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This Is the Hair of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China (1922)

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Smiling couple posing for their photo, 1974.

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In 1935, Hessy Levinsons Taft was featured by the Nazis in various magazines and pamphlets as the ideal Aryan baby. She was Jewish, and her family fled Nazi Germany. She died this week in California at the age of 91 .

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"Politically Incorrect" Far-Right Painting by Jon McNaughton, 2022

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Grandfather 1973

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Sanatorium for lung diseases in Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland, 1970s. Photo by Chris Niedenthal.

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My Aunt Donna was such a vibe.

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Sharecropper mother teaching her children numbers and letters in a make-do classroom she added to their Transylvania, Louisiana home, 1939. (960x776)

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A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan, circa 1870s.

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Me and my grandfather on Christmas morning, 1981.

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American anti-masturbation cartoon (1875) comparing the decay of the 'masturbator' with the vitality of the 'abstainer'.

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Moses Hardy, the last African American WW1 veteran who was the son of ex-slaves. He survived a mustard gas attack in France, being awarded the Victory Medal by the Mississippi National Guard and the French Legion d'honneur (The most prestigious national order of merit) Nov. 4 2005 (394x284)

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