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A
mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after
an
atomic test 75 miles away, Las Vegas, 1953. |
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| Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929. |
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| The Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. |
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Children
eating their Christmas dinner during the
Great
Depression: turnips and cabbage. |
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Annette
Kellerman promoted women's right to wear a fitted
one-piece
bathing
suit, 1907. She was arrested for
indecency. |
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| The original Ronald clown of McDonald's in 1963. (Looks like Willard Scott) Would scare the hell out of kids today! |
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| Apollo I crew members rehearsing their water landing in 1966. |
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| President Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks while visiting China in 1972. |
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| Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, 1908. |
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| Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961. |
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| Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941. |
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| Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865. |
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| Frozen Niagara Falls , 1911. |
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| Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963. |
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A
penniless mother hides her face in shame after
putting
her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948. |
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| Recovering bodies after the Titanic disaster, April 1912. |
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A
most beautiful suicide - 23 year old Evelyn McHale leapt to
her
death
from an observation deck (83rd floor) of the Empire
State
Building
, May 1, 1947. She landed on a United Nations
limousine. |
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Melted
and damaged mannequins after a fire at
Madam
Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, 1930. |
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| New York City fire station, ca. 1912. |
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| Operation Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported by airplanes to America in 1975. |
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| Santa Claus in New York, ca. 1900. |
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5:00
P.M., September 3rd, 1967 Sweden changed from driving on
the
left
side to driving on the right. - This was the
result. |
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| Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty. Delivered June 17, 1885 |
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