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Queen Elizabeth

Date: 01 1956
Description: As a feature writer for the Associated Press based in London during the 1950s, Alvin Steinkopf often reported on the Royal family. This is a close-up he to...
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Haying

Date: 1929
Description: Oscar Steinkopf and his horse Jim. They are haying on Steinkopf's 40-acre farm. The photograph was taken by Alvin Steinkopf, Oscar's son, a Milwaukee journ...
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Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1929
Description: Oscar Steinkopf feeding the chickens on his 40-acre farm near Luck. Feeding the chickens was traditionally considered women's work and perhaps Steinkopf wa...
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Nazi Rally

Date: 07 1939
Description: Soldiers watching a Nazi rally in Danzig from which American correspondent Alvin Steinkopf was reporting for the Associated Press in 1939.
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Nazi Youth

Date: 07 1939
Description: German youth marching during a Nazi rally in Danzig.
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Street Car in Krakow

Date: 1940
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 ...
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Warsaw Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion.
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Polish Ghetto

Date: 10 1940
Description: Children and adults in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlovwisc, Poland, posing for American journalist Alvin Steinkopf.
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German Graves

Date: 10 1940
Description: Graves of German soldiers buried near Warsaw.
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Lublin Ghetto

Date: 10 1940
Description: The Jewish ghetto in Lublin, Poland.
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Krakow

Date: 1940
Description: The Market Hall and Square in Krakow, Poland, about a year after the German invasion.
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Sarajevo Street

Date: 11 1940
Description: A street scene in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: A street scene with Sarajevo.
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Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: A wide load on a Sarajevo street, about a year before the Kingdom of Yugoslavia fell to the Germans.
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Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Wood carts and drivers on a street in Sarajevo, about a year before the city fell to the Germans.
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Sarajevo Cemetery

Date: 1940
Description: A Yugoslavian cemetery in Sarajevo photographed by journalist Alvin Steinkopf about one year before the city fell to the Germans.
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Berlin Zebra

Date: 1940
Description: Zebras in the Berlin zoo stretching their necks for what they think may be a treat. It appears that the man is holding a camera. The photograph was taken b...
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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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