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Vernon and Irene Portrayed by Fred and Ginger

Date: 1939
Description: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the motion picture, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (RKO, 1939). Although Astaire and Rogers were ideally cast to...
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Wright Brothers Memorial

Date: 1939
Description: Aerial view of a B-15 flying over the granite memorial to the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The 60-foot memorial was dedicat...
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Dickey Chapelle with a Pilot

Date: 1939
Description: Dickey Chapelle, in a helmet and goggles, poses next to another pilot in front of an airplane.
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Destroying the Temple

Date: 1939
Description: A snapshot, taken during the summer, of the Jewish temple being demolished in Danzig.
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Nazi Bodies

Date: 1939
Description: Bodies of Germans killed by Poles in Lemberg when the Nazis invaded Poland. American journalist Alvin Steinkopf was one of a number of journalists from neu...
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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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Burial of German Massacre Victims

Date: 1939
Description: A group of people stand in a graveyard in Lemberg, Poland as German victims of a massacre are buried.
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Massacre Victim

Date: 1939
Description: A German person who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
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Massacre Victim

Date: 1939
Description: A German person who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
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Massacre Victim

Date: 1939
Description: A German person who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
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Massacre Victims

Date: 1939
Description: Germans who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
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Massacre Victims

Date: 1939
Description: Germans who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
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Massacre Victims

Date: 1939
Description: Germans who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
Photograph

Duck Hunter

Date: 1939
Description: A man wearing waders and smoking a pipe, is sitting and holding several ducks on his lap, and has his shotgun resting on his right leg. His left hand is re...
Poster

Movilitzem Tots Els Fronts Per Imposar

Date: 1939
Description: Text at top reads: "Movilitzem Tots Els Fronts Per Imposar El Combat Decisiu Contra El Feixisme." Text at bottom reads: "P.S.U. (De l'informe de Joan Comor...
Poster

Constitutió voluntària d'unitats qualificades de combatents

Date: 1939
Description: Text at top left reads: "Constitutió voluntària d'unitats qualificades de combatents. P.S.U." Text at bottom reads: "(De l'informe de Joan Comorera del 6 d...

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