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Boy with a toy pistol at a campaign rally for JFK. West Virginia, 1960.

Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton, shows off her shoulders in Muscle Beach California, 1940s.

2 friends hang around in one their rooms, there is a huge Paul Newman poster over the bed head, so circa 1960s.

Beechnut Chewing Gum girl making a sale, Harlem, 1940s

Ming resided with his owner, Antoine Yates, in a room within Yates' five-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of a public housing complex in Harlem. Several other normal and exotic pets were found in the apartment, including an alligator named Al in another bedroom. Authorities became aware of Ming's existence when Yates visited the emergency …

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Jimmie Nicol in an Australian airport waiting for his plane home to England, 1964. Jimmie was plucked from obscurity to sit in for Ringo Starr on the Beatles’ 1964 tour. He was with them for a week at the height of Beatlemania and then Jimmie was sent back to his old life.

Three pupils of the Carlisle Boarding School photographed upon their entry in 1883 and again, three years later. The school worked under the motto “kill the Indian in him and save the man,” – 100,000 Native American children were taken from their homes and forced into these institutions.

Jack Wilson, the most obese man in the world plays checkers against a skinny man, 1932.

Anton Szandor LaVey was an American author, musician, and the founder of LaVeyan Satanism. He established the Church of Satan and is credited with creating the religion of Satanism. LaVey wrote several influential works, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil's Notebook, and Satan Speaks! Here’s an article about him: …

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