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  Island Belle

  
  Built in 1895 as Virginia; renamed Steel City, then East St. Louis. She was called Island Belle 1923-27, then renamed Greater New Orleans.

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  Tugela River, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Circa 1963.

  Making its spectacular plunge of 2,800 feet from the summit of Mont-aux-Sources.

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  Orson Welles arriving at the premiere of Citizen Kane at New York’s Palace Theater, 1941.

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  Weary after a third night of fighting against North Vietnamese troops, U.S. Marines crawl from foxholes located south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Vietnam, 1966. The helicopter at left was shot down when it came in to resupply the unit. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)

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  U.S. Post Office and Court House, Amarillo, Texas.

  Completed in 1938, by architect Wyatt C. Hedrick. Rectangular in plan and symmetrical in elevation, the building combines Classical and Renaissance Revival architecture with Art Deco and Moderne details of its time.

  Renamed the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building in 1980.

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  An Oasis in the Badlands, South Dakota. 1905.

  By Edward Sheriff Curtis.

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  Looking east down Hill Street in Mt. Adams, Cincinnati, OH. April 15, 1939.

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  Morano Calabro, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy. 1935/1936.

  By Aldo Mainieri. From the book “Attraverso l’Italia”, published in 1937 by Touring Club Italiano.

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  “The Wizard Tree”, Cathedral Woods, North Conway, White Mountains, New Hampshire. Circa 1900.

  Detroit Publishing.

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  Jack Delano, The waiting room of Union Station in Chicago, 1943.

  Source: hetasdames

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  black-white-reflections:

  Cary Grant

  (via estherand)

  Source: black-white-reflections

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  Man reading a newspaper on 6th Avenue on May 18, 1940.

  From the Library of Congress.

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  Manhattan skyline from Hudson River in 1901.

  Detroit Publishing Company

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  The Ohio River circa 1910. “Nightfall on the Ohio at Cincinnati.”

  Detroit Publishing Company

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  Manhattan Bridge under construction on June 5, 1908.

  Photo by Eugene de Salignac. From the Library of Congress.