family sitting on the steps of the Temple of Antonino and Faustena. Photograph by Thomas D. McAvoy. Rome, Italy, 1940.
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Hindu woman praying at a sacred tree at the Birla Temple. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White. New Delhi, India, 1946.
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