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  Thérèse of Lisieux dressed up as Joan of Arc. The only photograph of a canonized Saint cosplaying as another Saint. (c. 1897)

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  Presumably one of the first photographs of intersex genitalia. Photograph by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar), 1860.

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  «The Third of May 1808 (Execution of the Defenders of Madrid)», Spain, 1814.

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  Spanish Egyptologist Eduardo Toda y Güell, who discovered and opened the intact tomb of Sennedjem standing next to the ancient Egyptian mummies in the Bulak Museum. Filmed in 1885.

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  Mother & Son, 1885

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  NO!! I don’t Drink Coffee. Postum Food Coffee, 1899.

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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 and vitality of the abstainer at ages 21 and 70.

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  The ruins of a Russian post used to defend Sevastopol during the Crimean War. Circa 1854-1856.

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  Steeple of Christ Church Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand under repair following earthquake damage – 1891.

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  Barricades on the Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, “Before the Attack” – 25th June 1848.

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  Xi Jinping, aged 9, with his younger brother and their father in 1962. .

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  London sanitation engineers overseeing new sewer construction following the Great Stink of 1858

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  Roguish gents, circa 1850s.

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  Mormon Polygamists jailed at Utah Penitentiary. Circa 1889

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  One of the oldest known photographs of Red Square. Moscow, 1856.

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  My 5th great grandfather, born in 1771 in the Colony of Virginia. This was taken in the 1840s or 1850s in Tennessee. His 2x great grandfather arrived in the colony in 1653.

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  John Adams, a shoemaker from New England who was born in 1745, making him the earliest born person to be photographed whose age has been verified, 1845

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  Spanish cavalry in Puerto Rico. Spanish-American war, 1898

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  “You Must Make Your Choice.” 1872 US, pro-Grant election illustration

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  2nd president of the United States John Adams fighting a giant snake, from a Japanese book on the revolutionary war, 1861

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