Andre-Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Communards in their coffins, Paris, May 1871.
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John Filo, Mary Vecchio cries over the body of one of the Kent State University students who had just been shot by the Ohio National Guard soldiers, Kent, Ohio, 4 May 1970.
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Andre-Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Communards in their coffins, Paris, May 1871.
Source: University of Texas, Austin
Execution by firing squad, Mexico, 1916.
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Nsala of Wala sits with the hand and foot of his five-year old daughter, who was killed and allegedly cannibalized by the members of the ABIR militia, Congo Free State, May 1904.
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Alfred John Tattersall, Death portrait of High chief Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III, Vaimoso, Samoa, 1930.
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Memento Mori of the Dalton Gang, outlaws in the American Old West. Left to right: Bill Power, Bob Dalton, Grat Dalton, and Dick Broadwell, October 1892.
Source: Cramers Art Rooms of Cherryvale, Kansas
Josef Lowy, Johann Strauß auf dem Todtenbette, June 1899.
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František Krátký, Victims of the stampede at Khodynka, Moscow, Russia, 18 May 1896.
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Abbie Rowe, The body of President John. F. Kennedy lies in repose in the East Room of the White House, Washington, DC, 23 November 1963.
Source: John. F. Kennedy Library and Museum
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