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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding.
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Staged Hijacking Scene

Date: 1939
Description: Men hold guns up to the driver of an International D-40 truck marked "Decatur Fast Freight" in a hijacking scene staged by the Chicago Police Department. A...
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Bernice Johnston Death

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: County Traffic officers, E. W. Kelzenberg and Emil Schmale, and Evan Chambers of the state crime laboratory looking at the death scene of Bernice Johnson. ...
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Bernice Johnston Death

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned....
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Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
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Refugees after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: A crowd of pedestrians, trucks, and cyclists on a road waiting to go through an arch in a damaged building amid the post-Tet destruction in Hue.
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Street Scene after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view of refugees after the Tet Offensive, camped out front of their damaged homes. Although not identified, it is believed the image is a street s...
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Dead Body of Schuyler Gates

Date: 09 1869
Description: Stereograph image of the body of Schuyler Gates near the mouth of Hurlbut Creek. The body is laying between the ruts of a rugged dirt road.
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Esmes

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View down road leading to what is left of Esmes. Caption reads: "What is left of Esmes. Notice the shell-packed road and the concrete water trough."

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