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| Description: | View along shoreline toward a lighthouse and homes standing on Rocky Point. There are several boats anchored at the shore and in the water. |
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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: | View from beach dunes looking north. View features many plants on sand dunes in the forefront, and people on a sandy beach, many dwellings, and a flag in t... |
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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 ... |
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| Description: | People wearing bathing suits swim in the ocean and lie on the beach. |
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| Description: | Elevated view toward a dwelling that overlooks a steep rocky shoreline over the ocean below. Several people walk along the sand. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Bermuda shoreline. Several dwellings stand on top of the island and people swim in the ocean on the beaches below. |
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| Description: | People stand and sit on a driftwood-cluttered beach. Several people swim in the ocean. Caption reads: "Scene on the Beach. Long Beach. Wash." |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Two members of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta sitting by the rail on a bench as laundry dries on a clothesline in the foreground. One m... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A crew member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta looking over the side of the freighter at the Caribbean Sea and the clouds. The man is ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A sentry wearing fatigues sitting in a tree-top lookout post posing for a photograph in Panama. His sub-machine gun is resting on a section of the lookout ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier walks along the edge of a cliff in Panama, behind stacks of cannonballs and a large sign. The man is wearing a uniform and is holding a sub-machi... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Leota Kelly, directer of the Pacific Athletic Club, division of the Red Cross, and colleagues, at the site of the new Red Cross Club in Tinian near a cliff... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Leota Kelly, director of the Red Cross's Pacific Athletic Club, posing for a picture by the shore in Tinian at the site of the new Red Cross Club. Kelly is... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a newly commissioned hospital ship, the USS Bountiful, in the Ulithi Harbor. The ship was previously called the USS Henderson |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | The sunrise aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. The mast and bow of the ship are pointed eastward, into the fog and towards the rising sun. |
| Date: | 04 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Tank Landing Ship 929 during an operation in Buckner Bay, Okinawa. Other ships are in the background. |
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