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The Tichborne Claimant
5/5 Exploring how an 1866 photograph of a butcher taken in Australia changed British law.

The Broom Cottages
4/5 Elizabeth Edwards on W Jerome Harrison's photo of the Broom cottages in Warwickshire.

The Dogon
3/5 Jeanne Haffner discusses how aerial photography changed the spaces we live in.

The Nebula in Orion
2/5 Omar Nasim discusses the very first pictures of a nebula, taken by Henry Draper in 1880.

Anna Bertha's Hand
1/5 Kelley Wilder discusses how the 1896 x-ray photograph of a hand changed medicine.