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My Ridiculously Attractive Grandparents Sitting For A Portrait In The Early 1940s

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The last 100 years have produced profound changes in human history.

Wars, technological developments, progress in civil rights, and breakthroughs in science and medicine, the old world has been swept away. Whether it's for better or worse.

Centuries-old empires crumbled as new ideologies – like communism and fascism – took over in many parts of the world. Wars in the early part of the 20th century put an end to the colonial world and gave birth to new nations. However, these wars also cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars.

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My Mom On Her Wedding Day November 1951

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#4

Cats Blackie & Brownie Catching Squirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher's Dairy Farm In Fresno, California, 1954

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Throughout the past century, technological innovations have transformed our lives in ways we never dreamed of. Progressive ideas emerged and changed the world as women, African Americans, and the LGBTQ community demanded, and often won, equal rights; from the ratification of the 19th Amendment in the United States to the legalization of same-sex marriage in many countries. But recent civil rights conflicts tell us the fight for equality is not over.

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A Native American Girl Of The Kiowa Tribe, Oklahoma, 1894

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#6

My Great-Great-Grandmother Sometime In The 1890s

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The pandemic that began ravaging the world in 2020 reminds us that even though we can buy a ticket to go to space, we're still vulnerable to viruses that can shut down economies and disrupt society.

People are hoping science can save Earth from the devastating changes to the climate that continue to imperil the ecosystems of our planet. In the coming years, natural disasters may have an increasingly impactful role in the course of history. Who knows where we will end up in another 100.

#7

Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn C.1940

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#8

Two Pals (1920)

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#9

Gay Men Pose For A Photo While Being Detained At A Police Station For Being Homosexuals In Mexico, 1935

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#10

1945: The Day Daddy Came Home. Gunner Hector Murdoch Had Been Gone Over Four Years, Most Of It As A Prisoner Of War In Singapore. His Wife Rosina And Son John Hadn't Known If He Was Dead Or Alive. He Got Home On His Birthday

1945: The Day Daddy Came Home. Gunner Hector Murdoch Had Been Gone Over Four Years, Most Of It As A Prisoner Of War In Singapore. His Wife Rosina And Son John Hadn't Known If He Was Dead Or Alive. He Got Home On His Birthday

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610points

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#11

Dad Showing Off His Skill To The Surprise Of His Little Daughter In Melbourne, Australia, Ca. 1940s

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#12

London's First Black Police Officer, PC Norwell Roberts, On Point Duty Near Charing Cross Station, 1968

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586points

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#13

This 1955 Photo Is One Of Walter Chandoha’s Most Famous Shots. “My Daughter Paula And The Kitten Both ‘Smiled’ For The Camera At The Same Time. …but The Cat’s Not Smiling, He’s Meowing”

This 1955 Photo Is One Of Walter Chandoha’s Most Famous Shots. “My Daughter Paula And The Kitten Both ‘Smiled’ For The Camera At The Same Time. …but The Cat’s Not Smiling, He’s Meowing”

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#14

Sisters In Skirts, 1950s

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#15

My Great Grandmother In The Early 1900’s. Thought She Looked Too Awesome Not To Share

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#16

My Parents’ Wedding Photo, Okinawa, 1964

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#17

My Grandpa (Left) And His Best Friend Willie Hall During The Korean War. Those Smiles Say It All

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#18

My Grandfather, Great-Grandfather, Great-Great-Grandfather, And Great-Great-Great Grandmother, Ca 1918

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#19

My Great-Grandfather That Was Too Poor To Afford A Suit In Sicily, So He Had To Pose In Front Of A Cardboard Cut-Out, 1930s~

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#20

This Is Hazel, My Grandmother-In-Law. 1916

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#21

My Grandmother And Mom Circa 1974. My Grandmother Took My Mother To National Parks Over The Course Of A Few Months, Just The Two Of Them

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488points

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#22

“Our Michael”, 1938

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#23

A Sailor "Meets" His Baby For The First Time After Fourteen Months At Sea, 1940s

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#24

Grandma And Papa In 1937. She Passed Away Today At 100 Years Old

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464points

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#25

Last Picture Of My Great Uncle Kennith, Before He Drowned In The Buffalo River, 1940’s. He Gave His Life Saving My Grandpa

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#26

My Mother Made Us Matching Dresses For A Fancy Party Back In 1954

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439points

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#27

Saw This Photo Posted Here.. Noticed I Have The Photo The Grandmother Took That Day. (Bought At An Antique Shop Years Ago In Phx)

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431points

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#28

A Parisian Woman With Her Cat In Her Cannabis Garden, 1910

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428points

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This Is My Grandma Dorothy. She Was A Dress Designer In The 50s Which Always Made This Photo More Funny To Me. She Passed Away Today At Age 89. A Life Well Lived

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427points

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#30

Vintage Photo From A Family Album, Freeport, Il

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#31

Me And My Best Friend Rocky Watching TV, 1959

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#32

Ladies At A Lesbian Club In Chelsea, 1953

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#33

A Mostly Happy Family Outing At Chicken Bone Beach, The Segregated Section Of Atlantic City's Beach Area, New Jersey, 1950s (Photographed By John W. Mosley)

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374points

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Amanita Virosa 3 years ago

I love them Mom's cap. My Gran had one too.

