June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee
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Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh's mother Princess Alice of Battenberg with her uncle Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, possibly taken in 1908
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A man holding a lobster, Colombo, Ceylon, ca. 1887
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The wreckage of the experimental Bell X-2 jet after a crash that killed pilot Milburn Apt, east of Edwards Air Force Base, California, September 27, 1956
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12th SS “Hitlerjugend”, probably 26th Panzer-regiment soldier taken prisoner by 3CID “Royal Winnipeg Rifles”, mid June 1944
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Ella Harper - 5 Jan 1870-19 Dec 1921 - Known professionally as Camel Girl, born with a rare orthopedic condition, congenital genu recurvatum causing her knees to bend backwards. In 1886 she starred in W. H. Harris’s Nickel Plate Circus, appearing in newspapers wherever the circus visited
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Advertisement for "Indian Motorcycle and Tri-cars" showing 3-wheeled motor bicycle (circa 1906)
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[colorized] Chief Standing Elk, Running Hog, and Little Wolf talk to Colonel Oelrichs & an Interpreter, July 4th 1887 (orig. photo by John C.H. Grabill, colorization by John Guntzelman)
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Serra pelada PA, Brazilian gold rush, circa 1980
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Re-educating wounded. Blind French soldiers learning to make baskets, World War I
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