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1940:
Giant Typewriter at the World’s Fair
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1940s
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New York Public Library
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1920s / 1930s:
Typewriter Erotica
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1869:
The Cardiff Giant
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1939:
New York World’s Fair employee snowball fight
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c. 1900:
Giant camera
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1938:
Mussolini’s Giant “M” Gate
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1973:
Giant Cue Card used in the Wicker Man flm
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late 1800s:
“Chang the Chinese Giant”
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c. 1400:
Giant Snail Attacking a Knight
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1937:
Mouse Circus at Los Angeles County Fair
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1904:
Windmills for sale, World Fair, St Louis
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1930:
Giant Studebaker
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1896:
Giant Tricycle
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c. 1940s:
Spy radio built into pocket watch (no batteries required)
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c. 1949:
Deep-sea-diver with an umbrella
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1940s:
Colour hi-res photographs of New York
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1947:
Bell Telephone Acoustics Lab
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1943:
Coney Island Wind Machine
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1942:
Wreck of the SS Normandie
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September 1949:
Smog Helmet
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18th June 1939. June 18:
Submarine emergency training
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9th June 1943:
Paratroopers and folding motorcycles
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1939-1945:
Tangee Lipstick ads
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1948-1950:
Soldiers kissing goodbye
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c. 1943:
Batman and Robin
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1945:
“Deaths Head” Hitler Postage Stamp
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c. 1940s:
Nurses playing football
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c. 1940s:
The Baby Boom
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C. 1940s:
Girls on the wing of a Boeing XB-15
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10th May, 1945:
Prisoner of War camp seen from the air, Germany
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November 1943:
Ice on the HMS Belfast
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1941:
Listening Post and Air Raid Lights in Pershing Square Los Angeles
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c. 1940s:
GIs fooling around with a bazooka
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c. 1947-1949:
“The Flying Banana”
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1940s:
“Remember Pearl Harbor – Purl Harder” poster
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c. 1940s:
Electric storm over the tower of the university of Coimbra, Portugal