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First Lady Florence Harding plants a southern magnolia tree northeast of the entrance to the original 1902 East Wing on March 29, 1922. The tree was replanted in 1947 and redesignated as a commemorative tree for President Harding. It was chopped down without notice sometime in Sept 2025.

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Putin! Stop! Come back here or I’ll be forced to draft a strongly worded condemnation!, 2014.

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Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog - 1953

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My Great Aunt, early 1940s. My cousin put together a book with all her favorite recipes and old family photos

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The moment Bill Clinton heard the news of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 1995.

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King George V's 10-day royal hunting expedition in Nepal. Numerous tigers, rhinoceros, bears, leopards, deer, boar, porcupines and birds were killed with a massive 12,000 crew in 1911.

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3 Vietnam vets, NYC (1984) Photo by Bruce Marrin

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Jacqueline Kennedy Garden outside The White House's East Wing in 1987.

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IWW ( Industrial Workers of the World) anti KKK poster. 1921.

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An American ace pilot in Tunisia, 1943, with an impressive kill tally

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A well dressed family. Early 1900s.

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A black girl and a white girl joining hands while riding the bus together during the initial phases of the integration of the school system in Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1975

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