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Time lapse.

Mount Vernon in dilapidated condition, with ships’ masts propping up the porch roof, 1858.

Restoration work began in the 1860s.

Mount Vernon, restored and resplendent for President Kennedy’s State Dinner in honor of the President of Pakistan, 1961.

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Time lapse.

Top left: Ford’s Theatre the morning after President Lincoln was shot, April 15, 1865.

Top right: Collapsed interior of the theatre, 1893.

Bottom left: Gutted interior during theatre restoration, 1967.

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Women.

Amund Rustebakke stands in the doorway while his wife and daughters display their spinning wheels, 1873.

Men.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh is celebrated in Los Angeles with a parade through downtown following his transatlantic flight, September 1927.

Time lapse.

The body of an unknown British soldier


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Time lapse.

Left: April 1860. After several failed efforts to establish a profitable business, Ulysses S. Grant moved his young family to Galena, Illinois, and went to work as a clerk in his father’s leather goods store, “Grant & Perkins.”

Right: March 1869. Grant is inaugurated as the 18th ...


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Girls.

The Dundee High School girls basketball team, 1908.

Boys.

At the amusement park, 1950s.

‘This land is your land, this land is my land.’

White segregationists throw stones at a bus carrying Freedom Riders, 1961, who were traveling through the Deep South to promote raci...


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