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An Undercover Police Officer apprehends a mugger on the New York Subway, 1985. Photo taken by Bruce Davidson.

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Saddam Hussein Posing for a Photo with Western Hostages in Kuwait 1990

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The last photo of Howard Hughes. The photo was taken in 1961, 15 years before his death and there are no known later photos, because the distinguished engineer, pilot and millionaire fell into madness and disappeared from public life.

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Man standing on a stone elephant at the Ming Imperial Tombs. China, 1910

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Polish child expelled and separated from parents by Nazis during Zamość Aktion, set in camp in Lublin, 1943 (identity unknown)

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Afrika Korps officer with a Chameleon. Libya, circa 1941-1943

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Photographers and their equipment prior to the nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, 1946.

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A then 122 year old Jeanne Calment pressing the key of a PC keyboard, France, 1997 .

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Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister, under house arrest after CIA overthrown his democratic government, Iran, 1965

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The moment a Soviet soldier is shot and killed in battle. The Kerch Peninsula, May 1942.

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The Shah of Iran, Queen Farah, and Walt Disney ride the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland, April 1962

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Leaving church sometime around 1890-1900, unknown location in S.E. Ohio

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