Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977) - History Education Network

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My mother in 1943, age 17. Passed last month 9 days short of 99.

Kodachrome photo of young ladies posing with a baby, South Carolina 1956.

Picture of “Congolese men holding cut-off hands” captured by Alice Seeley Harris in Baringa, May 1904.

My mom and her doll – 1937. Fortunately, she was much more loving to me. She grew up to manage an opera company and play the piano for a symphony. But she left her doll in the dirt at two years of age, and she looks quite pleased with herself.

Nsala of Wala in Congo looks at the severed hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter after failing to reach the Belgian colonisers Rubber quota 1904 (800×554)

Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977)

Categories: 1900s

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