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1954:
Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
All images by Eve Arnold
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1950s
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1954:
Marilyn Monroe’s I.D.
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1950s:
Marilyn Monroe vs. Mamie Van Doren
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c. 1955:
Marilyn Monroe Expression Sheet
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c. 1950s:
Marilyn Monroe upside down
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c. 1950s:
Marilyn Monroe in a fun house mirror
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1952:
Marilyn Monroe spitting out a drink
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c.1955-1956:
Marilyn Monroe’s recipe for stuffing
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1955:
Marilyn Monroe captured on film by a 15-year-old
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1950s:
Marilyn Monroe’s Champagne ‘Thank you’ note
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1954:
Marilyn Monroe with the Marines in Korea
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1954:
Marilyn Monroe performing to troops in Korea
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May 1957:
Marilyn Monroe kicks a ball at Ebbets Field, New York
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1940s:
Marilyn Monroe as a brunette
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Late 1940s:
Marilyn Monroe by Earl Moran
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1930s:
Marilyn Monroe as a child
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1945:
Marilyn Monroe Doing War Work
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1960:
Marilyn Monroe recording “Let’s Make Love”
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December 1954:
James Dean holds up Ronald Reagan
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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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1950s:
Construction of BrasÃlia
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1950s-1960s:
Polish Cold War Neon
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c. 1950s:
Rock ‘n’ Roll sur les Quais de Paris
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18th April 1906:
Having fun as San Francisco burns
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1950s / 1960s:
Afghanistan
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1950s-1970s:
Nuclear Bomb Tests
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1959:
Early Vegas From the Air
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1906:
Colour photographs of San Francisco’s Earthquake and Fire
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1880-1920:
Male Anti-Masturbation Devices
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1910s:
Buzzer the Studio Cat
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1959:
Product Capsule: Poster for ‘The Killer Shrews’
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1950s-1970s:
Disney costumes
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1961:
Nelson Mandela
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1968:
Cumbernauld New Town, Scotland
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1914-1918:
Colour photographs of the German Front