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Woodchopping Contest

Date: 1936
Description: A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest.
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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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Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
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Ansel Adams

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams inserts the film holder into his 8 x 10 camera. He is photographing from a platform mounted on the top of his International Travelall truck.
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Truck at Construction Site

Date: 1969
Description: Truck at the construction site of the World Trade Center.
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Construction Workers Digging a Hole

Date: 1969
Description: Three construction workers, two in the hole, and one above, digging at the World Trade Center construction site.
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Construction Equipment

Date: 1969
Description: Construction machinery at the construction site of the World Trade Center.
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Knives on Display

Date: 1969
Description: Knives and shears in a display case behind a show window, which is reflecting buildings and clouds in the sky.
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Men and Boys Around Hay Baler

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of men and boys gathered around a hay baler and other machines at work on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. The farm was located 7...
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Group Watching Hay Baler

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of a men, women, and children gathered around a hay baler and other machines at work on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. The farm...
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North Vietnamese Collective

Date: 08 29 1967
Description: A group of people sit and stand outdoors with a group of baskets at a collective farm near Phat Diem, North Vietnam, visited by American journalist David S...
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Juan Almeida Bosque at Construction Site

Date: 1959
Description: Juan Almeida Bosque, operating chief of the Cuban Air Force, hammering a spike into a block of concrete with the help of a construction worker.
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Commandos L Radio Installation

Date: 1963
Description: Members of the anti-Castro group Commandos L installing a radio transmitter on a roof. Two men are crouching working with a wire on the flat roof. A row of...
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Commandos L Radio Installation

Date: 1963
Description: Members of the anti-Castro group Commandos L installing a radio transmitter on a roof. Two men crouching working with a wire on the flat roof. A row of pal...
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Waiting at Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: A small group of refugees wait with luggage under an awning at Luang Prabang airport, Laos. An armed soldier stands behind them on the right. There is a tr...
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Lao Infantry in the Field

Date: 05 1961
Description: Colonel Bounchon's Lao Infantry in the field in the Luang Prabang vicinity during a mission to lay explosives behind lines. Two men stand in the background...
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Lao Infantrymen with Rocket Launcher

Date: 05 1961
Description: Three of Colonel Bounchon's Lao Infantrymen pose for a picture with a rocket launcher in a ditch in the Luang Prabang vicinity.
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Gift Cows, U.S. Marine Helicopter Base

Date: 06 1962
Description: Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r...
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Widening Irrigation Canal

Date: 1962
Description: Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ...
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German Bodies

Date: 1939
Description: Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi...

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