“ATOMIC AGE KISS?” — Air raid wardens in Bonn, Germany, 1954. From the New York Journal-American collection at the Harry Ransom Center.
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A French poster for Calamity Jane (1953)
Views of the port of Makhachkala in Dagestan on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, 1871. Photos compiled by American adventurer George Kennan. (Fun fact: Makhachkala was called Petrovsk when this photo was taken.)
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Prussian infantry during the Battle of Mollwitz. April 10, 1741 in Mollwitz, Silesia, now Małujowice, Poland.
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VICTORY CHAIR — Ulysses S. Grant sat in this chair on April 9, 1865. On the subject of its comfort, history is silent.
There can be only one winner in the Game of Chairs.
Happy birthday to the many faces of acting jedi Sir Alec Guinness (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000). Click the photos to see the movie titles.
Little wrestlers of days gone by: Billy the Kid, Cowboy Bradley, Farmer Pete, Cowboy Lang, Jamaica Kid, Little Beaver, Little Bruiser, Lord Littlebrook, and Little Tokyo.
A vision of winged monkey terror in a production photo from The Wizard of Oz (1939) — Note the power cord that amping up the mechanical bat wings.
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The stuff of nightmares — as in tonight.
A member of the Eastern Caribbean Defense Force in occupied Grenada, 1983.
