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"But It's Okay Over Here?"-1971
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My mother-in-law getting a rinse in her mom’s beauty shop. Billings, MT 1954-ish.
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A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .
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A photo of Los Alamos scientists during the Trinity Test of 1945. The two scientists in the middle, Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, would both die within a year after exposure to the so called 'Demon Sphere', a sphere of plutonium involved in two separate criticality accidents.
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X-ray of Albert Fish after his (1934) arrest for the 1928 murder of 10-year-old Grace Budd, showing more than two dozen self-embedded needles in his groin and pelvis.
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A South African sentry stands guard with a smile on his face as a Malagasy girl imitates him. Taken during the Allied invasion of Madagascar. September 1942, Madagascar
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"Typhoid Mary" Mallon quarantined for life on North Brother Island, New York City, 1915
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Picture of Hanafi Mat Hassan, a infamous Malaysian murderer who raped and killed 24 year-old Noor Suzaily Mukhtar as he smiles at the victims brother. Circa 2000. 330x228
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