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Some photos of famous personalities and events.
U.S. chess prodigy, Bobby Fisher, playing 50 opponents simultaneously at his Hollywood hotel on 12 April 1964. He won 47, lost 1 and drew 2
Canadian Swimsuit Model, Montreal, 1946
The Hindenburg successfully landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 1936
A Circus Billboard, 1931
Actress Jean Harlow at a celebration of the return of beer, 1933
Opium Den, Singapore – 1941
Kate Capshaw, Steve Spielberg, George Lucas, & Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – 1984
Gregori Rasputin with his admirers (1914)
Harold Agnew, carrying the plutonium core of the Nagasaki Fat Man bomb
Hitler (on the right) during his military service some time between 1916 – 1919
Old Cincinati Library, looking at one of the large cast-iron book alcoves that lined the Main Reading Hall, circa 1900
Busy Japanese street, 1950
When the first bananas came to Norway. 1905
Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920
A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “Home” while living in a residence for disturbed children. Poland, 1948
Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane, 1965
Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving 1963
June 28, 1956: Smog testing with human subjects
Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, 18th April 1935
A Swedish volunteer in the Winter War. Northern Finland, February 20, 1940
Stjepan Filipović of the socialist Yugoslav Partisans shouts “death to fascism, freedom to the people!” while being hung by Axis forces (1942)
The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, 1931
W.H. Murphy, inventor of bulletproof vest, takes slug to the chest from deputy 1923
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