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This Ford Model T descending a hill in San Francisco, 1921:

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Two young women in Omaha, Nebraska, before competing in a Native American-only beauty contest in Pendleton, Oregon, 1924:

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A mother and her two children after the corn harvest in Nebraska, 1924:

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Japanese school girls wearing protective masks to guard against the influenza outbreak, 1920:

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Two boys sharing candy on a New York street, circa 1925:

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Iron workers for the new telephone company skyscraper at Vesey Street, perched on a girder 20 stories in the air and enjoying their lunch, unconcerned about the 20-story drop below:

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The first-ever Olympic Village, built for the 1924 games in Paris:

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American gymnasts during practice stunts at the 1924 Paris Olympics:

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Three individuals of the Yaghan people, indigenous peoples of the Southern Cone, who are regarded as the southernmost peoples in the world, Tierra del Fuego, 1920

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1923 portrait of Bessie Coleman , a Black American woman who wanted to learn to fly,…