Popular Spotlights by dymaxion

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George H W Bush is pulled out of the ocean by the submarine USS Finback

Source WWII Submarine Patrol Reports

Created 11 Dec 2007 - 64 views this week (1,943 total)

"Rebel Barbarities in Texas from Sketches by Fred Sumner"

Source uploaded by gengal

Created 17 Oct 2008 - 15 views this week (127 total)

Fat Folks Reduced by Dr Snyder

Source News - The Chicago Tribune

Created 06 Oct 2008 - 10 views this week (162 total)

Bombed truck with its tire still burning: Hawaii 7 Dec 1941

Source WWII US Air Force Photos

Created 10 Jun 2008 - 9 views this week (246 total)

Melville's "well-known romance, 'Nobby Dick'"

Source News - The Chicago Tribune

Created 04 Oct 2008 - 9 views this week (135 total)

Singer's Midgets, German Sympathies or Sour Grapes?

Source FBI Case Files

Created 26 Jun 2007 - 8 views this week (1,392 total)

Frederick Douglass Passport Application

Source Passport Applications, 1795-1905

Created 01 May 2008 - 8 views this week (194 total)

1891 Chicago Tribune Reports Stage Coach Hold up near Redding, California

Source News - The Chicago Tribune

Created 05 Oct 2008 - 8 views this week (156 total)

Herman Melville Honored for Surviving his Work with Cannibals

Source News - The Chicago Tribune

Created 06 Oct 2008 - 8 views this week (267 total)

Contributions 1 comment

Paying for Alaska by Check

Source American Milestone Documents

Created 06 Jul 2007 - 7 views this week (13,639 total)

Contributions 5 comments

Japanese Troops Ride their Bikes into Singapore

Source Photos - WW II Japanese

Created 25 Jun 2007 - 6 views this week (1,454 total)

Contributions 1 comment

Helen Keller Birthday Quote

Source News - Halifax Gazette (Halifax Co VA)

Created 13 Dec 2007 - 6 views this week (652 total)

Baseball in the Manzanar Interment Camp - 1943

Source uploaded by dymaxion

Created 27 Jun 2008 - 6 views this week (247 total)

WWI Biplane Graveyard

Source Gorrell's History - AEF Air Service

Created 08 Aug 2007 - 5 views this week (703 total)

WWI - Early Stitched Arial Photo of Romorantin and Gievres

Source Gorrell's History - AEF Air Service

Created 08 Aug 2007 - 5 views this week (592 total)

John Jay being a gracious diplomat

Source Domestic Letters of the Department of State

Created 07 Dec 2007 - 5 views this week (787 total)

Lincoln's signature

Source uploaded by chris

Created 25 Jun 2007 - 4 views this week (849 total)

An odd man investigated by the Bureau

Source FBI Case Files

Created 26 Jun 2007 - 4 views this week (646 total)

South Boston Paper Announces The Surrender of Japan

Source News - Halifax Gazette (Halifax Co VA)

Created 11 Jul 2007 - 4 views this week (622 total)

Contributions 1 comment

Eyewitness Description of the First Atomic Blast

Source uploaded by dymaxion

Created 16 Jul 2007 - 4 views this week (581 total)

Contributions 1 comment

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