Historical images - Images that made history

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Cop stops traffic in New York City so a mother cat holding a kitten can cross safely. C. 1925

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Eleven iron workers sitting on a beam on their lunch break 800 feet above NYC working on what is now the RCA building. This image
began as a publicity stunt but became an iconic early symbol of the building boom at the height of American industrialization. 1932

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Grand Central Station. 1929
(It's no longer possible to see the light shining in because the surrounding buildings now block the sun.)

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A man browses for books in The Old Main Library of Cincinnati. The building was demolished in 1955 and today
an office building and a parking garage stand where it used to be.
 
One of the last known photos of Larry Fine and Moe Howard, ca. 1973.
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Mel Blanc's tombstone:
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Nintendo's staff during the trading card era.
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Original Nintendo HQ in Kyoto, some time after 1889 when it was founded.
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This picture actually is from 1889 according to this article about the history of Nintendo.
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/secret-history-nintendo-kyoto/ (archive)

Fun fact: Nintendo really hit the big time internationally when the grandson of Yamauchi (the founder) acquired the rights to put Disney characters on their playing cards.
 
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Photos from WW1.

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Private Ernest Stambash, Co. K, 165th Infantry, 42nd division, receives a cigarette from Miss Anna Rochester, American Red Cross volunteer at Evacuation Hospital No. 6 and 7, at Souilly, Meuse, France, on October 14, 1918.

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French soldiers stand in a relaxed group wearing medals. The medals appear to be the Military Medal, established on 25th March, 1916, for acts of bravery. They have probably been awarded for their part in the Battle of the Somme.

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A French officer has tea with English military personnel during World War I.

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French soldier whose face was mutilated in World War I, being fitted with a mask made at the American Red Cross studio of Anna Coleman Ladd.

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Western Front. A captured British soldier salvages the valuables of fellow Englishmen killed in battle, in April of 1918.
 
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Workers doing some final cleaning and assembling at Six Flags Jazzland just before its grand opening in 2000. The park closed permanently in 2005 after being destroyed by hurricane Katrina.
 
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