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Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Confederate soldier

Hanging Lincoln Conspirators

Bombing of the Stock Exchange on Wall Stree

Petersburg, Virginia (vicinity). Hange body of William Johnson, a Negro Soldier

Execution in Washington DC

Wall Street Bombing 1920

Dead in streets, Mexico City

Reviving mine victims

A Starving Soldier who was a Prisoner in the Civil War

Monroe Street Fire, New York City

Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Dead German Between Villeroy & Neufmontiers

Galveston Hurricane 1900

Wall Street Bombing

Corner of battlefield, Haelen

Wounded of World War I

Dead coal miner under rock after cave-in in tunnel

1920 Attack on Wall Street

New York City Firefighters Removing Dead

Civil War Soldier Killed in Battle

Hanging Black Soldier

Dead of Gettysburg

Cold Harbor, Virginia (vicinity). Collecting remains of dead on the battlefield

Starving Prisoner in Civil War

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