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January
Street magicians perform in Ceylon, today’s Sri Lanka. Published in 1912. |
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February
Cannon-carrying Army trucks rumble through Lincoln Tunnel in midtown Manhattan in December 1937. |
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March
A redwood tree steams through California’s Humboldt County on a train to the sawmill in the early 1900s. |
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April
A benchload of gold bars is displayed at a mining company in Nome, Alaska. Published in 1914. |
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May
A state executioner in ceremonial armor attends a British celebration in India honoring the coronation of King Edward VII. Published in 1907. |
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June
Three kittens look at a giant grouper at Marineland, the world’s first “oceanarium,” opened in 1938 near St. Augustine, Florida. |
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July
Mill workers rally round the flag they made in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1914. |
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August
A man surrounded by sand sculptures sketches portraits of passersby in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Published in 1933. |
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September
Swiss physicists use wicker baskets and seat cushions as crash helments in 1931. |
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October
A roughly constructed Ferris wheel takes a spin in Elbasan, Albania, in 1924. |
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November
Boys balance sunglasses on the muzzles of their cart dogs in Sainte-Anne-de-Beauprè, Quebec, in 1934. |
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December photos 1 , 2
Britain’s King George V dines off fine china and linen in Nepal during a hunting expedition in 1911. |
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