"U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body" - c.1860
"General Sherman is seen posing with his Generals. General Francis P. Blair (far right) was added to the original photograph" - c.1865
"A commissar was removed from the original photograph after falling out of favor with Stalin" - c.1930
"Mao Tse-tung (right) had Po Ku (left) removed from the original photograph, after Po Ku fell out of favor with Mao" - c.1936
"Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels (second from the right) removed from the original photograph" - c.1937
"Queen Elizabeth and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in Banff, Alberta. King George VI was removed from the original photograph. This photo was used on an election poster for the Prime Minister" - c.1939
"The “Gang of Four” were removed from this photograph of a memorial ceremony for Mao Tse-Tung held at Tiananmen Square" - c.1976
Source: Four and Six
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This capsule was curated by John Pollock
