Woman stands on a farmer’s shoulders to emphasizes the height of their corn crop, Minnesota, 1916.

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Cozy little home nestled deep in the woods.

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A cozy lake house during a mid-evening rain (photograph by Rodrigo Mila)

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Cozy Nordic living room decorated for Christmas

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Contemporary bath and shower with an amazing view of the outdoors in this home located in Portland, Oregon [900x1350]

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I could hide here with several great books for days.

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Kitchen in Neukollen, Berlin, Germany [750x937]

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The Arch of the Righteous leading to the inner vestibule of Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE (photograph by Julian John) [750x1198]

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Jeff Bridges and his dad, Lloyd Bridges, 1951.

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These are not tiny brontosauruses

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Rustic Scandinavian house with a cozy “hearth” room - a fireplace for both the kitchen and living room [640x960]

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5-year-old David Day is prepared for bed in his home in a cave in Dover's chalk cliffs in Dover, England, April 19, 1944. About 90 people were permanent residents of caves to evade German shells and bombs. David remembers no other home, having become a cave dweller at 5-months-old [750x944]

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Backyard picnic/dining area. Warm nights with good friends and great wine.

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Meryl Streep wearing the same dress in 1979 and 2009

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A rainy afternoon on a cozy English street

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Abandoned children’s shoes [750x954]

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Green onyx bathroom in Munich [749x1102]

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It’s a goddamn fish tornado

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At the bottom of this pic is FDNY’s Ladder 118 on their way to the burning Twin Towers on 9/11. Every single man on that truck died trying to rescue people that day. They were literally headed towards their own deaths when this pic was taken.

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Nurses showing a set of newly born triplets to a surprised father, New York City, 1946

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The Peacock Room in Sammezzano Castle, Tuscany, Italy (Photograph by Sam Woolfe) [1024x683]

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Robert Rallah, Elder of the Yaramun (Ringer's Soak) Aboriginal Community, The Kimberley, Western Australia [2400x3000]

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John, Jr. waits to to greet President JFK's hebrecop on his arrival at Camp David, October 12, 1963 [665x1000]

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Under the stairs wine storage design by Brandon Architects [840x626]

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Jamie Lee Curtis recreates her mom's famous Psycho shower scene

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Nasir al-Mulk Mosque located in Shiraz, Iran [1600x1119]

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Como Park Junior High - St. Paul, MN, 1958.

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I would’ve paid to see this matchup

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German immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, NY circa 1900 [600x760]

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A sailor arriving home on leave greeting his grandparents, Life Magazine, 1942.

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Fireplace crafted from columnar basalt, a volcanic rock, and positioned vertically, similar to the way they are found in their natural geologic formations. Design by True Stone Enterprises in Deming, WA [995 x 1543]

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Crusaders grave, Kilmuir cemetary on the Isle of Skye, Scotland

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An elder of the Karo tribe rests with his head on his wooden head-rest which protects his clay hairdo. Every man carries a headrest which doubles as a stool. Duss, Omo Valley, Ethiopia (photographer: John Warburton-Lee) [2048x1562]

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Drew Barrymore, It Girl of the 1990s

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This sun room. Early morning coffee. Mid-afternoon naps. Late night reading. Watching rain storms. Perfection.

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Abandoned mill in Vernonia, Oregon [750x1000]

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Angsty and indifferent. Because conformity was for losers. 1996.

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A rare photo of a Geisha after washing her hair, and before styling it in the typical Geisha way, circa 1905

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Nancy Wake: French Maquis, SOE operative, and bane of the Gestapo. She once killed an SS officer with her bare hands, and had a 5-million-franc price on her head. She was the most decorated Allied woman of WWII.

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Anti-marijuana propaganda from the 1930s

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A misty morning drinking coffee in the woods of Oregon

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Teddy Roosevelt, President of the United States, was an avid boxer and wrestler while attending Harvard, 1876

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Armenian female fighters against the Ottoman Turks, c. 1895

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Fifth Avenue, New York City, Easter, 1911

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Westlake Seniors class photo, 1947

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Woman baking bread in her kitchen , Arizona, 1960

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Mailing a letter, circa 1950s

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Mailman N. Sorenson poses with his heavy load of Christmas mail and parcels, Chicago 1929.

