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Teenage sisters Gertrude and Ursula Falke. Germany, 1906
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5-year-old after day’s work, was tired and refused to be photographed, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1911. Photo by Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee.
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An estimated one million people filled the streets of New York City on June 10, 1991 to celebrate the return of 24,000 U.S. troops from Operation “Desert Storm”. Nearly 700,000 U.S. troops were deployed to the Persian Gulf region as part of a multinational force to free Kuwait from Iraq.
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"Throwing away the flags of Fascism", Moscow Victory Parade (June 1945) Colorized film
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Aboriginal prisoners in neck chains guarded by a police officer, Western Australia, 1901.
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Meiko Kaji, star of 'Lady Snowblood', inspiration for Tarantino's 'Kill Bill', in the Tokyo subway in the 1970s
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1945 Nuremberg Trials, Nazi officials, including Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess, were seen laughing, famously captured in photos often captioned as a reaction to translation mistakes or witness testimony
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Out of the 750,000 who fought for the Confedaracy in the Civil War, these were the last 3 alive in 1951, together.
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Ota Benga, a Congolese Mbuti pygmy, exhibited in the monkey cage at the Bronx Zoo. He was forced to smile and show his sharpened teeth to thousands of visitors, 1906.
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