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España y por el Rey, Gálvez en América. For Spain and for the King, Galvez in America by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, 2015. Depicts Bernardo de Gálvez and his Spanish troops at the Siege of Pensacola in 1781. Galvez, the namesake of Galveston, was made on honorary U.S. Citizen in 2014

u/Unionforever1865 — 11 hours ago
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1920 Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar featuring William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony, on the obverse and the Mayflower on the reverse

u/Unionforever1865 — 1 day ago
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The Lexington Minuteman (1900) by Henry Hudson Kitson said to represent Captain John Parker who told his men on Lexington Green “Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”

u/Unionforever1865 — 2 days ago
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In the late ’70s, Illinois built castles that rolled. Camelot Cruisers. Bus-sized RVs, hand-made and velvet-lined. Not campers. Not Winnebagos. They were palaces on the highway. @MoundLore

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u/Unionforever1865 — 2 days ago
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Wyatt Earp at his home in Los Angeles in 1923. That year he saw himself played in a feature film, Wild Bill Hickok, by Bert Lindley

u/Unionforever1865 — 3 days ago
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Casa de Armijo was built in 1706 in Albuquerque, NM. Its ruins were turned into a restaurant in 1930: La Placita Dining Rooms. These matches are from its 1950s name Hacienda Dining Rooms. La Placita closed in 2020. Today, a small cafe operates out of part of the site.

u/Unionforever1865 — 3 days ago
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Anthony Soraci, grandson of Italian immigrants, leans in to kiss the Statue of Liberty while on scaffolding during restoration work in 1984

u/Unionforever1865 — 23 hours ago
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Jim Thorpe, Wa-Tho-Huk of the Sac and Fox Nation, the greatest athlete of all time at the 1912 Summer Olympic Games wearing mismatched shoes found in the garbage. In those shoes he won gold in the pentathlon and decathlon.

u/Unionforever1865 — 4 days ago
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The tallest Uncle Sam, 38 feet and built in for a restaurant in Ohio in 1965. In 1971, it was moved to the Danbury State Fairgrounds in Connecticut. In 1981, it moved to Magic Forest in Lake George, NY where it is pictured. When Magic Forest closed in 2018 it was moved to the Danbury Railway Museum.

u/Unionforever1865 — 4 days ago
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Ed White conducted America’s first spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965. Spending 23 minutes outside the capsule.

u/Unionforever1865 — 5 days ago