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  1. Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) playing baseball for the New York Giants, 1918
  2. Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, 1912
  3. A worker at a tube cutting machine in a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, 1945
  4. A construction worker gripping a rope at work on the Empire State Building, 1931
  5. World War II: V-J Day, 1945
  6. World War II: V-E Day, 1945
  7. World War II: Pearl Harbor, 1941
  8. World War II: Pearl Harbor, 1941
  9. World War II: London Blitz
  10. Ty Cobb and 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson, American baseball players
  11. Trucks hauling 80 tons of scrap rubber for the war effort in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
  12. Shoeless Joe Jackson (1889-1991)
  13. Men working on machine guns at the General Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan
  14. Men and women working on tanks at the Ford Motor Company plant in Richmond, California
  15. Mechanics working on M-4 tanks at a Ford Motor Company munitions plant, 1942
  16. Japanese representatives at the surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
  17. Four P-51 Mustang fighter planes flying in formation over Ramitelli, Italy, 1945
  18. Berlin in ruins after Allied air strikes at the end of World War II, 1945
  19. B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Air Force flying over Schweinfurt, Germany, 1944
  20. American troops on patrol through the ruins of Cologne, Germany, 1945
  21. American troops marching on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris, France, 1944
  22. American Red Cross workers operating out of a railroad car in Poland during World War I
  23. A Woman Spraying Paint On Electrical Control Equipment In A Factory, 1942
  24. A woman calling for more books during a New York Public Library book drive for soldiers
  25. 'The Great War.' French poster, c1915
  26. Wall Street Crash, Black Thursday, 1929
  27. USS Reno after being torpedoed, photographed alongside the USS Zuni, 1944
  28. Trapeze artists performing at a circus, 1890
  29. The USS California damaged during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941
  30. The circus at Luna Park in Cleveland, Ohio, 1905
  31. The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers, America's Greatest Shows, 1898
  32. Steelworkers on girders of the Empire State Building, New York City, 1931
  33. Park Avenue at night, with Grand Central Station and the Pan Am Building
  34. Italian immigrants arriving at Ellis Island aboard the S.S. Regina d'Italia, 1921
  35. Descente d'Absalon par Miss Stena, 1890
  36. An old man who buys old clothes in New York City, 1910
  37. American landing craft dropping its ramp on the beach at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
  38. American amphibious tanks landing on Ngesebus Island during the Battle of Peleliu, 1944
  39. A British Churchill flame throwing tank in Sterkrade, Germany, 1945
  40. Australian troops walking along duckboards through the remains of Chateau Wood, 1917
  41. Marchers in Harlem, New York City, carrying banners, Civil Rights March, 1965
  42. Lewis and Clark, with their guide Sacagawea in the Bitterroot Mountains
  43. Japanese transport burning on Guadalcanal during the Battle of Solomon Islands, 1942
  44. German troops in a trench during World War I, 1917
  45. Flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, 1944
  46. American sailors kissing and posing with a woman, celebrating the end of World War II
  47. Allied troops photographed in a communication trench during World War I
  48. A German 68 machine gun from World War I