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World War II
Captain of the 1st Army of USA Earl J. Topley looks at a German soldier who had killed before the death of three of his colleagues. Dead German soldier is last defender of the French city of...
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Vintage Aviation
From the Leslie Jones collection. Aeroplane flying over beach Amelia Earhart arrives at East Boston Airport in Ford Trimotor, 1920 Army air meet - Carson Beach, 1931 Bathing girls go flying,...
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Amusement Park
Charles Fenno Jacobs was recruited for the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit in World War II. He spent part of May 1942 in Southington, Connecticut, photographing home-front life in "an American town."...
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Samuel J. Hood Studio
Sam Hood was an Australian photographer. Much of his work had a maritime theme. Children's kindergarten, ca. 1930s Girls dancing, ca. 1930s Inspectors of Schools and Swimming watch Stewart House...
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Frank Hohenberger
Tracy reunion at State Park, 1950 Turtle with toe hold, 1927 Upset of household goods, near Cottonwood, Brown County, Indiana, 1928 Venetian troop at Fish Ponds, 1927 Viewing the paintings...
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Joseph Pennell
Group of men working on roadbed, 1912 Group of students on lawn, 1910 Group of women and girls at swimming pool, 1913-1914 Hammond Laundry - Group of people in front of building, Junction...
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UC Berkeley
More from their archives. Couple in garden Family in front of house in farm region Fred Cotton and bicycle Grand Army of the Republic parade, San Francisco Grand Army of the Republic...
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BFD
Boston Fire Department, of course (you were thinking it meant something else? :) Photos by Leslie Jones of firefighters in action. Boston firemen at Bristol St. Headquarters show their skill at drill,...
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Frank Denton
Mr. Denton was a photographer for Tesla Studio in New Zealand. Class at Mrs Ramsay's School, Wanganui, 1919 Crowd at the Wanganui racecourse, with members of a brass band in the foreground, ca. 1910...
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Esther Bubley
Final set of photos taken of people traveling by bus in 1943. Passengers, who have struck up a friendship on a Greyhound bus en route from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to St. Louis, Missouri, telling...
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Winter wonderland
Here are some more shots of Boston in winter, from Leslie Jones. Children make snowman in Fenway Colored man digging out horse and cart, ca. 1939 Dartmouth carnival, 1931 Girls roll snow for...
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The Babcocks
Meet the Babcocks, "an American family." Photos by Ralph Amdursky, a photographer for the War Information Office. These were taken in 1943. Mr. Amdursky died in 2013, just shy of 100 years of age. His...
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Segregation
The age of segregation in America is documented by these depressing photos (from here).
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Adam MacLay
Adam MacLay was a New Zealand photographer. He seems to have specialized in portraits. Donald George McKinley, family baker, Christchurch, ca. 1908 Family group camping, unidentified parents with...
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Charles Fenno Jacobs
More of Fenno Jacobs' photos of Southington, Connecticut. School children in Southington, Connecticut performing the Bellamy salute in May 1942[This extremely creepy form of patriotic display was...
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University of Chicago
These photos are from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. The coded numbers after the picture caption are identifiers...
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Frederick Nelson Jones
Frederick Nelson Jones was a New Zealand photographer. A dictation session using a shorthand typewriter, 1912-25 A truck filled with household items, ca. 1920 At Nelson racecourse, ca. 1910...
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Dick Whittington
Football kicking contest, Southern California, 1931 Free lunch for dogs, Southern California, 1934 Girl in surf, Southern California, 1935 Girl with dog, Southern California, 1930 Girls at...
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Lafayette Studio
Four-Star Restaurant, interior view of the wait staff and customer, 1942 Gaidry Motor Company, new Mercury automobile, 1945 Group at fancy dinner, 1931 Group of children gathered around...
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