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1949:
18-year-old James Dean in a photo booth
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c. 1930s:
James Dean as a child
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December 1954:
James Dean holds up Ronald Reagan
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1950s:
Elvis in a photo booth
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1959:
Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings in a photo-booth on Grand Central Station, New York City
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1954:
Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
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1948:
13-year-old Elvis’ library card
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1947:
Neil Armstrong’s High School Yearbook photo
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1955:
Marilyn Monroe captured on film by a 15-year-old
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1904:
Happy New Year
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1918:
“Happy New Year”
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c.1900:
Postcards of the year 2000
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1985:
“What Michael Jackson May Look Like In The Year 2000″
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1861:
12-year-old Abbott Handerson Thayer with an owl
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1919:
8-year-old boy vs. the world’s chess masters
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1931:
The Ocean Express in the year 2000
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August 1969:
The Beatles’ Last Photo Session
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c. 1900:
Three-Year-Old John Wilson Webb
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1937:
New Year’s Ball at the Cotton Club
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December 7th, 1978:
Microsoft Staff Photo
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c.1943:
Paul Newman in the Navy
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1948:
Frankenstein and the Mermaid
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1939:
Bela Lugosi as Santa Claus
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1941:
Disney Artists’ Strike
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1940s-1950s:
Colour photographs of circus performers
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1940s-2010s:
Famous People Hanging Out II
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c. 1943:
Batman and Robin
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1940s:
Marilyn Monroe as a brunette
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1949:
Television Taboos
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1940:
Pittsburgh before smoke control
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1948:
The First McDonald’s
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c. 1944:
Before she was Lauren
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Late 1940s:
Marilyn Monroe by Earl Moran
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1940s:
John Wayne’s punch
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1942:
Wreck of the SS Normandie
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1949:
Mercedes Benz SSK “Count Trossi”