Women use compact mirrors in packed crowd to catch sight of the queen in London, June 1966.

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A group of archaeologists discovered a claw of a bird (flesh and muscles still attached to it) while digging down in a cave in New Zealand. Later, the archaeologists confirmed that it is a foot of extinct bird moa which disappeared from earth some 700 - 800 years ago.

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The Arctic 103 years ago compared to today.

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She will be missed greatly. Betty White on her sixth birthday, 1928.

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A couple protesting in NYC in, circa 1940.

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NASA has confirmed it’s launching a mission next year to explore an asteroid worth a whopping $10,000 quadrillion - enough to theoretically make everyone on Earth a billionaire.

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Dolly Parton photographed for Life Magazine, 1979.

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What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1955. [494 x 492]

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1924 Young couple photographed by James Van Der Zee.

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Madeline Kahn with Mel Brooks, 1974.

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Farmers “arrest” the sheriff who was attempting to evict a woman from her farm on behalf of an insurance company. Michigan, 1952.

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WWI. A Canadian soldier tries to comfort a little Belgian baby, who was hurt and whose mother was killed by an artillery shell. November 1918. [640 x 501]

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This is a Whitney Wolverine, it’s a .22lr pistol that looks straight out of Star Trek. It’s fairly rare, but a cool pistol all the same.

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A man rides a bus in Durban, meant for white passengers only, in resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986. [500 x 333]

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The Panama Slide in Coney Island after it was built in 1908. Very popular at time, especially with adults!

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Mother on a couch with her baby on her lap, Bronx, N.Y., 1966.

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Naturally mummified remains were discovered along the arid Atacama desert coast in Chile, dating to around 7000 BCE.

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Telling A Friend May Mean Telling The Enemy. WW2.

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The Last Imperial Family of Russia. From left is Olga, Maria, Tsar Nicholas, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Anastasia, Alexei, and Tatiana, ca. 1914. [640 x 566]

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Jesse Owens upon his return to the U.S. after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

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Marcia Pascal, half-Cherokee woman, 1880s.

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Decapitated statue of Joseph Stalin's head on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. [900 x 563]

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Some of the men of the 369th (15th New York). Who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action during WWI 1918. [600 x 475]

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Native woman and child. King Island, Alaska. Photo taken between 1915 and 1925.

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A smartly dressed lady from Kentucky, c.1900.

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1914-18 c. Mercy Dogs.

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Marie Antoinette built an entire fake village, complete with a working farm and fake villagers, in the backyard of Chateau de Versailles, so she could pretend to be a peasant whenever she felt like it.

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Pam Grier (1974)

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It was July 23, 1967, when the Beatles traveled to Greece and almost bought a Greek Island. The group was at the peak of its acid-dropping, weed-smoking phase — and arguably at the peak of its creativity, too. [1170 x 780]

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Young lady posing with her cat in 1910.

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Brooklyn Dodger baseball star Jackie Robinson holding his young son Jackie Jr. on his lap as he sits with his wife Rachel on front steps of their home, Brooklyn, New York, 1949. Photo by Nina Leen. [1085 x 1350]

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Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960, U. S. [605 x 539]

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1968 Bizzarini Manta.

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Albert Einstein and his daughter become citizens of the United States rather than return to Germany under Hitler. October 1, 1940. [640 x 467]

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Members of the Owls, a black women's softball team in the 1930s.

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Pool at the Landa Hotel in Burgos, Spain, photographed by Ana Himes. [1170 x 1439]

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US Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton, near Shuri, Okinawa, May 1945. [1600 x 1326]. See comment.

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Vietnam War: A 6ft 5in machine gunner with the US 9th Infantry Division is submerged except for his rifle as he crosses a muddy stream in the Mekong delta south of Saigon on 10 September 1968. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP [1920 x 1330]

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A perfectly timed photo.

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Two Vietnamese children, huddling against a canal bank for protection from Viet Cong sniper fire, gaze at an American paratrooper's M79 grenade launcher on New Year's Day, 1966, near Bao Trai. [540 x 357]

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August 13, 1925 An immigrant family on the dock at Ellis Island waiting for the government ferry to take them to Manhattan.

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A rare pink manta ray was spotted off the Great Barrier Reef in 2020. “I had no idea there were pink mantas in the world” says photographer Kristian Laine. The fish, who cruises the waters around Lady Elliot Island, is the only known pink manta ray in the world.

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Bold dark colors for a Paris apartment. [699 x 900]

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1963 Cadillac XP825 Concept.

