A family in rue du Pot-de-Fer, Paris, four days before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Original color Autochrome by Albert Kahn, June 24, 1914 [1600×1186]

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The first cellphone picture. Philippe Kahn took this photo of his newborn daughter using a digital camera connected to his flip-top cell phone, synched by a few lines of code he’d written on his laptop in the hospital. 1997 (1600×1200)

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This is the first photograph of Earth ever taken from space. It was captured from a rocket 105 km above the ground. 1946 (1440×1138)

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Diana Bryant, 19, and her goddaughter Tiare Jones, 2, fall from a fire escape that collapsed as they left a burning building. Bryant died from the fall, her body cushioning the blow for Jones, who survived. July 22, 1975 (1166×1600)

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Dockworker in Belfast in 1955 (Photo: Bert Hardy) [990×1485]

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First march to legalize abortion in Argentina, 1984 (748 x 590)

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