145points

Seabeast 3 years ago

I didn't think they still made those caps, but I saw some for sale at a pool in France a few years back.

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Michigan Guy 3 years ago

imagine thinking to yourself: i don't mind sharing the same ocean with THOSE PEOPLE, but i surely won't stand for sharing the same sand with them, for god's sake. Er. what???

38points

Michigan Guy 3 years ago

anybody we demonize. not just race...

11points

Auntie Kiki 3 years ago

That kid in the middle though! So relatable to anyone who has one of those kids who hates getting photographed!

26points

Gina Babe 3 years ago

That's what I was thinking

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Cathleen Cummings 3 years ago

LOVE her bathing suit! Beautiful family.

24points

Molly Reece 3 years ago

I adore mums bathing suit! Wish that style would come back!!

13points

Auntriarch 3 years ago

Me too! And the style with the little skirt

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Rebekah 3 years ago

What a cute fam.

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Nugget 3 years ago

Great swimming trunks. Actually,great swimwear all round!

9points

Molly Reece 3 years ago

Very classy!!

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Sportsgal 3 years ago

Oldest son...why am I here?!?

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California Jones 3 years ago

Middle kid reminds me of my brother. Always complains about going to the beach. (and getting pix taken).

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Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago

Such a lovely photo... and then there's the brothers hamming it up. LOL

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Dani Alexander 3 years ago

So wholesome

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Black Karen 3 years ago

The girl is absolute gorgeous.

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shado 3 years ago

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Ella Blackwood 3 years ago

What an adorable family! The looks on the two boys' faces just cracks me up!

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Sue Lynn Chan 3 years ago (edited)

The middle one look disgusted

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A B C 3 years ago

Well, teenagers have been doing silly faces since ever on pictures, haven't they? 😅

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Leigh Garrison 2 years ago

Love moms cap, kids from, kids are funny in photos!

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Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago

LOL, always one child that has to make a face. Cute picture!!

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Tom Markham 2 years ago

What a beautiful photo!

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Pollywog 2 years ago

I love mom's suit and the cap!!! There's always the one kid...... This is an awesome family photo!!!

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PVR 2 years ago

Love the fashions.

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Mimi M 2 years ago (edited)

Beautiful family. Glad that they likely lived to see the end of that awful policy.

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Sherry Harvey 2 years ago

A very handsome family. It’s awful they faced open discrimination then. Thank God laws changed.

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Charley Harward 2 years ago

that kid in the middles face tho

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Finnsya 2 years ago

I've enjoyed going to this beach 🏖️ with my family for years! Had no idea it had a history of segregation. Still, seems like the family had a good time.

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Heather Wright 2 years ago

The little boy in front is ripped! He's got more muscle than his dad!

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Janet Graham 2 years ago

Nice family photo.

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Keilana Ferenczy 2 years ago

All the children's faces are just... on point.

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Alison Duncan Murphy 2 years ago

I love baby brother's swim pants! It's so sad to see strong, Black families knowing they were doing well and moving upward until the Democrats, who had been pushing them down since they stepped foot in this country, gained enough power to put them on a path of destruction that remains to this day. Knowing that Malcolm X predicted this in his speech "The Ballot or the Bullet,” delivered on April 3, 1964, at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, “you put them (Democrats) first and they put you last, cause you’re a chump, you’re a political chump,” still infuriates me to this day. He and MLK were powerful voices for blacks and the democrats couldn't allow their voices to be heard which is why he was assassinated 9 months later in February of 1965 and MLK, Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

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Kristina Thomas 2 years ago

I know that face. My brother did it or something similar in every photo during his entire preteen years. The kid is just being silly because he doesn't want to pose for a photo. He's not actually sad.

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Redwood Rebelgirl 2 years ago

Beautiful family! 💗 (Sorry for whatever's going on with older brother!)

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Tymek Marcinkowski 2 years ago

Mostly?