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Photo taken on April 8, 1945. This horrific picture is part of a photo sequence taken by the automatic bomb strike camera of a B-17. The photosequence shows the final 18 seconds of B-17G 42 'Wee Willie' over Stendal, Saxony- Anhalt, Germany, after it was hit by an 88mm flak burst. [836 x 980]

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Young couple at a soul club in Memphis, photographed in 1971 by David Reed.

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U. S. President John F. Kennedy, after beginning his presidency with a speech that declared “the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” celebrated with his wife Jacqueline at his Inaugural Ball. Photo by Paul Schutzer, 1961, [681 x 1024]

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Pam Grier, whose Mom was Cheyenne Indian, poses in Indian headdress. 1973.

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The Sun, seen through a UV lens.

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Britain “SAS” patrol in North Africa during WW2. [640 x 570]

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Coca Cola (1904)

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Luxury bus service from London to Calcutta by “Albert Tours” which existed till 1970 as The World's Longest Bus Route. This was the route: UK - Belgium - Germany - Austria - Yugoslavia -Bulgaria - Turkey - Iran - Afghanistan - Pakistan -India. [1080 x 825]

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A Native American Girl Of The Kiowa Tribe, Oklahoma, 1894.

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Nazi Germany was fighting with boys in the last days. This boy was given the Iron Cross. 1945. [447 x 647]

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The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a regiment of almost entirely Japanese-Americans, in France, 1944. I read that this regiment was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of American warfare. [1400 x 786]

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A young man demonstrating against low pay for teachers, ca. 1930. “I left school to earn $21 a week. My teacher’s pay is $17.78 a week.” Photo: Paul Thompson.

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A living room in a loft [1125 x 1251]

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The beautiful TOYOTA 2000GT.

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Living space in a houseboat in Amsterdam. [1600 x 1067]

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Bathroom with a view in a renovated townhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland. [1076 x 1076]

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Rotorway Javelin personal helicopter, 1965.

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The Revenant. Leonardo DiCaprio chose to devour a raw slab of bison's liver, to learn to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara), study with a doctor who specializes in ancient healing techniques. DiCaprio calls it the hardest performance of his career.

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Four women posing around bed with a baby. One woman, wearing a nightdress, reclines on bed. Fan is displayed on wall in background. Handwritten on sleeve: Five generations, Ada w/ baby. May, 1905.

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The clean streets of NYC, 1908.

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Black Villa in Harriman State Park, New York State [946 x 1072]

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1920 Portrait of a woman in a lovely summer dress.

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In 1911, Bobby Leach survived a plunge over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel. Fourteen years later, in New Zealand, he slipped on an orange peel and died.

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1925. Little girl with her doll, North Carolina.

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New Challenger or old? [640 x 640]

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Jean Moore Kneels And Kisses Her Fiance, Wheelchair-Bound World War II Veteran Ralph Neppel, 1945, U.S. [915 x 946]

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USIA poster 10/8/1951.

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Two women munitions workers at the National Shell Filling Factory in Chillwell, Nottinghamshire during the First World War, 1917 [1600 x 1066]

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Young woman dressed for an evening out, Detroit, 1968.

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1929 Group celebrating New Year’s Eve.

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A California teacher teaching the physics of surfing, 1970.

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On the night of October 19, 1917, 11 German zeppelins slowly headed toward the English coast. On their way back, unfortunately for them, strong headwinds and fog made a return almost impossible causing 8 out of the 11 to crash. This one is taken from somewhere in central France. [2000 x 1491)

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Brothers Lysenko, all 10 went to the front of the Second World War and all 10 returned.

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In Paris, 1966. Photographer: jack garofalo.

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Rare picture of a black female Union soldier, 1862. Her name was Cathy Williams and she had to pose as a male to be enlisted at the Time..She was part of the 38 Regiment, Infantry Division and was called a Buffalo Soldier.

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April 25, 1945, it’s Elbe Day. United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two during World War II. [1200 x887]

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In the middle of nowhere, after a long walk, I suddenly came to a house ......

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Raquel Welch & Ringo Starr ~ The Magic Christian (1969 ) [600 x 862]

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Kim Basinger, 1980s.

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October, 1944. Two Coast Guard-manned LST's open their great jaws in the surf that washes on Leyte Island beach, as soldiers strip down and build sandbag piers out to the ramps to speed up unloading operations. [2559 x 2080]

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Child learning to roller skate, wisely covered in pillows. 1924.

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American troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris, in the `Victory' Parade. Date: 29 August 1944. [1383 x 922]

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track star Jesse Owens, son of a sharecropper and grandson of slaves, won 4 Olympic golds at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, shattering the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy.

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Loft in Istanbul by @selami.arq [1080 x 1348]

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Graduation Day (1939). Photographer James Van Der Zee.

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1980s. Brooke Shields, Tony Randall & Morgan Fairchild at an event.

