History in Photographs

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Circa 1930's New York City Elevator Car Park

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1967 Syria A camp administered by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), for homeless Palestinian Arab refugees near Damascus. (For more info, read up on the 1948 Palestinian War, and the 1967 Six Days War.)

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1967 20yr old Kathrine Switzer made history when she defiantly became the first woman to officially run in the Boston Marathon. The official, Jock Semple, is trying to pull her off the course, while the other male runners try to prevent him from doing it.

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1946 An Austrian boy couldn't be more excited about his new shoes. (His first pair of new shoes that he can probably remember. I bet he hasn't known anything but war.)

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1916 Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her motor-scooter, travelling to work at offices in London where she was a supervisor. The scooter was a birthday present from her husband, the journalist and Liberal politician, Sir Henry Norman.

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1921 Hepburn Family Portrait. Left to Right: Katharine, Marion, Robert, Thomas, and Richard. Mrs, Hepburn is seated with daughter Margaret.

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1900 Belgian coal miners stuffed into lift.