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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd gathered on the beach at Atlantic City to watch a Curtiss airplane being pushed on an inclined ramp leading to the boardwalk. |
| Date: | 07 1910 |
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| Description: | A Wright airplane on the beach. Walter Brookins, who piloted the plane to a new altitude record, is thought to be the man in the hat near the center. |
| Date: | 07 1910 |
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| Description: | Walter Brookins, a boyhood friend of the Wright Brothers, flying a Wright airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City. Brookins set numerous records for altit... |
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| Description: | Eastern Point Lighthouse at "Mother Ann" and residence on rocky point, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Mother Ann is a rocky cliff at the far south end of Easte... |
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| Description: | View across water toward the Montauk Lighthouse, in Montauk Point State Park, a U.S. Government Reservation on Long Island. Several people are playing on t... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View along boardwalk, with people sitting, and other people walking. Buildings are along the left, and on the right is a lifeguard tower that looks down o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View along beach toward sunbathers sitting and walking along the seashore. A line of automobiles are parked alongside the beach, separated from the sand by... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Dipsy Baths outbuilding and surrounding beach. Umbrellas are set up in the sand where people sunbathe or wade in the water, and an Ame... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a vacation party on a cliff stairway overlooking a seashore. Several men and women in formal dress walk down the stairway. Heavily retouched image. |
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| Description: | A rocky coast is populated with homes, hotels, and a lighthouse. |
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| Description: | View of Kettle Island as seen from Coolidge Point. A residence stands among trees on Coolidge Point. |
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| Description: | Homes stand along the coast near cliffs on Block Island. |
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| Description: | Barnegat Lighthouse was built in 1854 by the U.S. government. Oil-powered lights were originally installed in 1856 but were replaced by electric lights in ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A weathered building stands on a beach, possibly in the state of Washington. A Falstaff beer sign is painted on its side. There is a bridge or viaduct in t... |
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| Description: | Two views of the city. The upper photograph features an elevated view looking west. The lower photograph by O.D. Goetze is taken from a railroad bridge l... |
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| Description: | View of First Wharf from the Bering Sea. A railroad bridge leads to the shoreline. |
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| Description: | A view of the city at high tide. Text on the photograph reads, "Nome. For Five Months in the Year Nome Can Be Reached by Steamship. Its Distance From Sea... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of The Dutch Canning Company of Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, "Packers of Fancy Corn Peas and Beans," with a boy and girl in traditional clothing and ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1945 |
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| Description: | The caption in the Milwaukee Journal, says it best, "From the far-off Pacific (somewhere on Kwajalein), the picture of Ensign Ray Hanson and Robert ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A homemade motorboat on the beach on Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific. Robert Doyle notes that "belly tanks" were used in the boat construction. A buildin... |
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