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Photograph of an outsized carving knife and fork made by Beaver Falls Cutlery Works. The knife measured 9 feet 7 inches long. The handles were each made from a whole elephant's tusk, and were carved. Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, Philadelphia.
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Photograph of an unidentified family standing in front of their house, Oakdale, Morgan County, Tennessee, 1910. The house was destroyed by a flood in 1929. (Source Tennessee State Library and Archives)
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A US Marine kneels at the grave of a fallen comrade as the flag is lowered at sunset in a U.S. Marine Corps cemetery on Okinawa, June 1945
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President George H.W. Bush with his wife, Barbara at Tiananmen Square in 1974. .
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The crew of USS Miami (CL-89) cleans up after bombarding the Palau Islands in 1944
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Two killed Red Army soldiers on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa of World War 2, Summer of 1941.
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White Army soldiers executing two Red Guard members in Varkaus during the 1918 Finnish Civil War
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A WWI US Navy veteran of Japanese descent arrives at a Japanese internment camp, April 1942 (1280x998)
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