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Creole women by a gate, New Orleans, 1929

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January 19, 1909. Macon, Georgia. Some adolescents in Bibb Mill No. 1. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

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Welcome Home, November 24th, 1945

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An Italian child arriving at Ellis Island, early 1900s

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“A Life Divided” by Tony Luciani, who created rehabilitative portraits of his elderly mother. “Dementia tears you in half. Both are her and of her, many years apart.....but together in her mind.“ [650x800]

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Samuel L. Jackson in 1969

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MUA on Instagram. Her entire page is filled with pics like this. She has posted pics of herself “makeup-free” and looks gorgeous, but then does this to her face a majority of the time.

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The demanding life of an American mother in 1941. A photographer was sent to document the lives of one of the 30 million US housewives who did most of the washing, made beds, cooked meals and nursed almost all the babies of the nation, with little help, no wages and no other jobs.

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Hawthorne Bridge and Mount Hood by Clifford Paguio Photography

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A rainy day in the Cotswolds, England.

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Stylish cashiers at the supermarket, 1962.

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These radiation protection posters were produced at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1940s, where most of the work was done on the Manhattan Project. Before the Cold War was in full effect, these posters warned of dangers that would come to define a generation.

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U.S. Navy Recruiting Poster, 1941

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Mother and daughter taking a walk in New York City, 1970

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A 19-year-old Goldie Hawn eating a burger at a restaurant in Washington D.C. in 1964

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A grocery store worker in Seattle, 1910s.

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Now I know why I liked Nickelodeon so much as a kid.

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Jackson, Wyoming mid-century mountain home with views of Grand Teton [750x1049]

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Members of the British Women's Mechanized Transport Corps push an ambulance out of a patch of rough ground in 1940 [800x625]

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Become A Nurse, 1942.

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Afghani mother and son [720x1000]

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Female firefighters directing a hose after the Japanese attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

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Vintage wooden bathing suits from Holland [1024x683]

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Wedding in the 1950s, with grandma sneaking a peek from around the corner!

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Mother bathing baby in a bathinette, circa 1950s.

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For the first time more young Americans are dying from gun violence than they are in car accidents.

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The Octopus Tree, a 300 year old Sitka spruce located on the Oregon coast, is a massive oddity with unknown origins.

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Actress Venetia Stevenson watches as acrobat and actor Russ Tamblyn, father of actress Amber Tamblyn, does a flip on the sidewalk, c. 1950s.

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Abandoned Chinese fishing village being reclaimed by nature

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Cabins in Hamnoy, Lofoten, Norway

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While Weird Al Yankovic was in Portland he made an impromptu performance on the sidewalk of E. Burnside playing a purple Prince-themed piano. He borrowed the piano from a local non-profit and named it Fiona, after Fiona Apple.

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Alloy Magazine, circa 1993, with its big pants, tiny tops, and ultra minimalism.

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Five year old girl, after a day’s work that began at 5am, was tired and refused to be photographed. The mother said, “Oh, she’s ugly, and picking shrimp is very hard on the fingers.” Biloxi, MS, 1911, by Lewis Wickes Hine [640x478]

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Sun hat, 1950s.

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At 30m below sea level, off the Cap d’Antibes, lies the remains of a underwater miniature French town complete with houses and buildings up to 1m high. The aquatic town was built in 1965 by French filmmakers who wanted to shoot parts of their movie, L’Enfant et la Sirene [600x800]

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Cozy little cabin hidden away deep in the woods of Washington state

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Billy Joel enjoying a beer in 1974

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The cozy den of a cabin in the middle of the snowy woods

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Taking in the alpenglow from the Devil's Peak Fire Lookout, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon (photograph by Davyn Owen) [750x1000]

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Kitchen in Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939, photograph by Dorothea Lange.

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DDT is good for me-e-e! 1947.

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A new Mom in 1900

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Princess Diana and Prince Harry, 1984

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Woman posting a letter, London, 1940 (Photo by Cecil Beaton) [750x806]

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American suburbs, 1940s

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French woman pours a hot cup of tea for a British soldier fighting in Normandy, 1944 [750x637]

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A kid wearing a Native American headdress emerges from a coal hole, 1954 by Thurston Hopkins

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Cats vs doorbells

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DDT, 1947.

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These types of business cards were given to men at train stations as they entered town to advertise houses of prostitution. These cards were popular and on open use until the 1930's. The women were called Soiled Doves in the Victorian era [482x724]

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You can see the entire world in her eyes [740x1077]

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When you become obsessed with gains for one specific body part.

