How Things Were

A look into the past through photography.

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Russian Imperial Romanov family (circa 1914)

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Thiers, France (1890-1900)

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The Singer Building in New York, demolished in 1967, was the tallest building in the world when it was built

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American soldier standing in the ruined Monument to the Battle of Nations in Leipzig, Germany (1945)

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A picture-perfect Marilyn Monroe with Joe DiMaggio (1953)

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John Lennon attempting to retrieve his guitar pick while in India (1968)

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President Lyndon B. Johnson at the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
― John F. Kennedy

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The 3245 year old seal on Tutankhamun's tomb before it was broken (1922)

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Swimmers at a Las Vegas hotel watch a mushroom cloud from an atomic test 75 miles away (1953)

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First aerial photograph of Lower Manhattan (1906)

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Ruins of Ctesiphon, Iraq (1932)

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Michael Jackson and the Reagans at the White House for the launch of a campaign against drunk driving (1984)

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Las Vegas (1906)

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Michael Jackson and the Reagans at the White House for the launch of a campaign against drunk driving (1984)

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Las Vegas (1906)

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Eugene Cernan on the surface of the moon (1972)

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President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany (April 1917)

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Tourists peer over a cliff into the Grand Canyon (1880)

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The thylacine, popularly known the Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to extinction in the 1930s