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Irish Priest poses with his 2 sisters, one smiles for their photo, 22 of August 19003, glass negative.

Posted 11 days ago
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A bear is still a bear (Bob Gorrell, 1989)

Posted 12 days ago
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Crime scene photo of the Heaven's Gate cult suicide (1997) showing members wearing their trademark Nike sneakers (634 × 925)

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The bodies of two young children lying together who starved to death in Bergen-belsen concentration camp, April of 1945

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Crisp glass negative of a irish mother with her children (7, 3 boys, 4 girls), Circa 1900.

Posted 12 days ago
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Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman on set of "Léon: The Professional", 1994

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Adrian Street, a Welsh professional wrestler, pictured with his father, a coal miner in 1974. Street later became known for ripping out chunks of Jimmy Savile's hair during a wrestling match after Savile had bragged about assaulting underage girls. (1227x1055)

Posted 12 days ago
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1917 US anti-metric system poster

Posted 13 days ago
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6-year-old Teddy Roosevelt watching Lincoln’s funeral procession going through Union Square, NYC, April 24 1865.

Posted 13 days ago
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A Native American Couple, c1900-1915.

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A Harvest of Death. Photograph of the dead taken in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863).

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Charles Fields, 30, is taken into custody after his recapture. While serving a life term for rape, he was allowed to carry a pistol as a prison trusty. Fields used it to escape, steal 3 trucks, murder a farmer, and rape another woman, all in the span of just 90 minutes (Arkansas, 1962) .

Posted 14 days ago