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After I was born, dad took a snapshot of my mom. 1953
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Aboriginal prisoners in neck chains guarded by a police officer, Western Australia, 1901.
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Meiko Kaji, star of 'Lady Snowblood', inspiration for Tarantino's 'Kill Bill', in the Tokyo subway in the 1970s
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1945 Nuremberg Trials, Nazi officials, including Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess, were seen laughing, famously captured in photos often captioned as a reaction to translation mistakes or witness testimony
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Out of the 750,000 who fought for the Confedaracy in the Civil War, these were the last 3 alive in 1951, together.
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Ota Benga, a Congolese Mbuti pygmy, exhibited in the monkey cage at the Bronx Zoo. He was forced to smile and show his sharpened teeth to thousands of visitors, 1906.
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A mugshot of 11-year-old gangster Robert Sandifer. It is the only known photo of Sandifer, who killed a 14-year-old schoolgirl while shooting at rival gangsters, prior to his own murder by two teenage fellow gangsters. His short and violent life got national attention (Chicago, 1994) .
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Young lady posing for her double shot, Junction city, Kansas, 1917. glass negative
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Coffins of Communards following the suppression of the Paris Commune, 1871.
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