A young Māori woman with traditional tattoos (moko) on the lips and chin (c. 1860–1879)

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Portrait of Mooragootch, a Shoshone warrior. Photographed between 1884-85

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Mugshots of Victorian Era Child Criminals, 1870s

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These 1926 portraits of Indians taken by German anthropologist Egon von Eickstedt during his travels which took him through India, Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka), and Burma

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Since people are posting pictures of their grandparents, here's my grandmother in 1908.

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Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 captured by photographer Augustus Frederick Sherman

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Canada's First Nations people - 1910

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Canada's First Nations people - 1910

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Men's hairstyles in pre-colonial Africa

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The oldest Indian, John Smith, managed to live in three centuries at once, being born in the 18th century, living throughout the 19th century and dying in the 20th century. It is alleged that he lived for about 137 years

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Men's hairstyles in pre-colonial Africa

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Native American woman wearing a valuable Elk tooth dress, possibly 1890s

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Lotta Atsye, the chief’s daughter of the Laguna Pueblo, 1904.