George Moore aka The Living Skeleton and Fred Howe aka The Fatman, Two Circus Performers from 1890s

A woman is humiliated for having had personal relations with the Germans. French civilians shave her head as punishment. August 29, 1944

Female models wearing swimsuits and Ortho Ammonium Sulfate bags, posed next to bagging machines, 1956

The frozen corpse of a German soldier killed during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944

Emperor of Japan Hirohito and Empress Nagako with their children and grandchildren – 1970s

The child of a KKK member during a demonstration, taken by Todd Robertson, 1992

20,000 Americans attend a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 20, 1939

President John F. Kennedy and Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny in bubble-top limousine, 22nd of May 1962.

Barbara Ledermann, a childhood friend of Anne Frank, outside a cinema showing the film “The Diary of Anne Frank.” She stood debating whether to go in. Finally she decided not to. “I’ve seen too much human suffering already,” she said. 1959

An engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958

Crowds gathered to witness the hanging of Henry Campbell (he is standing in the center wearing a dark suit) in Lawrenceville, Georgia, May 8, 1908. He was tried and convicted of murdering Ella Hudson and her daughter.

Easter Sunday service. USS Duane. 1944

Adolf Hitler with a group of brown shirts in Berlin, 1933

A few weeks after the outbreak of the Civil War, United States union soldiers begin guarding Washington D.C. from rebel attacks as construction of the Capitol Building continues on around them, May 1861

Exhausted French troops rest inside Fort Vaux during the Battle of Verdun 1916

Dazed survivors huddle together in the street ten minutes after the atomic bomb was dropped on their city, Hiroshima. August 6, 1945.

Lincoln’s deathbed at Petersen House, taken shortly after the President’s body was removed, April 1865

Stalin in the Kremlin after a meeting about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union at the start of Operation Barbarossa. The photographer secretly defied orders to destroy it as it was deemed not to show Stalin in a positive light – June 22nd 1941