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Tobacco Candy: 1940
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Japanese Tommy: 1860
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 10:38pm.
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The American minstrel performer Japanese Tommy, aka Thomas Dilward, circa 1860. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. View large as life.
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The Dream: 1909
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"See what Prince will do for me." Prince Albert, Ida Cuthbertson's "famous educated horse." Brown Studio, Riverside, circa 1909. View full size.
Brooklyn Bridge: 1910
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High Voltage: 1942
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June 1942. Working on power transmission and utility lines near the TVA hydro- electric plant at Chickamauga Dam or Douglas Dam, Tennessee. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information.
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Civil War Signal Tower: 1864
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 6:09am.
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia. Signal tower on left of the line near the Appomattox River. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Wet collodion glass plate. View full size | Even larger. Signal towers, employed by both the Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War to transmit coded messages, used flags by day and torches by night.
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Williamsburg Bridge: 1903
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