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Retro people2 viewsOriginal Caption: 10/31/1952-Washington,DC- President Harry S.Truman presents Bob Hope with a special scroll honoring the NBC star for his unparalled record of entertaining U.S. serviceman all over the world. The citation, which was presented at the White House, was signed by more than 1,000,000 GI's, Pres. Truman, Vice-President Barkley and all the Generals of the commands visited by Hope since 1941. The NBC comedian starts his new daily day time radio series 11/10. He also appears once a month on NBC-TV's "Colgate Comedy Hour".
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Retro people 2012 viewsEleanor Roosevelt acted as hostess for taping of the educational television symposium "Prospects of Mankind". The former First Lady was permanent hostess for the TV series. The wire on left side of her head is connected to a hearing aid.
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Retro people 3882 viewsOriginal Caption: Bertholt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist and poet. Head and shoulder photograph. BPA2# 4988
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Retro people 3892 viewsOriginal Caption: Seated portrait of Dr. Albert Michelson. Undated photograph.
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Retro people 3912 viewsOriginal Caption: 4/22/1936 - Editors- Here is a fighting pose of Jack Johnson when the negro was Heavyweight Champion of the World. This picture and others was sent to illustrate article no. 7 of the Damon Runyon series "the Secret of Joe Louis; Punching Power."
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Retro people 3972 viewsOriginal Caption: Painted portrait of Anne Boleyn (1507?-1536), second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Photo filed 11/18/1921.
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Retro people 3992 viewsOriginal Caption: Portrait of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher, in a fur coat. A painting by Schlesinger. Undated illustration.
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Retro people 4002 viewsRobert Louis Stevenson
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Retro people 4012 viewsOriginal Caption: 11/7/1928-New York, NY: Photo shows Arnold Rothstein at his desk, the noted gambler and sportsman , who was mysteriously shot whiile walking at Seventh Avenue, and 55th street at 11 o'clock last night. The man is in a critical condition at the Polyclinic hospital.
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Retro people 4112 viewsFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune, the Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, at the second National Conference on Negro Youth.
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Retro people 4132 viewsOriginal Caption: 3/21/1956-Montgomery, AL - Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy, indicted Negro leader, wears a jaunty air as he arrives at the courthouse here March 19th for the beginning of the bus boycott trial. Ninety-three Montgomery Negroes- including Abernathy -went on trial in a packed courtroom on charges of conspiracy growing out of a city-wide racial boycott of segregated city buses.
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Retro people 4722 viewsOriginal Caption: Cole Younger at the time of the trial. Photograph, 1876.
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ring of kerry ireland2 views
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