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  After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group of men survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming.

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  USA under communism (1961)

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  Poor Vietcong soldier vs rich South Vietnam soldier, South Vietnam’s leaflet. Vietnam war, date unknown.

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  It Will Be A Great Day USA (1970)

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  One of the only known photos of Mexican general & president Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, 1853. Known in the US for his role at “the Alamo” & notorious in Mexico for coming to power 11 times & losing over half of Mexico to the US in 1848, some regard him as the worst man in Mexican history (816×1154)

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  A New York iron worker walks along a girder high above the city streets 1950.

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  Tricycle Gang in Brooklyn, New York City, 1930s. (1079×792)

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  “Teach a Man To Fish” // USA , 2018 // Artist: Jon McNaughton

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  New York City Blizzard of 1947.

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  American Communist Poster, USA 1932

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  Children playing in Central Park, the building in the distance is the Clark mansion, NYC, 1910s

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  Anti-masturbation cartoon published in the ‘The Sexual System and its Derangements’, an 1875 book published in New York and written by one Emery C. Abbey. The cartoon contrasts the sorry state of the masturbator at ages 16 and 50 with the health & vitality of the abstainer at ages 21 and 70.

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  “It Will Be A Great Day..” USA 1970

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  Scene from Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City, 1930s

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  Rebecca Ann Felton. On 21 November 1922, she became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. Felton was a white supremacist and the last slave owner to serve in Senate who spoke vigorously in favor of lynching African Americans (c1922)

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  I found this photograph of a Nazi at a thrift store in New York

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  Temperance postcard, 1915, USA

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  President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, speaking to the crowds. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. November 19, 1863

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  Four men sitting in William Howard Taft’s would-be White House bathtub, 1909

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  Photograph of Ruth St. Denis in ‘Theodora’, 1924. The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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