What is the context and significance of the photograph? How was it received at the time of publication? What other concurrent historical or social factors were at play?
Image: Eisenstaedt, Alfred. V-J Day in Times Square. 1945. LIFE magazine. Gale eBooks, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3630800521/GVRL?u=wash_main&sid=GVRL&xid=72cc67d6. Accessed 21 Jan. 2020.
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