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Anne Lee Patterson Photographed By Alfred Cheney Johnston, Ca. 1930. Patterson was Miss USA in 1931, and also performed in the Ziegfeld Follies that same year.(990x1383)

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Australian soldier consoles a wounded American on the Western Front in WWI, circa. 1917

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Times Square, New York, 1989.

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Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement Poster - c.1910

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Definition of "Keep Calm". Milkman delivering milk right after The "London Blitz". Touched up and colorized

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Gas station in Germany, 1958

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1918: Women workers of a flour mill at Rank & Sons, Birkenhead, England happily pose for the camera.

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An old Italian woman shows her gratitude to one of the American soldiers following the liberation of Italy (Italy 1945)

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Fred Rogers performing a "bedside solo show" for 7-year old Beth Usher during her coma after undergoing surgery for "Rasmussen’s encephalitis" at the John Hopkins Childrens' Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. February 1987

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French AMX-10P (amphibious infantry fighting vehicle) at the Camp Taji vehicle graveyard: (27 km) north of Baghdad, Iraq. That message was spray painted by a U.S. military serviceman - „Completely Yours Even in Iraq. I luv u babe“, c. 2003

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Throughout the USS Triton's secret mission to circumnavigate the world submerged, the only unauthorized individual to spot the submarine during those sixty days was a Filipino man on his canoe, who noticed its periscope. April 1, 1960.

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a rare photo of a Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet flown by Eric Winkle Brown, 1945

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