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My wife can do anything. If you tell her she can't, she'll surprise you the next week. She'll not only be good, she'll be Lucy - Desi Arnaz, married to Lucille Ball 1940-1960

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Swamp sculpture (The Ferryman's End) in Eastern Ireland

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Rejection letter sent by Warner Bros to Clint Eastwood in 1984 for his script for “Unforgiven.” The movie would go on to win multiple awards, including Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. (Originally shared on Instagram by his son, Scott Eastwood).

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A bride walks out of her bombed-out home. London, November 5th, 1940.

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Under the mistletoe, circa 1900s

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The men on the right are about to paratroop into France on D-Day. The men on the left are the same men today, sitting in the same plane.

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Two well dressed women, Mrs. Joan Leochner and Mrs. Shiela Schutzman, in a late model convertible getting ready to park their car in a carport, June 29, 1954

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Tamolitch Pool, McKenzie River Trail, Oregon. Commonly referred to as The Blue Pool, its name means “tub” or “bucket” in Chinook. It is said to have formed several thousand years ago as a result of lava erupting from nearby Belknap Canyon, which stopped the McKenzie River. [1080x1349] - Quin Schrock

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Photographer Margaret Bourne-White on a gargoyle at the top of the Chrysler Building, New York, 1935

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1940’s wedding in Alberta

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Traveling grocery store in Harlan, Kentucky, circa 1930s, bringing groceries to rural customers less likely to visit the main stores in town.

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Hitting the road in style, 1930s.

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Caroline Kennedy walks ahead while her father, the most powerful man in the world, carries her doll, 1960

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Both are important issues but Congress seems to feel one is more important to act quickly on than the other.

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A careless driver caused an accident while looking at two women wearing shorts in public, 1937.

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Little Italy, New York City, 1943

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A 15-year-old Johnny Carson in 1940

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Beech-Nut girl in Harlem, 1940s

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Albuca concordiana. I do not own this image, but I was browsing online for house plants today and this one literally took my breath away with its simplistic beauty and romantic curls (photograph by Dasinsekt)

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Two African American midwives of Leon County, Florida, 1944.

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Check please.

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A very talented vendor with very impressive balance. Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California, 1930s [OS] [591x760]

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Levittown, Long Island, New York, 1950s. A legendary suburban community, Levittown embodied the best and worst of the postwar American story

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When Ambien turns your into a racist

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My fiance and I have been having some intense arguments about gun control since the Parkland shooting. I am for banning assault weapons and he isn’t. I posed this question to him and asked him to choose an answer.

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A group of friends enjoying their weekend, photograph by Lisa Larsen for LIFE Magazine, 1951

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hmmmm

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The wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zielinski in Chicago, Illinois, circa 1920

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Photographer Margaret Bourne-White on a gargoyle at the top of the Chrysler Building, New York, 1935

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Hiram Maxim (left) and the Maxim gun along with Louis Cassier and J. Bucknall Smith c. 1895 [528x720]

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Milla Jovovich in 1988

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A WWII solider and his girl, 1940s.

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A Bodi tribe baby fast asleep. The 'coffee bean' hairstyle is often seen in the region. Hana Mursi, Omo Valley, Ethiopia (photographer: Eric Lafforgue) [724x1024]

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Sammy Davis Jr. and Martin Luther King Jr. share a laugh in Davis’ dressing room at New York’s Majestic Theater, 1965.

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A woman fixing her pillows and mattress on the top bunk as she prepares for a nights sleep in an air raid shelter during he Blitz, November 1940.

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Dragon Temple in Bangkok, Thailand

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Engaged, July 15, 1919

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How and What to Tell a Communist, circa 1950s

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A cozy bedroom to lay down and watch the rain fall

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Abandoned car graveyard [640x959]

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Polychrome pool, located high in the Three Sisters Wilderness area of Central Oregon [1080x864]

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A bride on her wedding day, 1911

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The Wicked Witch of the West, Margaret Hamilton, 1939.

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The ultimate coziness: solitude and peacefulness.

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July 1940. Canning beans in farm kitchen near Bristol, Vermont. Photo by Louise Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.

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Tunnel Falls, Eagle Creek Trail, Oregon [599x900]

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Drew Barrymore in her bedroom, 1987

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Early 1940’s sailor and his bride

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