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My Nan and Pop on their wedding day, 1958
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Ota Benga, a Congolese Mbuti pygmy, exhibited in the monkey cage at the Bronx Zoo. He was forced to smile and show his sharpened teeth to thousands of visitors, 1906.
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A mugshot of 11-year-old gangster Robert Sandifer. It is the only known photo of Sandifer, who killed a 14-year-old schoolgirl while shooting at rival gangsters, prior to his own murder by two teenage fellow gangsters. His short and violent life got national attention (Chicago, 1994) .
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Young lady posing for her double shot, Junction city, Kansas, 1917. glass negative
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Coffins of Communards following the suppression of the Paris Commune, 1871.
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January 31, 1990: The first McDonald's in the USSR opened in Moscow. Its opening was a real sensation: to get in, you had to wait in line for several hours.
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A man on the beach is fined for indecent clothing, Heemskerk, Netherlands, 1931
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