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Assembling Sears and Roebuck catalogs in 1942.

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A member of the U.S. invasion force aims a .45 at the head of a Panamanian suspected of being a member of Manuel Noriega's defense forces who had shed his uniform and dressed in civilian clothing to escape detection, 1989.

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Iconic 1936 photograph of Lampião, Brazil’s greatest and most notorious outlaw.

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An Inuit woman in Alaska, 1915.

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Iranian students celebrating the victory of the Islamic Revolution, holding a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, February 1979

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Annette Kellerman promoting a woman’s right to wear a fitted, one-piece bathing suit in 1907. She was later arrested for indecency.

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This your first reelection campaign, kid? (Tim Hamilton, 2019)

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A ‘Schienenzeppelin' (rail zeppelin) alongside a steam train - at a railway station in Berlin, Germany, c. 1931.

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Dating on the fire escape, 1946.

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Jordan Belfort’s, aka the “Wolf of Wall Street”, mugshot after being taking to FBI New York on charges of money laundering and securities fraud, September 1998.

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A victim, tied in a tortuous position to the side of a truck, is about to be dragged to his death by Fascists during the Yekatit 12 massacre in Italian East-Africa (19 February 1937)

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Children sleep on the fire escape in NYC to avoid summer heat. Early 1900s.

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