Amazing Historical Photos (24 pics)

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Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947.

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Herman A. "Germany" Schaefer (1876-1919), one of the most entertaining characters in baseball history, 1911.

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Portrait of Lilyann Carol, New York, N.Y., ca. Oct. 1946.

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Mrs. Flagg portrait, 1901.

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A football game C. 1920.

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Group of Western Union Messengers in Norfolk, Va. 1911.

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At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941.

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Sunday cyclists in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. 1942.

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Street types of New York City: Messenger boy and bike, 1896.

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Resting Bedouins and the Grand Pyramid, Cairo, Egypt, C. 1890.

11

Eating German ice cream, 1918.

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Eileen Sedgwick and Marion Tiffany enjoying ice cream cones at the Greenwich Village Garden, 1917.

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A crowd on Thanksgiving Day 1915.

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Dartmouth football team, 1901.

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Le Kursaal, les hotels et la terrasse, Scheveningen, Holland, C. 1890.

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On the beach at Coney Island, 1902.

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"Red" Harold Grange, 1925.

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At Walter Reed Hospital, a soldier who is missing a foot lights a cigarette for another soldier who is missing both arms.

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Woman putting on her lipstick in a park with Union Station behind her, Washington, D.C. 1943.

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A street in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942.

22

Swimming in 1936.

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Bob Burman, race car driver, C. 1910.