One Times Square, Under Construction in New York City (1903)

Ruins of the Chicago Fire (1871)

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A Bustling Downtown Detroit, Michigan (1916)

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View of the Hotel Pontchartrain and Cadillac Square
A Vertical Parking Lot in Chicago (1932)

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Park Avenue, New York City (1964)

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The Aftermath of a Detonated Truck Bomb on Wormwood Street in London (April 1993)

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The Draining and Cleaning of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy (1956)

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Big Ben from the Inside - London, England (1920)

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Dakota Internment Camp, Fort Snelling, Minnesota (1862)

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Explosion During the Battle of Dublin (June 1922)

Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans (1880s)

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A less famous picture of the Rockefeller Center Workers shown in "Lunch atop a Skyscraper", New York City (1932)

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German Soldiers Watching the Bombing of Rotterdam, Netherlands (May 1940)

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The Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. (1917)

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Work is underway to turn this site into a 2,000-foot-long reflecting pool.
Iron Worker in Chicago, Illinois (1969)

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The Ruins of Warsaw, Poland (1945)

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Moving a 7,600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Romania (1987)

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First Photograph of a Person in Paris, France (1838)

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Tokyo, Japan after World War II (1945)

Oldest Known Photograph of New York City, Showing the Upper West Side (1848)

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Oldest Aerial Photograph of Boston, Massachusetts (1860)

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Taken from a balloon at 2,066 feet in the air.
First Known Picture of Denver, Colorado (1860)

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The First Rockefeller Christmas Tree, New York City (1931)

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