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legrandcirque ยท 13 years ago
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J. Gurney & Son, Edwin Booth as William Shakespeare's Hamlet, ca. 1870.
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J. Gurney & Son, Edwin Booth as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, ca. 1870.
Source: Library of Congress
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M. P. Rice, Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, ca. 1869.
Source: Ohio Wesleyan University, Bayley Collection
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Mathew Brady, Junius Brutus Booth, ca. 1850.
Source: Library of Congress
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Left to right: John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth and Junius Booth, Jr. in Shakespeare's "Julius Caeser" at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, 1864.
Source: McClellan Collection, Brown University
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legrandcirque ยท 13 years ago
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Actor Jose Ferrer in costume at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ca. 1955.
Source: City of Toronto Archives
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James Lafayette, Ethiopian General & Governor of Harar, Ras Makonnen, on a visit to England for the Coronation of King Edward VII, 12 August 1902.
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Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, 1921.
Source: Library of Congress
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Rob Kaminer, Mary Leona Gage, 13 April 1965.
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Bass Strait, September 4, 1941. HMAS Sydney in the foreground escorting convoy US.12A, comprising the Queen Mary (right) and Queen Elizabeth, past Wilson's Promontory off the coast of Victoria, Australia.
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The British liner RMS Queen Mary arrives in New York harbor, 20 June 1945, with thousands of U.S. troops from Europe.
Source: US Navy
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legrandcirque ยท 13 years ago
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USS Lafayette after catching fire at New York harbor, 9 February 1942.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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Normandie, renamed USS Lafayette, lies capsized in the frozen mud of her New York Pier, 22 February 1942.
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The Grand Salon of the SS France (1912).
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The Mixed Salon aboard the SS France (1912).
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The Eaton's Santa Claus Parade on James Street, 1918, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At the end of the parade, Santa would climb from his float up a ladder into the Eaton's department store.
Source: Archives of Ontario
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The SS Eastland docked, ca. 1916.
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