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1964:
Building an automated caveman
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Science and technology
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1960s
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Modern Mechanix
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1893:
Building the first Ferris Wheel
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1926:
Working on the Woolworth Building
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1973:
Building the World Unicorn
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“Guess Who’s Building Nuclear Power Plants”, 1970s
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Summer 1960:
Disney Tomorrowland’s Space Couple
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1968:
Lunar Module Control Panel
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Jully 1969:
President Nixon visits the Apollo II Astronauts in quarantine
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1961:
Whiskey Toothpaste
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1961:
Ford “Glideair” Hover Car
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1966:
X-15 Pilots ‘In a Lighter Mood’
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7th September 1962:
The “New Nine”
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June 1966:
Apollo 1 preparation
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1960s:
Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs Identification Kit
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13th August 1964:
Neil Armstrong during desert survival training, Reno, Nevada
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1960:
Girls in the Window
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1963:
Ice Platform on a Dutch Beach
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April 1961:
Bulldog shave
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c. 1969:
The Beatles aged 64
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9th December 1961:
The Beatles play to 18 people in Aldershot
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1962:
A crow lights Tippi Hedren’s cigarette
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c. 1965:
Leonard Nimoy and his son Adam
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c. 1959-1965:
Martha Stewart as a model
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1960:
Hypnotised Driver
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1960s:
US Gov. Surplus Space Suit Ad
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1961:
London Markets
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1968:
Girls Say Yes To Boys Who Say No
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1960s:
President JFK greets trick or treaters, John Jnr and Caroline
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1960s:
NASA’s Moon Simulator
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1930s-1940s:
Preparing exhibits in the American Museum of Natural History
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1967:
The General Electric Exoskeleton
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1968:
Relocating the temple at Abu Simbel
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1963:
Salvador Dali at a book signing
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1968:
Carnaby Street girls
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1960:
Butterfly on a nose
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1961:
Horses and carts in Dublin