Serial killer John Wayne Gacy poses with First Lady Roslynn Carter. This picture would become an embarrassment for the Secret Service as the pin Gacy is wearing indicates security clearance. 1978
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Marshland in front of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Potomac River, in 1917. Work is underway to turn this site into the 2,000-foot-long reflecting pool.
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Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII
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Arthritis-ridden Renoir painting flowers at his garden, circa 1910’s
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Vietnam War 1965
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Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917
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Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932
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Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint August 3 1936
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Salvador Dalí on a carriage drawn by his goat, 1953.
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Newly liberated inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp chase down and beat a former kapo (a prisoner assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor in the camp). Kapos were picked for their brutality towards fellow prisoners and received additional privileges, 16 April 1945.
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Typical grocery store queue in Vilnius (the capital of current Lithuania), 1990, USSR consumer goods shortage
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Disneyland’s “Rocket to the Moon”, 1967
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Citizen Kane premiere, 1941
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Ty Cobb “sliding” into home – 1920
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Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson & wife, 1910s
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German Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) tank neatly shot through the barrel – Belarus 1941
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The identification card of Anny Horowitz, a French Jewish girl murdered in Auschwitz, 1940
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Ann-Margret on a Triumph, 1960s.
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This is nowhere near a Go-Pro, 1960.
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Female air traffic controller.
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Frank Sinatra being told by the President to stop dancing with the First Lady, Nancy Reagan.
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A Texas cowboy playing with his kittens. 1949.
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Grace Kelly, 1949.
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Baseball player Satchel Paige, Harlem, 1941.
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Rita Hayworth being dressed in a 30 pound, $250,000.00 dress made of pearls in 1940.
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The Diamond T Doodlebug in 1935.
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Paul McCartney at Ringo Starr’s wedding, 1981.
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A very unusual portrait of a Victorian lady, circa 1840.
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Jim Carrey at age of 19. [1981]
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Cybill Shepherd, 1976.
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Henry Rollins, 1983.
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Steven Spielberg and a very young Christian Bale, 1986.
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Sharon Tate, 1965.
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Nikola Tesla sitting in his Colorado Springs lab (1900s).
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Marilyn Monroe without makeup in New York, 1955.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor & Buster Keaton at the Moulin Rouge (1959).
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Perhaps the oldest known selfie that was taken in 1839
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This photo was taken in 1900 when the woman was mid-sneeze
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Young McCartney taking a mirror selfie in 1959
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Hitler practicing his speeches while standing in front of a mirror in 1925
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A mildly scary swimming mask designed for protecting the entire mouth of women from the sun. (1920)
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The original Winnie The Pooh with Christopher Robin in 1927
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On the sets of Batman in 1966
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Popular as Little Nap, the “Napoleon of the Chimpanzee World” is a circus chimp who became a renowned tourist attraction in 1915
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A mannequin on the atomic bomb testing site of Nevada; picture taken in the 1950s