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Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR
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A young Chinese woman from one of the Imperial Japanese Army's "comfort battalions" is interviewed by a British Royal Air Force officer in Rangoon after being liberated in August 1945
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Worker and supervisor at a car factory, Moścow, Soviet Union, 1954. Photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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"That's the dirty bastard that killed my brother" - An injured Nick Kuesis immediately recognizes and points to James Morelli, who killed his brother and shot him in the neck. Morelli and two other men were implicated in five shootings, three of which were fatal, Chicago, 1947
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Piles of hunted bison bones waiting to be shipped east by rail to be used for fertilizer, gunpowder, and in the sugar refining process. Alberta, Canada, c. 1880s.
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Albert Einstein giving a talk at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. 1946
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Schoolchildren performing the Bellamy salute while reciting the pledge of allegiance, 1941
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Polish border guard and his horse drink from the stream in Bieszczady Mountains while on patrol. Polish Border Guard still uses horses to traverse difficult mountainous or swampy terrain. This photo was used for recruitment purposes. Poland, 1980.
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