The document provides short summaries of 16 historically significant photographs. It describes photos such as the famous image of Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda in 1960, a photo of a young girl named Omayra Sanchez who died trapped in mud during a volcanic eruption in Colombia in 1985, and an image of a Vietnamese girl named Kim Phuc running naked after being burned by napalm dropped by US planes in 1972.