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Original caption: Professional frogman Courtney Brown tows a 55-foot scale model of the sunken liner Titanic during work on the film Raise the Titanic! (released in 1980.) The screen version of the best-selling novel by Clive Cussler dramatizes an attempt to raise the 46,000-ton wreck of the Titanic, which is 2 1/2 miles down on the floor of the North Atlantic. The model is described as “an exact replica costing $5,000,000.” (This replica ship still exists, rusting in bushes beside a water tank at the Malta Film Studios, visible on Google Maps.)
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Original caption: April 17, 1928—A novel hour of entertainment was recently presented to the radio audience of the nation with the inauguration of the Michelin Hour, presented by the rubber tire manufacturing concern. The orchestra’s members are attired in grotesque fashion, as shown above.
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U.S. Army men casually seated around a table as one on horseback jumps over the table.
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Original caption: Actor James Garner leads the pack of Formula Ones in a still from the 1966 film Grand Prix, the first film to capture the thrill of the track by mounting a camera on a car.
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Men and boys swarm over the wreckage of a train in Buckeye Park in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1896.
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Original caption: Ivan Unger, a member of the “Flying Black Nats” and Gladys Roy are shown playing tennis on the wings of an airplane in flight.
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Original caption: 1928—Gigantic flame and no smoke! A furious pillar of fire from an oil well causes tremendous losses at Santa Fe Springs, California. The terrific blaze following the blow in of the Bell View No. 1 well in a fabulous rich field. The intense heat has spread destruction to adjacent derricks and the loss has already reached hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is the second severe fire in the field.
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Original caption: Oldriev’s new tricycle. Photo by Chas. W Oldrieve, 1882.
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Original caption: November 3, 1957, Moscow, Russia—Called an experienced astronaut, Malyshka, a Russian space dog, poses here in its snug-fitting space suit with a transparent space helmet beside it. Meanwhile, the newly launched Soviet satellite, Sputnik II, circles the earth, carrying what is reported to be a female husky dog, the first living being to roam space.
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Original caption: Du Mont engineer James A. Craig demonstrates a simple dialing procedure on a completely automatic “dial-direct” mobile two-way radiotelephone system in Clifton, New Jersey, on March 28, 1957. The system, presently used by the Richmond Radiotelephone Service, Inc., is manufactured by Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., and is the first radiotelephone equipment to allow phone calls to and from vehicles to be relayed completely unattended through local telephone companies.
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Original caption: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), naturalized American physicist, sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory with his “magnifying transmitter” in 1899.
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Original caption: Los Angeles, California, ca 1929—This Looks More like the Loop the Loop. Here’s a humpy highway for meandering motorists. It was designed and built by Harry Rocks in Los Angeles, who calls it an “auto thriller” and its unique construction affords a novel trip of 2,400 feet for the autoist who drives his car over its undulating surface. It is shaped like a “U” and supports a speed of 40 miles an hour, although some of the “humps” are ten feet high. This general view of the highways shows the size and construction of his “auto thriller.”
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Original caption: Surprised spectators look on in amazement as Miss Beth Pitt takes her pet fawn, Star Message, for a walk in midtown New York on November 16, 1942. Earlier in the day Miss Pitt paid a fine of $2 in court for letting her pet to roam free in Central Park.
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Original caption: Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly celebrates Friday the 13th in October of 1939 by standing on his head on a board stuck out from the 54th floor of the Chanin Building, and dunking doughnuts over Manhattan.
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Snowcat over a crevasse, Antarctica, during the 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
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Original caption: An army Sikorsky R-5 helicopter undergoing record trials demonstrates its lifting power by carrying 17 persons and pilot aloft as female onlookers wave in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on January 10, 1946. During the tests, records were claimed for altitude speed and both altitude and speed with payload.
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Original caption: May 8, 1941, New York, La Guardia Field. No, these are not men from Mars, but TWA mechanics and inspectors with propeller hub caps over their heads as they go about spring overhauling chores on the giant transport planes at the airport.
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Original caption: July 12, 1922—Bathing beauties being arrested for defying a Chicago edict banning abbreviated bathing suits on beaches.
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Original caption: Future speed demons. At the wheels of their one-horsepower specials, speed aces of 1950 roar around the Indianapolis Speedway, at a 20-mile-an-hour speed.
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