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1957/58:
Doxford Engine factory
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1950s
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The Doxford Friends Association
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1953:
Volkswagen factory
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1950:
Birth of the Ark Royal
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1st October 1913:
Wreck of the Glenesslin
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1915:
Colour photographs of Shackleton’s Antarctica
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1938-1939:
Nazi Germany in Antarctica
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1944:
Victory, United States Marine Corps
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1902:
The Thomas W. Lawson
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1914-1918:
Dazzle-Ships
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1956:
‘Here’s What We’ll Wear in Space’
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c. 1950s:
Phone hats
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1957:
Monsanto “House of the Future”
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1951:
“How to use a dial telephone”
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1958:
Cuban Grand Prix, Havana
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1957:
Norwich City Council’s first computer, being delivered
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1957:
Picasso as Popeye
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1957:
A visit to London
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1950s-1970s:
Nuclear Bomb Tests
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1950s:
A corner in Clerkenwell, London
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1957:
Power Mower Deluxe
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1957-159:
The Quarry Men
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1912:
The ice-berg that sunk the Titanic, 1912
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1942:
Wreck of the SS Normandie
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1958:
Hula-hooping nun
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1955:
“Why wait till 1955? We might not even be alive”
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1956:
Police Armour
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1950s:
Portable music
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1952:
Marilyn Monroe spitting out a drink
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1950s:
Elvis winking
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1954:
Marilyn Monroe performing to troops in Korea
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c. 1950s:
Yuri Gagarin as a Student
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c. 1964:
Whites only
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1957:
Prince Charles and Princess Anne buried in sand
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‘Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane’ Comic Covers
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1950s:
New York by Saul Leiter
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Fall 1959:
JFK and Jackie in a diner, Oregon