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Men work to clear a log jam on Bedrock creek, Idaho in 1940 Potlatch Corporation Historical Archive
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The US 4th Marine Division cemetery on Iwo Jima, Japan, March 1945; a DUKW and Jeep can be seen driving in the background with wrecked Japanese aircraft further beyond.
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An F-105D Thunderchief of the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron hit by an SA-2 missile near Hanoi on February 14th 1968. Lt Colonel Robert Malcolm Elliot was Killed in Action, his remains found 20 years later in 1988, and positively identified in 1999
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A CCC man posing with an axe chopping a log in the middle of an airfield under construction, Nez Perce National Forest, in 1939.
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Actresses Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe prepare themselves to put their hands and marks in the Chinese Theater, 26 of June of 1953.
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Former slave, cowboy, and amateur archaeologist George McJunkin (circa 1907). In 1908, he discovered the Folsom site, where, after his death, evidence was found that humans had arrived on the American continent much earlier than the previously accepted 3,000-year limit.
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Actor and martial arts star Jackie Chan at the benefit concert in Hong Kong in support of Tiananmen Square protesters - 1989
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An exhibit on the effects of LSD on fish, assembled by Randy S. McMullen, a 10th grader at Monte Vista High School in Monte Vista, Colorado., draws attention of passerby. McMullen's work was entered in the high school category at the fair. Photo By David Cupp. April 1972
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Jesse Langdon (1881-1975), the last veteran of the Rough Riders unit in Spanish-American War, 1960s, (232x350)
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