Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933 in Peru) gave birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days and is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.

Brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of 5 years because of increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in the seventh month of pregnancy.

Her son weighed 2.7 kg (6 lb) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Lina was his sister, but found out at the age of ten that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.

There are two published photographs documenting the case. The first one was taken around the beginning of April, 1939, when Medina was seven and a half months into pregnancy. Taken from Medina’s left side, it shows her standing naked in front of an inconclusive backdrop . This is the only published photograph of Lina taken during her pregnancy. The other photograph is of far greater clarity and was taken a year later in Lima when Gerardo was eleven months old.

Photographer: Edmundo Escomel, a physician-researcher
Source: wikipedia.org

“The Soul of a Horse (Mare With Foal)” was a 1963 photo taken by the German photojournalist, Peter Thomann which won countless praise all over the world and many awards. In the mid-1970s “The Kentucky Horse Park” near Lexington opened its doors to the public, using a logo based on the photograph. The icon of the dark colored mare and a light colored foal in mid-run eventually found its way to the Kentucky’s license plates as well.

In the late 1990s the photographer of the now famous image sued, causing the image to be removed from the license plate and replaced with another. The horse park made an agreement with Thomann and kept their logo with his permission.

Photographer: Peter Thomann
Source: wikipedia

Black and white photo by H Roger-Viollet of a train accident at the Montparnasse station in Paris on 22 October, 1895 when engine 120-721 failed to stop at the platform, went through a first-floor window and crashed down onto the street.

Photographer: H Roger-Viollet
Source: easyart.com