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Santa Claus with a jar of pennies on a scale. ‘Your penny will register. The Salvation Army needs 500 pounds of pennies.’ Scale courtesy of F.H. McCrae Store Fixtures, Knoxville, Tennessee, December 1936.
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A family bikes down the street in a four-person bicycle invention, 1939. (649×768)
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First photograph ever taken of the United States supreme court, 1867. Referred to as the "Chase Court" after chief justice Salmon P Chase, (middle) it presided over major reconstruction era changes in US society. The man to the far left was supreme court clerk Daniel Wesley Middleton. (1280 X 885)
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Stalin, Lenin and Kalinin at the Congress of the Russian Communist Party, March 1919.
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14 Sicilian mobsters arrested at the first known national meeting of the Mafia held in Cleveland in 1928, and hosted by Cleveland mob boss Joe Porrello. Joseph Profaci seated in wheelchair ( (boss of Colombo crime family of New York City)
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German First World War veteran Hans Lange with a portrait of himself as a 19-year-old in 1918. Photograph taken in 1998. (1170 x 1753)
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Sonny Barger, de facto leader of the Hell's Angels and founder of it's Oakland Chapter, in 1967. Journalist Hunter S Thompson, who lived with the Angels for a year, once described Barger as one of the 3 most intimidating men he'd ever met, comparing him to Muhammad Ali & the US president (873x873)
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A lady feeding a homeless cat during World War II, Paris. 1939-1945. (693×900)
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A rare picture of Nikola Tesla's funaral on Jan 12, 1943. His casket is covered with both the flags of USA and Yugoslavia. (1920×1300)
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