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Group of high schoolers walk to prom (or similar formal event) with their dates, Brenham, Texas, May of 1962.

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Racial education class at a school for German girls, 1943

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Child Mill Worker maimed in accident 1912

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A Dayak man gnaws on the severed leg of a killed Madurese settler, near Singkawang, Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. March, 1999.

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Swedish Sámi Family in front of their traditional dwelling in Skansen. 29th August 1910

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Family is surprise while they carve a turkey in the kitchen, December of 1959. Kodachrome shot.

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Jerzy Andziak was a Holocaust survivor and a convicted murderer. He was 14 when he became a slave laborer in 1943, 16 when he was freed in 1945, 20 when he killed a man in a botched burglary in 1948, and 21 when he was executed in 1949. In a plea for clemency, he wrote about what he saw .

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My mother graduating from nursing school in 1979. She just retired after 47 years as a nurse.

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The Lincoln Memorial in 1920.

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In 1921, Ada Blackjack joined an Arctic expedition team consisting of four men. She spent two years surviving alone on Wrangel Island and was the only member of the team to make it back alive.(320x213)

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Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish explorer, was photographed in 1912 after surviving two and a half years stranded in Greenland with fellow explorer Iver Iversen. They endured extreme isolation, hunger, and hallucinations while awaiting rescue.

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Adolf Hitler blowing his nose backstage at a Nazi rally, 1935. (1124x736)

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