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  16th October, 1946. Hermann Goering lay dead after committing suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill he smuggled into his cell, 2 hours before he was due to be hung. Photo by Edward F. McLaughlin.

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  Dukakis in search of a running mate (1988)

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  In the 1920s-30s Alfred Cheney Johnston was hired by theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld to photograph the showgirls from his theatre (otherwise known as the Ziegfeld Follies) – the results are absolutely exquisite and this one example. (640×800)

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  ‘Brothers, We Are United,’ Russian political cartoon, 2014.

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  My grandpa in his 20s. My grandma told me he was the most handsome man she has ever met.

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  Three Generations || An Australian-Aboriginal family whose photograph was used in a project by the Australian government to show how Aboriginal people can be assimilated into white Australian society by ‘breeding out the colour’, 1947.

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  This is Katherine McHale Slaughterback, otherwise known as Rattlesnake Kate. She fought off 140 rattlesnakes in 1925 using just three bullets and a “No Hunting” sign. (1024×601)

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  Tell Her You Love Her, That’s All She Need to Know! 1943.

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  Irish mother posing with her 7 children, circa 1900. Crisp glass negative

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  The USN’s Constellation-class frigate – now reportedly reduced to just two ships, with the other planned frigates being axed.

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  FBI agent delivering $1,000,000 to a plane hijacker, in his underwear, 1972

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  2022 pro-choice American political cartoon accusing opponents of abortion of not caring about children after birth.

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  Farmers hang nooses at a foreclosure auction to intimidate outside bidders. Michigan, 1936. (891×599)

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  The first ever photograph of a woman taken in 1839, of Dorothy Catherine Draper. Her daguerreotype portrait is the only surviving contemporary photograph of someone wearing the 1830s poke bonnet, a pre Victorian hat

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  2012 Mitt Romney US presidential campaign billboard featuring the United States national debt and calling for spending cuts.

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  Greta Rideout arrives in court to testify against her husband, whom she has accused of rape, at his trial. The trial made national headlines since John Rideout was the first man in U.S. history to be charged with raping his wife while they were living together (Oregon, 1978) .

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  Hungarian anti-Trianon cartoon (1920s)

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  HMS Prince of Wales has embarked 24 British F-35Bs and declared Full Operating Capability for the UK Carrier Strike Group

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  (2937 x 2210) The Dutch destroyer HNLMS Kortenaer (1927) lays a smoke screen.

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  Irish family posing for their portrait (walsh family), glass negative., 21 of May 1919.

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