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No Peeking
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 9:35pm.
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Medical classroom, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Circa 1930s. View full size. (Warning - Not for the squeamish: See what's inside.)
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Anatomy Class: 1905
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 1:39pm.
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Follies Cooking: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 1:38pm.
New York, December 1924. "Greenwich Village Follies Cooking Class." George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Cooking for Boys
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 1:37pm.
Cooking Class for Men at the Pratt Institute with Miss Hanks and Miss Kierstead, circa 1917. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Wired: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 1:33pm.
Electricity Class at St. George's Evening Trade School, New York, circa 1910. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Mustangs: 1945
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 2:44am.
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P-51 Mustangs of the 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen). Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. View full size. Photograph by Toni Frissell.
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Ford's Theatre: 1860s
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 2:44am.
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Old Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865. View full size. Wet collodion glass plate. Photograph by Mathew Brady.
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