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01: Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938

02: Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885

03: Elvis in the Army, 1958

04: Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956

05: Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923

06: Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916

07: Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937

08: Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924

09: Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency

10: Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901

11: 106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990

12: Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937

13: The original Ronald McDonald, 1963

14: Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961

15: Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII

16: Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944

17: Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940

18: Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961

19: Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965

20: Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940

21: Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917

22: Suntan vending machine, 1949

23: Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920′s

24: Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960

25: Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964

26: Lifeguard on the coast, 1920′s

27: Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890

28: Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953

29: Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

30: Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

31: Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

32: Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage

33: The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927

34: Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963

35: Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930

36: A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961

37: Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929

38: Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893

39: A beautiful suicide – 23 year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947

40: First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967