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Jonkerz Turn of the Century History Museum[edit]

How the Other Half Lives, photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s
Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War, 1899-1902
Bonnie and Clyde, well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, c. 1932-1934
The last known thylacine photographed at Beaumaris Zoo in 1933
Richard Loeb (left) and Nathan Leopold (right), two wealthy University of Chicago law students who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 in Chicago
Herschel Grynszpan just after his arrest on 7 November 1938
Leon Czolgosz, assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, 1901
Samurais in armor, Japan, 1880-1890
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) flying over southern Manhattan Island, New York City (USA), 1930
Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies, 1885
Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 1914
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left), Nicola Sacco (right). After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927. Since their deaths, critical opinion has overwhelmingly felt that the two men were convicted largely on their anarchist political beliefs and unjustly executed.
San Francisco lies in ruins on May 28, 1906, about six weeks after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire