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  • The Boche is captured: 'The Boche … on his head, an old bowler hat embellished with a two-headed paper eagle and topped with a carrot in lieu of a tip. For him to accept to play this role, we had to proceed by surprise and put on his head this fancy pointed helmet quite unexpectedly … after each session the tip of the helmet was devoured with enthusiasm.'
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  • 15. Steel worker in mill as molten steel spills from vat, in Chicago, Illinois 2
  • April 1944
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  • Breaker boys working in a Pennsy. mine, Jan., 1911
  • Lucy
  • Staten Island ferry, Lower Manhattan (1960)
  • trainwreck2
  • New York City, 1900
  • If Star Wars was real 24
  • 19DL
  • 1a
  • Historic-WTF-16
  • Mall 9
  • Eminem
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  • 1
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  • Residents of lower Clinton St near East river, Saturday afternoon (1941)
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  • Buddhist ornament dealer
  • The Emir of Bukhara, 1911
  • Hindenburg
  • Ziegfeld 9
  • Head on display in Paris
  • 1
  • A view of the Pyramids of Giza
  • Knightsbridge
  • marilynm
  • Hollywood Premakes
  • Degenerates
  • 2
  • door detail
  • The Old Hall - Moreton
  • Lego "Lunch atop a skyscraper"
  • 2
  • Tilburg, 1938
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  • The 'Endurance' under full sail, held up in the Weddell Sea, 1915
  • Cold War City 1
  • De Florian 1
  • Last supper 1
  • Church
  • Arthur ended the affair and accidentally shot himself. Why is that so hard to believe?
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  • 21
  • 1985
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  • Christian Dior 9
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  • last4
  • NYC Subway 1980s 1
  • main
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  • Henj Page 1
  • 1995Arts
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  • Vienna 2
  • Whole 1554munster
  • 4
  • 1
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  • 3
  • M. Mauban, 8th Dragoon Regiment, 1815
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  • Paul Gauguin
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  • The Beatles and Mohammed Ali
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  • 11
  • Radiana 5
  • Hobbit
  • 9
  • Unknown (Unknown) (Lauren)
  • Centaur
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  • Spiderman
  • 3
  • Manesta
  • T-shirt
  • Eleventh Division
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  • Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)
  • Anything
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  • 1984: Stan Grossfeld, The Boston Globe - For his series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon.
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U.S. Navy, 1915

September 20th, 2011

Colour photographs of ‘The Grenata Street Army’, 1915

The Boche is captured: 'The Boche … on his head, an old bowler hat embellished with a two-headed paper eagle and topped with a carrot in lieu of a tip. For him to accept to play this role, we had to proceed by surprise and put on his head this fancy pointed helmet quite unexpectedly … after each session the tip of the helmet was devoured with enthusiasm.'
August 3rd, 2011

Aerial Photograph of the Trenches at Ypres 29th July 1915

July 19th, 2011

Studio Portraits of German Soldiers, WWI

July 17th, 2011

WWI Map from Japan

May 20th, 2011

Living Insignia, WWI

Eleventh Division
November 10th, 2010

Massed troops, WWI

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November 9th, 2010

The Dazzle-Ships of WWI

July 21st, 2010

Cross-dressing, WWI

April 15th, 2010

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