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Queen Victora on her deathbed. Late Janurary 1901.

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Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer.

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U.S. Navy airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) flying over the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. September 22, 1923

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1968 portrait of Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar during the final year of his rule. Despite his relative obscurity compared to other European authoritarian leaders who rose to power in the 1930's, Salazar was one of the longest-serving dictators of 20th-century Europe. (901 X 1200)

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Helen Keller teaching a girl sign language. Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer. In 1904 she became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree ( 1907)

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Members of the Japanese "Marxist Youth League" in a protest, 1970s.

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PHOTO-COLORED. Bellevue Hospital circa 1896 New York 2400x2031

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A messenger dog leaps over a German trench during World War One, 1915

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Al Ahmadi oil field, Kuwait, 1991. Photo by Steve McCurry.

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Vietnam founder and former leader, Hồ Chí Minh, meets North Korea's founder and former leader, Kim Il-Sung. February, 1957, Hanoi, North Vietnam.

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Chained indigenous "workers" of Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Rubber Co., photographed by Roger Casement and published in his 1913 report.

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A group of hippies recovering bags of marijuana from the frozen Lower Merced Pass Lake in Yosemite National Park, which fell from a crashed smuggler's plane. January 1977.

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