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Calling home from the dorms in the 1980s

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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1865 (1986x3290)

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Anthony Bourdain when he was 24 years old in 1980

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21-years old Yves Saint Laurent at Christian Dior's funeral, 1957 (1440×1800)

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Kids posing with largest log cabin. It was built in 1905 and later burned down In 1964

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Poster from February 2021 protests in Myanmar (Burma) depicting Shrek punching an army general

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Photo of postwar deportations of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia. They wear an “N” on their clothes that stands for “Němec,” which means German. (January 1946)(1280x1206)

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My memaw. 1940s. She was a tough one but sweet at the same time. Out lived 4 husbands. Passed away at an early age of 68 from diabetes. Miss her!

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A homeless man in the Warsaw Ghetto, German occupied Poland, 1941 (702x1050)

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Richard Nixon’s last lunch as president: pineapple, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk. That evening, he announced his intent to resign on national television. August 8, 1974

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Courtney Cox in her high school yearbook photo in 1982

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People keep saying the myth that photo exposure was like minutes or 30s by the 1900s. Here a photo of 2 girl jumping rope were you can see them mid jump with the rope still captured, Glass negative, 1900.

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