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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The photographer holding a large Northern Pike and smoking a pipe in a living room. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man with a cigar stands next to a rack displaying periodicals, including a large number of movie fan and detective magazines. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A street car in Krakow photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf while on a tour of German-occupied Poland. He labeled it in his scrapbook."Jews ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Joel McCrea is seen walking on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." His hair and shirt are wet but he is smiling. Two men walk beside and behind hi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Toots Sullivan (on left) and Emil Picha stand in front of the exterior of the Toot's Standard Gas Station at the intersection of Mill Street and Prairie Av... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid meta... |
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