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Science View 2 years ago

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Ella Blackwood 2 years ago

What a cute family! I love how expressive they all are!

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Corn Pone 2 years ago

Why is the one kid not happy? Maybe he doesn't like the beach?

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Kristen Adorno 2 years ago

They’re a beautiful family!

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Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

I love the middle boys expression!

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sharron lynn parsons 3 years ago

What a lovely family, makes me happy for them, a segregated beach, about time, they are people, who just happen t o be a different color, God made them, as he made , all of us, they deserve to enjoy life, God bless then, and all people

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Mumof1 3 years ago

Love this photo - the boy's face!

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Bernadette Jamieson 3 years ago

What a handsome family.

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Sue Clifford 3 years ago

I like the little boy, he looks so happy until the teenager who really doesn’t want to be there..

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Bernadette Jamieson 3 years ago

Beautiful looking family.

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Julia Jules Whitelegg 3 years ago

Beautiful family x

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Donald Holder 3 years ago (edited)

Some people just don't like taking pictures. I have a brother like that. I have a couple thousand pictured over the last 60 years of family vacations, holidays, school and you will be hard pressed to find one with him smiling or not making weird faces in them.

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Sandy Kavanaugh 3 years ago

A well to do family, too!

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Zelda Jones 3 years ago

Reminds me of some of my family's photos. We had a big family, so there was always someone pulling a silly face.

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Mairlady 3 years ago

They had the most awful swim suits back then!

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Sandra Gould 3 years ago

Oh yes, I remember bathing caps. I thought they were to keep your hair dry, but they were used at pools to keep hair from clogging up the drains, as well.

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LiuLiu 3 years ago

nice looking family!

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Maja Lange 3 years ago

That's a mighty young life guard!

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Mike Ray 3 years ago

I bet I know why it was called 'Chicken Bone Beach'

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Auntriarch 3 years ago

Same reason as the train I'm guessing

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Tami 3 years ago

There's always one...

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Rob Woodman 3 years ago

He’s not actually wrong though. Look it up.

1point

Suzy the observer 3 years ago

They do look happy despite...

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Rob Woodman 3 years ago

Despite? It was actually pretty cool. Research it a little—I’d much rather have been down in that area...seeing Sammy Davis Jr and the Mills Brothers etc...way more cool.

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Dani Ra 3 years ago

I want to know what made the daughter make the face she is making

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Eunice Probert 3 years ago

I'd guess that the sun is in her eyes.

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Black Karen 3 years ago

Um... shes smiling.

1point

Rob Woodman 3 years ago

She’d actually just been raped by a white man. Or five. It explains everything. Idiot.

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#34

1976 vs. 2018; 42 Years And We're Still Going Strong

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#35

Young Oyster Shuckers, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1909

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#36

Reddit Seems To Love My Taita (Grandma), So Here Is Another One Of Her From 1950’s Beirut

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367points

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#37

The Wedding Rings Of My Ggm, Gggm, Ggggm, And Gggggm Oldest Dating Back To 1832!

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#38

Police Officer Unaware Of The Imminent Danger, Chicago, 1959

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#39

After Spending More Than Five Years In A North Vietnamese Camp, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm Is Reunited With His Family At Travis Afb, March 13, 1973

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#40

My Grandpa’s Schoolhouse In Texas Ca. 1930’s. He Was Always Embarrassed Of This Picture Because He Was Too Poor To Afford Shoes

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#41

Women Trainees Of The Lapd Practice Firing Their Newly Issued Revolvers, 1948

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#42

Dublin, 1962

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#43

Caught On The Firescape, 1946

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#44

Offerings To The Unknown Dead, Kyoto, Japan, 1963

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#45

The 70s Transition: My Parents In 1968 And Again In 1970

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#46

My American Grandmother Visiting Athens In The 1960s

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#47

Listening To The Radio On The Beach, Circa 1940s

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#48

The Rolled-Stockings Trend Of The 1920's Brought On A Fad Of Hand-Painted Knees

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#49

Class Divide In Britain, 1930's

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#50

Me Ready For Friday Night Lights, 1969

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#51

Fatherhood, 1970s

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#52

I Clip Articles That Interest Me. This One From 1981 Seemed So Crazy It Was Worth Saving

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#53

In 1959, Volvo Invented The 3-Point Seat Belt, Then Gave A Free License To All Other Car Manufacturers To Use It

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78points

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#54

Woman Stands On A Farmer’s Shoulders To Emphasizes The Height Of Their Corn Crop, Minnesota, 1916

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#55

The Way We Were ... And Are Again

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#56

Midsummer Celebration At Skansen, Stockholm In The 1970s. Glad Midsommar!

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