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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
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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 — 16 hours 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 — 1 day ago

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

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 — 2 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 — 2 days ago

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 — 3 days ago
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November 1938, William E. Smith, farmer near Morganza, Louisiana, inspecting his beehives. He will receive FSA (Farm Security Administration) aid

u/Unionforever1865 — 5 days ago

The Cleveland Telephone Company Baseball Club 1906

Team photograph of Cleveland Telephone Co. Baseball Club from 1906.

u/jindy3506 — 4 days ago
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Actor dressed as the devil from the 1910 Pageant of Peterborough, The House of Dreams, an outdoor musical staged in the woods of Peterborough, New Hampshire by the Macdowell Colony on an outdoor stage August 16, 18 and 20, 1910.

u/Unionforever1865 — 7 days ago

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

u/Unionforever1865 — 4 days ago