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The United States Board of Tea Experts assembled for the first time since 1942 to set up minimum standards for the eight to ten different types of tea that will be coming into the country for the following year, Feb. 17, 1947 [1280x1039]
A photo of the aftermath of the bombing of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108. All 23 people on board were killed. The bombing was the first attack on civil aviation in North America, Quebec, 1949 [1200 x 954].
9-year old Eunice Winstead Johns and her husband, 22-year-old Charlie Johns, Sneedville, Tennessee, United States, 1937 [1200x1282]
Photographer Kohki Yamaguchi works with every kind of light to create dreamy scenes. Pick up some of his quick Lightroom tips to see how you can too.
"Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" Missouri family of five broken down on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange. February 1937 [4116 × 4336]
An 18 year old Alan Rickman, 1964.(640x613)
South Vietnamese National Army paratroopers surround Binh Xuyen rebels in front of Petrus Ky School on Cong Hoa Street during the Battle of Saigon on April 28, 1955. [960x936]
Titanic's Lifeboat 6 approaches the RMS Carpathia. It had room for 36 more people. April 15, 1912. [1200x664]
Bruce Lee with his first student Jesse Glover 1959. Jesse would also become Bruce's first assistant instructor in the US [543x689]
Polish women led to execution site in a forest near Palmiry village close to Warsaw. Woman in the foreground was identified after the war by her checked coat as Janina Skalska, age 38, miller's wife from Piaseczno. Palmiry, Poland, 1940. [900x625]
Kashmir Dal Lake, British Vogue 1956 [1200×1200]
A child soldier poses with a Libyan helmet, a cigarette and a Soviet-made AK-47 Kalashnikov on April 05, 1987 in Kalait (16th parallel), Chad, after the defeat of Libyan Army during the Chadian-Libyan conflict. (Photo by Dominique Faget) [564x846]
A lady with her horse on a snowy day, 1899. Photo by French photographer Félix Thiollier. [960x960]
Happy Jewish refugees aboard SS St. Louis cheer as their liner is allowed to berth at Antwerp, Belgium. Denied entry in Cuba, United States and Canada, many of the passengers would perish during the Holocaust. June 1939. [1200 x 875]
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1902-1912 Wells Fargo Express Wagon
Primo Carnera moves to a neutral corner as the referee begins to count over Ernie Schaaf in the 5th round at Madison Square Garden. Schaaf dropped after a terrific left to the face and his handlers were unable to revive him. He would die 4 days later (New York, NY 1933) [2867x2254]
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Yugoslav soldiers in Sinai peninsula Egypt, as part of a UN emergency force, January 1957 [254 × 366]
Polish woman and her grandchildren await evacuation to new homes in American Red Cross camp in Tehran. Polish refugees were former prisoners of gulags or forced settlers to Siberia evacuated by Polish Armed Forces in the West. Tehran, Iran, 1943. [408x599]
President John F. Kennedy leans over his desk in this iconic photo, dubbed "The Lonliest Job." February 11, 1961. [640x491]
1979: The last confirmed grizzly bear in Colorado, killed in self-defense mid-attack. [800x534]
A lifeboat from passing ship approaches the upside-down lifeboat from the Titanic disaster a few days earlier. Late April 1912. [2000x1532]
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A soup kitchen in Montreal at the height of the Great Depression, c. 1931. [1200 x 875]
Couple with Studio Spaniel Prop. Photo James Van Der Zee, Harlem, 1936 [1000 x 1243][OS]
Ted Kennedy with nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., Stowe, Vermont, March 29, 1964 [2359 x 1556]
French soldier and a sergeant British of the Royal Garrison Artillery toasting each other in French ration wine at Boezinge, 18th August 1917 [6080 x 4316]
Some of the survivors of the Titanic during the American inquiry into the disaster. The White Star Line's chairman, Bruce Ismay, is on the right, chewing a pen. Late April 1912. [808x511]