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A house from the 7th century in Iran still inhabited.

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Apartment kitchen clad entirely in black tiles with an eat-in banquette, New York. [2048 x 2732]

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Victorian female medical students, UK, circa 1900.

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Ferrari 275 GTB. [640 x 794]

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Chimney room in Montana. [2047 x 1923]

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When USS Independence encountered a full-rigged ship in the Mediterranean in 1962, the carrier signaled to ask the sailing vessel to identify. “Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy,” was the response.“ The Independence reportedly signaled back, You are the most beautiful ship in the world. [1157 x 889]

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US Marines carry their weapons even to take a bath, which is where they are headed near their camp in Chu Lai, Vietnam, on Jan. 16, 1966.[1300 x 971]

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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna posing for their last formal photo session, 1916. [2048 x 1328]

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1989, Honda CO-29 concept.

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These holes are called Qanat — an ancient Persian system of water supply. There was an underground canal that people used to drink water from or would get water for their plants. Just think about this: it was made around 3,000 years ago!

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House in Indonesia [1080 x 1350]

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The Mbalantu Women of Africa and Their Floor-Length Natural Hair Tradition.

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Jones Beach, NY 1955.

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The bedroom at Casa Atibaia, a dreamy, ethereal villa made entirely of glass, on the Atibaia River in Sao Paulo in a beautiful green setting. [1200 x 815]

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“Modern Victorian” Design For A New Orleans Home [1200 x 1500]

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General Montgomery stops his car to talk to men of the Royal Engineers working on a road near Catania, Sicily, August 1943. [800 x 778]

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Chaka Khan, circa 1976.

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1910′s. Children sleeping in a store front during a New York City heat wave, on the Lower East Side.

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The LA Public Library Bookmobile programme for the sick, 1928.

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The Arlesienne evening dress by the House of Worth (ca. 1912-13). Worn by Queen Maud of Norway.

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State Capitol Bank, Oklahoma City, 1962. Architect is Robert B. Roloff.

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A fish and hallucinations

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Lynda Carter in 1995.

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13th Century Crusader - Isle of Skye in Scotland.

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The wizard's tower in the lake.

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Priest giving communion to American soldiers (Korean War, 1950) [581 x 708]

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One of the earliest works by David A. Hardy, dates from 1952, when he was 15 years old.

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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction cover art, May 1965, by Mel Hunter.

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Pam Grier as Jet Magazine's Beauty of The Week (June 24, 1971).

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An unknown group of women, possible friends or fellow students pose for an undated photograph, with one clearly keen to show of her chunky hairbrush. Possibly late 1890s to 1900s.

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Silent Parade, 1917, New York, organized by NAACP to promote civil rights. [761 x 506]

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Visit the USSR - The country of the world's first cosmonaut! (1965)

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Teenagers dressed for a high school dance in the 1920s.

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Four contestants of the Halloween “Slick Chick” beauty contest in Anaheim, California in 1947.

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The Glandon family around the fireplace in their home at Bridges Chapel near Loydston, Tennessee. Glandon's wife plays both the guitar and the organ, October 1933. Photo by Lewis Hine.

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Rocamadour, Midi-Pyrenees, France.

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Rockaway Beach, 1949.

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'70 Challenger.

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The Aqua-Trail Terra Marina Camper/Houseboat, Circa 1959.

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Miami 1950. Photo by Nina Leen.

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People Are Leaving Sticks At This 100-Year-Old Dog Grave (see comment)

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The Royalton Hotel New York. [1100 x 824]

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1954 Paul David Scooter.

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Late 1950’s - early 1960’s newlyweds.

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A Seaside Villa in Stockholm [880 x 834]

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USA Bonds, Weapons For Liberty, 1917.

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Dolly Parton, Detroit, 1977.

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Bucktown, Chicago / USA.

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The Ford Unitron, designed at the Ford Styling Center in late 1960, was Ford’s idea of a combination RV with a portable office.

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Woman in a kitchen, 1950’s.

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1927 c. Hand-made, bespoke evening shoes from Ignazio Pluchino, 83 Walton Street, Chelsea, London. Materials used were Leather, silk, metal, linen and enamel.

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At Disneyland by Loomis Dean, 1955.

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A wedding in Paris a few months before Germany invaded in 1940.

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Family portrait, Ireland, 1934.

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ab. 1910 Portrait of a girl with a hat and a chalkboard, Saint Thomas Island (photo by Oswald Lubeck)

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Saint-Fargeau Chateau Yonne, Puisaye, 1h10 from Paris, Bourgogne. [2048 x 2732]

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School group, 1900s, Ireland. (Colorized Photo)

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Three Girls in a Kitchen, Kentucky, 1964.

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