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The EssayThe Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed EverythingEpisodes

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  1. The Tichborne Claimant

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

  2. The Broom Cottages

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

  3. The Dogon

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

  4. The Nebula in Orion

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

  5. Anna Bertha's Hand

    1/5Kelley Wilder discusses how the 1896 x-ray photograph of a hand changed medicine.