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A Chinese American wearing a sign to avoid harassment, 1940s

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Tony Kiritsis holding a shotgun to the head of his mortgage broker, Richard Hall. Kiritsis had fallen behind on mortgage payments. When Hall refused to grant him an extension, Kirtsis kidnapped him and held him hostage for 63 hours (Indiana, 1977) .

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A wedding in Hawaii in the 1970s

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'His Struggle, Your Death' — Soviet photomontage from the Second World War (ca. 1941) by Aleksandr Zhitomirsky.

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The Agony of Omayra Sánchez, by Frank Fournier. 1985.

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A security guard walking down US Highway 101 where there are towering stacks of hollow iron floats from which the iron antisubmarine nets were suspended to protect the US ports during the last war, by Hank Walker, 1953.

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Carol waiting for her date, 1952

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On this day (1978) Microsoft took its first staff photo

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The Maiden, a child found frozen on the volcano Llullaillaco in Argentina, The photograph was taken shortly after her discovery in 1995

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“The Rape of Europa”, a painting by Ilya Glazunov, 2012

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Darrell Night talks to the press after the convictions of two police officers who left him to die. He exposed the decades-long practice of "starlight tours", in which police drove indigenous people to the outskirts of cities and left them to die in sub-zero temperatures (Canada, 2001) .

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6 sisters and 1 photobombing dad

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