History’s Rarest Images: 50 Photos That Will Stop You In Your Tracks

Wax Statues or Real People?

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This photo seems truly shocking.While originally believed to be a photograph of the dead during the Victorian era, it is actually an image of melted wax sculptures after a fire at the local museum. Many people were so disturbed when the photograph was first run in a paper that they wrote letters expressing their contempt for the paper for printing such an image.



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