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Katharine Hepburn skateboarding, c. 1960s, Beverly Hills. Photo by her nephew Jack Grant.

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Juvenile convicts at work in the fields in chain gang. Southern jails made money leasing convicts for labor in the Jim Crow South. Circa. 1903

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Archaeologists dine in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923

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Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera.

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A Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 .

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Community barber shop in Kern County, California, 1936. (761×1225)

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The German Paris Gun, also known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Gun, was the largest gun of World War I. In 1918 the Paris Gun shelled Paris from 120 km (75 mi) away.

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Charles Bronson in 2001. The man dubbed "the most violent prisoner in Britain"

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A group of Papuans in Hollandia (now Jayapura) celebrates the UN rejection of Indonesia's claims to Dutch New Guinea. As a sign of loyalty, I carry a portrait of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. January 15, 1955.

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A family of sharecroppers is shown outside of their one room cabin style home, Georgia, 1930. (830×1116)

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Black smoke rises from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in the aftermath of a fire that occurred while she was underway conducting air operations near Hawaii on 14 January 1969. 28 sailors were killed, 343 wounded, and 15 aircraft destroyed

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A menace to Society. The Padgett family. The entire family including the mother totally illiterate. No one could read or write. North Carolina, 1914. (765×570)

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Katharine Hepburn skateboarding, c. 1960s, Beverly Hills. Photo by her nephew Jack Grant.

Juvenile convicts at work in the fields in chain gang. Southern jails made money leasing convicts for labor in the Jim Crow South. Circa. 1903

Archaeologists dine in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923

Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera.

A Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 .

Community barber shop in Kern County, California, 1936. (761×1225)

The German Paris Gun, also known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Gun, was the largest gun of World War I. In 1918 the Paris Gun shelled Paris from 120 km (75 mi) away.

Charles Bronson in 2001. The man dubbed "the most violent prisoner in Britain"

A group of Papuans in Hollandia (now Jayapura) celebrates the UN rejection of Indonesia's claims to Dutch New Guinea. As a sign of loyalty, I carry a portrait of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. January 15, 1955.

A family of sharecroppers is shown outside of their one room cabin style home, Georgia, 1930. (830×1116)

Black smoke rises from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in the aftermath of a fire that occurred while she was underway conducting air operations near Hawaii on 14 January 1969. 28 sailors were killed, 343 wounded, and 15 aircraft destroyed

A menace to Society. The Padgett family. The entire family including the mother totally illiterate. No one could read or write. North Carolina, 1914. (765×570)