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Denunciations of Vlad III (as in this 1488 pamphlet) tended to stem from the voivode’s detractors and political enemies—either German sources or the court of Matthias I, king of Hungary.

Photographed in the 1880s at the Persian royal necropolis of Naqsh-e Rostam, Jane Dieulafoy stands in front of two fire altars from the Zoroastrian Sassanian period.

Customers gather outside a Lumière theater in France, 1897, as cinema was becoming a part of everyday French life.

Scotland Yard took this posthumous photography of Elizabeth Stride. The large cameras used at that time were unable to point downward, so bodies were held up against a wall in order to take the picture.