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Child's waitress demonstrates how to flip the pancake onto the plate
(Ralph Morse. 1950)
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The Usual Suspects
Lower East Side in 1965
PHOTO: Beuford Smith
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The NYC Housing Authority's Alfred E. Smith Houses, in the Two Bridges neighborhood of the Lower East Side, opened in 1953. It was an early proponent of racial integration. Here, Black and White kids in one of the playgrounds, May 3, 1956.
Photo: Associated Press
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First photograph of animals taken at night by wildlife enthusiast George Shiras, ca. 1906.
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Jerry Cooke. Light streams into Grand Central Terminal through a large window. New York City, 1940.
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New York in the 70s
This brings back memories.
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Sam Cooke recording at RCA Studios, 1959
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Woody Guthrie serenading New Yorkers on a subway train, 1943. The sign on his guitar reads, “This machine kills fascists.”
Photo: Eric Schaal for Life magazine via Index.hu
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The Apollo 11 Command Module, Columbia, is hoisted aboard the USS Hornet by the recovery team. Operations were conducted about 800 miles southwest of Hawaii on July 25, 1969. The astronauts were already in quarantine by this point.
The barrel: girls in silhouette, running through a spinning barrel ride at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 1939 - by Andrew Herman, American
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Boston Quincy market postcard from 1977. @postcardtimemachine
I don't think I've ever seen a photo of Quincy Market from the time after the renovation to the festival marketplace but before the construction of the Marketplace Center.
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New York in the 70s
This brings back memories.
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William Gottleib Dizzy Gillespie at the Corner of 52nd St and 6th Avenue, New York City c.1946
“It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” Dizzy Gillespie
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Babe Ruth and Shoeless Joe Jackson, September 1920
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The barrel: girls in silhouette, running through a spinning barrel ride at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 1939 - by Andrew Herman, American