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Empire State Building before the city grew skyscrapers, 1930s
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My dad looking dapper for school picture day. (late 1950s) He would have been 83-years-old today.
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1179 captured participants in the Bay of Pigs Invasion stand trial for treason. Among those captured were 100 plantation owners, 67 landlords of apartment houses, 35 factory owners, 112 businessmen, 179 lived off unearned income, and 194 ex-soldiers of Batista (Cuba, 1962) .
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Hitler inspects the Schwerer Gustav gun weighing more than 1,350 tons, 1941
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Man laughs as he is chased by a lady with a stick to jam his pennyfarthing, 1900. Glass negative shot with some blurr.
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In 1978, Bob Dylan wanted something different and fired all his backup singers and half the band, including singer songwriter Katey Sagal before she moved into acting
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An ARVN officer kicks a suspected Viet Cong captive in the face, photographed during a counterinsurgency operation. South Vietnam, October 1965.
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Journalist Vladimir Herzog killed in his cell by the military dictatorship of Brazil and framed as suicide, São Paulo, 1975
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