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A radiologist checks a miner's stomach for swallowed diamonds, Kimberley, South Africa, 1954
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Site of the execution of the Russian imperial family at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, photographed in 1919, one year after the murders.
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Hotel owner pouring acid into swimming pool while black patrons swim, St. Augustine, Florida 1964
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"Jesus did not choose non white apostles" Protest against Harold Perry, first openly African- American Catholic bishop 1966
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My dad looking dapper for school picture day. (late 1950s) He would have been 83-years-old today.
Posted 12 days ago
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1179 captured participants in the Bay of Pigs Invasion stand trial for treason. Among those captured were 100 plantation owners, 67 landlords of apartment houses, 35 factory owners, 112 businessmen, 179 lived off unearned income, and 194 ex-soldiers of Batista (Cuba, 1962) .
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Hitler inspects the Schwerer Gustav gun weighing more than 1,350 tons, 1941
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Man laughs as he is chased by a lady with a stick to jam his pennyfarthing, 1900. Glass negative shot with some blurr.
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