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The children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in a formal photo, 1906
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Technician fifth grade Willie Blow, tank driver of a M4A3(75)W Sherman tank from the 784th Tank Battalion attached to the 35th Infantry Division during a rest and refit period in the Venlo area of the Netherlands, March 1945.
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The forward torpedo room aboard the captured German Type IXC submarine U-505 in June, 1944.
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Arthur Clarence Pillsbury on the hood of a “Studebaker Six” about a foot away from the edge at Glacier Point in Yosemite, in 1916. Thirteen others, on the precipice, can be seen near the vehicle.
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Group of radio actors, mostly from Mexico, who were brought to New York between 1944 and 1945 by MGM to dub their productions into Spanish.
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Dynamiting the remains of the statue known as Gargantua in the closed Mirapolis amusement park near Paris. It was then the 19th largest statue in the world. 1995
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An image of Frederick John Robinson, the earliest British Prime Minister to be photographed, most likely in the early to mid 1850s. Robinson was PM from 1827 to 1828.
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Now vanished monument to New York City's Great Fire of 1835. It was erected in commemoration of the fire at 90 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan. The fire burned the entire financial district to the ground under very suspicious circumstances on the night of 12/16/1835.
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Following in the cover of a tank, American infantrymen secure an area on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, after Japanese forces infiltrated their lines during the night in March, 1944.
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