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Young lady has fun with her photo sesion. Glass negative (1 plate 4 shots), circa 1900s.

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Wernher von Braun, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965.

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Susan Smith, 23, and her husband talk to the press after the disappearances of their two sons. She drove her car into a lake and left the boys there to drown. During the interview, Smith claimed that a phantom black male carjacker had kidnapped her sons (South Carolina, 1994) .

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Mother holding her baby boy while her daughter stands besides her, circa 1900s. Glass negative

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“Four Freedoms”, a series of paintings by Norman Rockwell about FDR’s goals articulated in the 1941 State of the Union meant to describe the freedoms the Allies fought for in WW2, c. 1943

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My sister walking down the aisle with George Clooney at my Aunt and Uncles wedding, 1968?

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"We DO hate" George Lincoln Rockwell's hate bus. Virginia, USA, 1961.

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My mom on her wedding day June 10th, 1972

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Prussian nobleman's son Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 7, sits in a chair at his family's estate (German Empire, 1907) .

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A victim recovered after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912.

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My daughters Grandmother and Great Grandmother Jan. 1943

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Future WWII hero & French president Charles De Gaulle with his daughter Anne in the 1930's. Anne was born with down syndrome but was never institutionalized, as was common at the time, & lived with her family until the end of her life. She died of pneumonia in 1948 at the age of 20 (1310x900)

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