Photo Historical Photos

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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, 1959

 

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Ernest Hemingway recuperating from his wounds in Milan, 1918

 

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Harry T. Burn, youngest member ever elected to the Tennessee state legislature and who was the deciding vote in passing the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote on August 18, 1920

 

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President Theodore Roosevelt with the Rough Riders at a reunion in San Antonio, Texas, 1905. Teddy Roosevelt, historical hottie?

 

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Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Manhattan, 1935, Berenice Abbott

 

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Homage á Rodin, 1966, Raymond Voinquel

 

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Not quite historic or vintage but was unsure where to place this photo - Oliviero with Ball in Casoli, 1979, Will McBride

 

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Sailor with Playboy magazine, c 1950s

 

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Self Portrait, 1899, Edward Sheriff Curtis

 

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Repairs to the Empire State Building, c 1951

 

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Captain George Elder, Company G, 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the 115th U. S. Colored Infantry, 1860s

Captain Joseph B. Harris, Company D, 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, 1860s

Captain Woodford M. Taylor, Company B, 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, 1860s

Sergeant Jonathan W. Mosley, 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, later transferred to 26th Kentucky Veteran Infantry, 1860s

 

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Safe to say, QEII married Philip for his looks. Beautiful man in his day.

 

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U.S. Navy personnel on liberty on Mog Mog Island. Enlisted men lounge about on the tiny island with plenty of beer. Photographed by the Steichen Photograph Unit, Lieutenant Commander Charles Jacobs, TR-12479, November 1944

 

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A Royal Navy sailor on board HMS Alcantara uses a portable sewing machine to repair a signal flag during a voyage to Sierra Leone, March 1942

 

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General Ulysses S. Grant and his Staff just before the Battle of Petersburg, June 1864

 

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Men of ‘Easy Company’ 2nd Btn 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, celebrate V-E day in Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, May 8 1945

 

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B-17 Green Hornet, 303rd Bomb Group, 359 Bomb Squadron, 1940s

 

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Prince Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Ernst Ludwig of Hesse (future Grand Duke of Hesse) and Prince George of Wales (future King George V of the United Kingdom): E. Uhlenhuth 1890.

 

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R. Norris Williams – survived the sinking of the Titanic but was told to have his legs amputated due to severe frostbite. Refused the doctor’s advise and two years later, in 1914, won the men’s singles title in the U.S. Championships.

 

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Young man and his young pup, year unknown