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  1. A woman calling for more books during a New York Public Library book drive for soldiers
  2. 'The Great War.' French poster, c1915
  3. Wall Street Crash, Black Thursday, 1929
  4. USS Reno after being torpedoed, photographed alongside the USS Zuni, 1944
  5. Trapeze artists performing at a circus, 1890
  6. The USS California damaged during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941
  7. The circus at Luna Park in Cleveland, Ohio, 1905
  8. The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers, America's Greatest Shows, 1898
  9. Steelworkers on girders of the Empire State Building, New York City, 1931
  10. Park Avenue at night, with Grand Central Station and the Pan Am Building
  11. Italian immigrants arriving at Ellis Island aboard the S.S. Regina d'Italia, 1921
  12. Descente d'Absalon par Miss Stena, 1890
  13. An old man who buys old clothes in New York City, 1910
  14. American landing craft dropping its ramp on the beach at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
  15. American amphibious tanks landing on Ngesebus Island during the Battle of Peleliu, 1944
  16. A British Churchill flame throwing tank in Sterkrade, Germany, 1945
  17. Australian troops walking along duckboards through the remains of Chateau Wood, 1917
  18. Marchers in Harlem, New York City, carrying banners, Civil Rights March, 1965
  19. Lewis and Clark, with their guide Sacagawea in the Bitterroot Mountains
  20. Japanese transport burning on Guadalcanal during the Battle of Solomon Islands, 1942
  21. German troops in a trench during World War I, 1917
  22. Flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, 1944
  23. American sailors kissing and posing with a woman, celebrating the end of World War II
  24. Allied troops photographed in a communication trench during World War I
  25. A German 68 machine gun from World War I
  26. A British priest saying a prayer over a German soldier during World War I
  27. Women's Rights Parade, 1917
  28. Women's Rights Parade, 1913
  29. Wilbur Wright flying past the Statue of Liberty, 1909
  30. U.S. Marine Raiders posing in front of a Japanese dugout, Bougainville, New Guinea
  31. Prohibition Repeal, 1933
  32. Plant the Seeds of Victory - Buy War Bonds, 1943
  33. Pennsylvania Station in New York City, 1911
  34. Patchwork Quilt, 1906
  35. Life-Line of Freedom - The Merchant Marine, 1944
  36. George S. Patton (1885-1945)
  37. Four female pilots looking at a chart, 1941
  38. Fight, Let's Go! Join the Navy, 1941
  39. Entrance to the J.P. Morgan Library on Madison Avenue in New York City, 1910
  40. Clark Gable (1901-1960)
  41. An American official dumping kegs of bootleg liquor into the sewer during Prohibition
  42. A horse-drawn Chambers Street Ferry streetcar in downtown Manhattan, 1908
  43. $30,000 worth of bootleg liquor found in St. Louis, Missouri, 1931
  44. Verrazzano-Narrows bridge looking north toward Brooklyn from Staten Island, 1970
  45. Verrazzano-Narrows bridge from Brooklyn, looking southwest toward Staten Island, 1970
  46. Two women riveting a piece of machinery at an American bomber plant during World War II
  47. The K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  48. The Dakota apartments at 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City, 1910