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Starlite Drive-in Theater sign

Date: 07 23 1959
Description: "Lights On" sign at the Starlite, a drive-in movie theatre.
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Starlite Drive-in Theater ticket booth

Date: 07 23 1959
Description: Exterior of the ticket booth at the Starlite Theatre, a drive-in movie theatre.
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Edna Kern Hauling Water

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern, wife of Ernest G. Kern, hauling water in buckets to the hen house.
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Onlookers Observe Construction of World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: Rear view of onlookers observing the construction of the World Trade Center towers.
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Elkhart Lake Racetrack

Date: 1987
Description: Race course and grandstand at Road America in Elkhart Lake, where racing began in 1955. Prior to that, Elkhart Lake was host to automobile racing on the vi...
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Swine Competitors

Date: 1962
Description: Competitors in the Junior Livestock Exposition with their pigs before the judging.
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Cemetery Near the World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: Cemetery with a view across the street of the World Trade Center construction site.
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Worker Behind Fence

Date: 1969
Description: Man with hard hat walking behind a fence, possibly an architect, at the construction site of The World Trade Center.
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Three Men Behind Fence

Date: 1969
Description: Three men in hard hats, possibly architects, walking behind a fence at the World Trade Center construction site.
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Condiments on a Table

Date: 1969
Description: Various condiments sit atop a table near a decorative railing at what appears to be a restaurant.
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Man near Construction Site

Date: 1969
Description: A man in the foreground walks past a wire fence with plywood at the construction site. A sign in the background reads, "Marchi for Mayor," and the portion ...
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Construction Truck

Date: 1969
Description: A man is driving a construction truck in the shadow cast by what appears to be an elevated highway. A sign for the "Brooklyn Battery Tunnel" is on one of t...
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Close-Up of Construction Equipment

Date: 1969
Description: View through chain link fence of a logo that says: "Joy" on a piece of construction equipment.
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Construction Worker and Steel Framework

Date: 1969
Description: A construction worker wearing a yellow hard hat stands in the foreground. In the background is the steel framework of one of the The World Trade Center tow...
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Chain-Link Fence and Brickwork

Date: 1969
Description: Close-up of a chain-link fence near a deteriorated brick wall.
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Group of Holocaust Survivors Listen to Orchestra

Date: 1945
Description: Group of Holocaust survivors who were in quarantine after WWII listen to an orchestra playing on their behalf outdoors; Smalands Anneberg, Sweden, Summer.
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Bremen Emigrant Area

Date: 1947
Description: The entrance of the area of emigration for refugees from Europe, taken by Louis Koplin; Bremen, Germany.
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Walter Peltz on Bicycle in Germany

Date: 1946
Description: Walter Wolf Peltz on bicycle; Memmingen, Germany.
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Romanian Synagogue

Date: 1944
Description: Elevated view of the exterior of a Romanian synagogue. The synagogue has possibly been identified as the Cluj-Napoca Reform Synagogue in Cluj-Napoca, Roma...
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Anti-War Demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1970
Description: A large crowd participating in a demonstration against the war in Vietnam, as seen from the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol looking down State Street....

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