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Parents pose with their daughter on her prom dress, November of 1958. Kodachrome shot.
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In November 1961, the promising young ethnographer Michael Rockefeller vanished along the southern coast of New Guinea.
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Veterans of Gallipoli, Australian Leonard Hall and Turkish Adil Şahin 75 years later they are where they fought, 1990
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Sleeping on the fire escape to stay cool on a hot summer night New York, 1948
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The first ever confirmed photo of a Nazi Gas Van. Einsatzgruppen 7a, pictured in this photo, participated in the murders of approximately 134k Belarusian Jews. This vehicle was one of their tools. ~1941
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Larry Davis surrenders following a 17-day manhunt after he shot six NYPD officers raiding his sister's apartment. His defense team, led by William Kunstler, contended that the cops were corrupt and the raid was a pretense to murder Davis for knowing about their crimes, The Bronx, 1986 .
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A German student taking part in a racial education class, Nazi Germany, 1943 (1600x1594)
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Gourgen Yanikian, a 77-year-old Armenian genocide survivor who lost 26 family members, is arrested after killing two Turkish consuls, both whom were too young to have been involved. Yanikian's lawyers would portray him as a broken man who'd lost touch with reality, California, 1973 .
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'Protect yourself from this menace' — Anti-KKK poster issued by the Industrial Workers of the World, ca. 1921. 'The Ku-Klux-Klan is anti-Jew, anti-negro, anti-Catholic, anti-foreigner AND anti-labor. Organize industrially. Line up! Join the I.W.W.'
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