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In 1946 Marilyn Monroe worked as a pin-up girl and charged $10 an hour to be photographed as reference for images that were turned into paintings. This is an example of one of the more ‘safe for work’ images. (1080×960)
Soviet Politician Lavrentiy Beria with Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, USSR, 1930s (767×1000)
Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting ‘Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!’ before being overtaken by the blast
Car Sharing is a ‘Must’! 1942.
Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) .

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  • 1865 portrait of Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake city & the first Governor of Utah. Young had 57 children with 56 different wives (5624×4242)
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  • My grandmother and father (late 1940s)
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  • My mom (front, right side) and her siblings in the late 60s/early 70s
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  • Two communions and a confirmation – circa 1927 – My grandfather in the middle
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  • Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928×1300)
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  • Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)
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  • My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
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  • NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
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  • A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .
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  • When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.
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  • ‘Victorian Child’ photo I found in an antique shop. I fell in love with how awkwardly perfect this photo is. I would really like to learn more, but I don’t know where to start.
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  • My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
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  • 100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
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  • Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation
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  • ‘Race mixing is communism! USA 1953’
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  • GDR Stamp, 1982, “Solidarity with the Palestinian People”
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  • I visted CPL Doss last week
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  • The NAACP in New York protesting outside the theater asking for the boycott of “The Birth of a Nation”. 1947
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  • My great-grandmother and her friend Sherry in 1969. On the back, Sherry wrote: “Brenda, always remember our fun times together, from one crazy thing to another.”
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  • Portrait of Kaw-u-tz, a Caddo Native American, 1906.
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