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A Japanese woman in the 70s

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“A Fatal System Error Has Occurred in the Gulf. Continue?” USA, 1991.

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Soldier guarding confiscated grain from Ukrainian peasants, Kharkiv 1933.

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Photograph of a barricade during the Paris Commune, April 1871; the blurred figures are a result of the long exposure times required by early cameras.

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Twins Celebrating Their 35th Birthday in 1967, Each Holding Their Newborn Daughters

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Mass graves at the edge of Grozny where men deposit the hundreds of unidentified bodies found in the city following the Russian invasion and bombardments of December and January 1994-1995.

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Two of the Wealthiest Merchants in 19th-Century Persia, Executed After Refusing to Renounce Their Faith. circa 1875

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An ACT up protester holding a sign depicting Donald Trump as Freddie Krueger, 1989

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'The Hyphenated American' (USA, 1899)

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My great grandmother in 1998 wearing her traditional Navajo clothing, with me sitting on her lap

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Christmas, 1980s

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1912 photograph of “Jerome” of Sandy Cove, a mysterious man who washed ashore in Nova Scotia in 1863, both legs amputated, and whose identity and origins were never discovered.

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