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Two brothers, seated for a family photo in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. Shortly after this photo, the two boys were deported and did not survive the Holocaust (1944)
Londoners go about daily life in Fleet Street as smoke rises after the explosion of a German V1 flying bomb 6/30/1944
Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as ‘comfort girls’ for the troops, 1939-1945.
My uncle, Walter Jackson, served as a Private First Class in the 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He gave his life during the Korean War and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. He is memorialized outside the courthouse in Gainesville, Florida.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study participants with a nurse, Alabama 1932, for 40 years the US government secretly withheld Syphilis treatment from 399 Black men to study the disease’s natural progression (600 × 440 pixels)
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  • Two peasants from the region around Rome. A daguerreotype by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842.
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  • Portrait of a young grumpy girl from the 1850s.
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  • My great-great grandmother (child) great 3x grandmother and great 4x grandmother. Photo taken circa 1897.
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  • Barbarism vs Civlization, anti-colonial French cartoon, 1899
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  • Election poster from US, 1867
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  • 1860’s photo of Russian general Grigory Von Zass, notorious for his brutal role in the still officially denied “Circassian genocide,” that killed from 1-1.5 million people. Zass openly encouraged the murder, rape & torture of Circassian civilians & was known for collecting their body parts (342×435)
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  • One of the only known photos of Mexican general & president Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, 1853. Known in the US for his role at “the Alamo” & notorious in Mexico for coming to power 11 times & losing over half of Mexico to the US in 1848, some regard him as the worst man in Mexican history (816×1154)
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  • “An Unrestrained Demon” – Anti- electricity propaganda from 1889.
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  • My great grandfather and grandmother. This was taken some time in the 1800’s
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  • Gail Borden Condensed Milk. 1887
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  • Six sumo wrestlers, circa 1890 .
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  • My Great Great Grandfather in his WW1 uniform. He was born today in 1868.
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  • Barbarity vs Civilisation, by René Georges Hermann-Paul, 1899
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  • First photograph ever taken of the United States supreme court, 1867. Referred to as the “Chase Court” after chief justice Salmon P Chase, (middle) it presided over major reconstruction era changes in US society. The man to the far left was supreme court clerk Daniel Wesley Middleton. (1280 X 885)
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  • Anti-masturbation cartoon published in the ‘The Sexual System and its Derangements’, an 1875 book published in New York and written by one Emery C. Abbey. The cartoon contrasts the sorry state of the masturbator at ages 16 and 50 with the health & vitality of the abstainer at ages 21 and 70.
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  • Anti-semitic anti-immigrant cartoon, 1890, United States.
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  • President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, speaking to the crowds. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. November 19, 1863
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  • Lorillard’s Chewing Tobacco, 1893
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  • Election pamphlet from US, 1867
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  • Sept 21st, 1953: 72nd Convention of the American Federation of Labor
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