At the turn of the 20th century, a young doctor named Magnus Hirschfeld encountered a distressed soldier seeking refuge at his practice...

This photo series shows a model in a studio re-enacting the five stages of inebriation. The shoot, which coincided with the Drunkard Punishment Bill of 1886 in NSW, was possibly commissioned by a local temperance group for education purposes. The photographer Charles Pickering took the photographs between 1863 and 1868, when society clearly felt it had a problem with alcoholism. It appears, things have not changed that much since the mid-19th century. Stage 1: You’ve had a

The photograph of Ruth Snyder's execution in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison on January 12, 1928, remains one of the most infamous...