Sharp glass negative of a chubby little baby girl at peace, Virginia, circa 1900s.
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Veteran of the American Revolutionary War, Daniel Waldo, photographed at the age of 101 in 1864.
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A group of kids had arranged to care and feed the dog after the owner had died, England 1936.
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Teenage girls pulling taffy at a party as others watch. September 1953. Color transparency by Charlotte Brooks
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Children sitting on a whites-only bench along the seafront in South Africa during apartheid (1960)
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The first photo of a member of the British Royal family,1842
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Harland Sanders (AKA Colonel Sanders of KFC fame) visiting a Columbus, Ohio-area Wendy's franchise, 1970s
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The tragic story behind the infamous 1948 "4 Children for Sale" photo. (1948) [800x1000]
Taken on August 5, 1948, in Chicago, this photo shows 24-year-old Lucille Chalifoux and her four children. Facing eviction and desperate, the family put up a real "4 Children for Sale" sign.
The tragic reality is that within two years, all four children—and the unborn baby she was carrying—were either sold or given away:
* **Rae Ann and Milton:** Sold to a farming family for just a few dollars. They were chained in a barn, forced into hard labor, and suffered horrific abuse.
* **David (the unborn baby):** Adopted by a strict but loving family, later reconnected with his siblings.
* **The Mother:** Remarried and had four more children. When her abandoned children finally found her years later, she showed absolutely no remorse.
Though often misdated to the 1929 Great Depression, this photo remains a heartbreaking symbol of extreme poverty in post-WWII America.
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Steve and Terri Irwin joking around with Magda Szubanski on the set of their film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course in 2001
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1978 article describing 13-year-old Brooke Shields as a "sultry mix of all-American virgin and wh*re"
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A farmer and his sons walk into the face of a massive dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936, struggling through blowing sand beside their weather-beaten farmhouse during the height of the Dust Bowl.
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Soviet child swinging on abandoned German artillery, Mykolaiv Oblast, 1944:
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Stevie Wonder taking a photo of Michael Jackson while visiting the Motown Museum in Detroit, Michigan, 1998
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“The image shows Franca Viola, who became a symbol of women’s rights in Italy after refusing to marry the man who kidnapped and raped her, becoming the first Italian woman to publicly denounce her aggressor and reject the so-called "rehabilitating marriage" (1966)
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A happy soldier carrying candy rations for his fellow troops in 1944.
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