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  1. Franz Hanfstaengl

    1804 – 1877

    Posted in Classical, Heads of State, Munich.
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  2. Josiah Johnson Hawes

    1808 – 1901

    Posted in Heads of State.
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  3. Julia Margaret Cameron

    1815 – 1879

    Websites
    Dimbola Lodge

    Posted in Heads of State, Sri Lanka.
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  4. Félix Nadar

    1820 – 1910

    Posted in Heads of State, Paris.
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  5. Alexander Gardner

    1821 – 1882

    Websites
    Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War exhibition at Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Brule Sioux, Caddo, Delaware, Fauxtography, Heads of State, Kiowa, Mug Shots, Penateka Comanche, Rail.
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    Ivan Szabo

    1822 – 1858

    Posted in Edinburgh, Portraits of Photographers.
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    George Herbert Watkins

    Born: 1828

    Websites
    National Portrait Gallery

    Posted in Heads of State.
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  8. Gertrude Käsebier

    1852 – 1934

    Posted in Dakota, Painters + Sculptors.
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  9. Thomas Andrew

    1855 – 1939

    Posted in Mau, Samoa, Tattoo.
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  10. Charles Kerry

    1857 – 1928

    Posted in Aboriginal Australians, Boxing, Skiing, Sydney.

  11. Frances Benjamin Johnston

    1864 – 1952

    Websites
    Exhibit and links at Clio
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Collection

    Posted in Hampton University, Heads of State, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Tuskegee, Virginia.
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  12. Arnold Genthe

    1869 – 1942

    Posted in China > North America, Earthquakes, Fauxtography, Heads of State, San Fransisco.
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  13. Jessie Tarbox Beals

    1870 – 1942

    Websites
    Collection at the New York Historical Society

    Posted in Boston, Heads of State, Housing, NYC 1910s.

  14. Carl Van Vechten

    1880 – 1964

    Posted in Harlem Renaissance.

  15. Arthur P. Bedou

    1881 – 1966

    Posted in Jazz, New Orleans.

  16. Imogen Cunningham

    1883 – 1976

    Websites
    Granddaughter Meg Partridge's site

    Posted in Botany, Portraits of Photographers.
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  17. Margrethe Mather

    1886 – 1952

    Posted in Portraits of Photographers.

  18. Erich Salomon

    1886 – 1944

    Posted in Heads of State.
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  19. James Van Der Zee

    1886 – 1983

    Posted in Harlem Renaissance, New York City.
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  20. Hugo van Wadenoyen

    1892 – 1959

    Posted in Cheltenham, Portraits of Photographers.
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  21. Basil Rathbone

    1892 – 1967

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Hollywood.
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  22. Trude Fleischmann

    1895 – 1990

    Posted in Dance, Vienna.

  23. László Moholy-Nagy

    1895 – 1946

    Posted in Berlin, University of Oxford.
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  24. Alfred Eisenstaedt

    1898 – 1995

    Websites
    Digital Journalist

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Atomic Bombings, Heads of State, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.

  25. Berenice Abbot

    1898 – 1991

    Posted in Automotive, Literature, Maine, NYC 1930s, Painters + Sculptors.
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  26. Weegee

    1899 – 1968

    Posted in CRIME, Hollywood, Post-mortem.
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    Charles Peterson

    1900 – 1976

    Websites
    Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson at Amazon

    Posted in Jazz, NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s.
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  28. Émile Savitry

    1903 – 1967

    Posted in Jazz, Paris, Visual Arts.
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    Ralston Crawford

    1906 – 1978

    Posted in Bikini Atoll, Jazz, Marshall Islands, New Orleans.

    James Latimer Allen

    1907 – 1977

    Posted in Harlem Renaissance.
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  31. Francis Wolff

    1907 – 1971

    Websites
    Buy archival prints at Mosaic Records

    Posted in Jazz.
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  32. Toni Frissel

    1907 – 1988

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Music, Tuskegee Airmen.
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    John Swope

    1908 – 1979

    Posted in Civilians, Hollywood, WWII - Aftermath.
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  34. Charles "Teenie" Harris

    1908 – 1998

    Posted in Negro League, Pittsburgh.

  35. Gisèle Freund

    1908 – 2000

    Posted in Germany, Heads of State.

  36. Yousuf Karsh

    1908 – 2002

    Posted in Heads of State, Hollywood.

  37. Herbert von Karajan

    1908 – 1989

    Posted in Classical.
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  38. Milt Hinton

    1910 – 2000

    Posted in Jazz.
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  39. Eliot Elisofon

    1911 – 1973

    Websites
    Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art

    Posted in Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Canary Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Coal, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, New Jersey, Niger, Nigeria, North African Theater, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, soukous, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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  40. Louis Klemantaski

    1912 – 2001

    Websites
    Obituary at The Telegraph

    Posted in Car Racing.
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  41. Eve Arnold

    1912 – 2012

    Posted in Afghanistan, African-American Civil Rights Movement, China, England, Hollywood, Migrant Labor, NYC 1940s, South Africa, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  42. John Deakin

    1912 – 1972

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Art, Paris, Rome.
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    Andre de Dienes

    1913 – 1985

    Websites
    http://www.staleywise.com/collection/de_dienes/de_dienes_vintage.html

    Posted in Hollywood.

  44. Sol Libsohn

    1914 – 2001

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Circus + Fairs, Guatemala, NYC 1930s, Oil, Trucking.
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    Yoichi R. Okamoto

    1915 – 1985

    Posted in Munich, Official White House Photographer, Washington DC.
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  46. Genevieve Naylor

    1915 – 1989

    Posted in 1950 - 53 Korean War, Brazil, Jazz.
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  47. Peter Gowland

    1916 – 2010

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Hollywood.

  48. William P. Gottlieb

    1917 – 2006

    Websites
    Another Library of Congress site
    Gottlieb on flickr

    Posted in Jazz.
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    Fabian Bachrach

    1917 – 2010

    Posted in Heads of State, Pacific Theater.

  50. W. Eugene Smith

    1918 – 1978

    Websites
    Memorial Fund

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Jazz, Medicine, Minamata, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pittsburgh, Spain.
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  51. Arnold Newman

    1918 – 2006

    Posted in Heads of State.

  52. Cornell Capa

    1918 – 2008

    Posted in 1967 Arab Israeli War, Argentina, Heads of State.
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  53. Sid Avery

    1918 – 2002

    Posted in European Theater, Hollywood.
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  54. Charlotte Brooks

    Born: 1918

    Posted in Education, Medicine + Disease.
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  55. Roy DeCarava

    1919 – 2009

    Posted in Jazz, NYC 1950s.
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  56. Allan Grant

    1919 – 2008

    Posted in Heads of State.

  57. Robert Hupka

    1919 – 2001

    Posted in Classical.

  58. Phil Stern

    Born: 1919

    Posted in Hollywood, Jazz, North African Theater.
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  59. Cecil Stoughton

    1920 – 2008

    Posted in Heads of State.
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    Carole Reiff

    Posted in Jazz.

  61. Esther Bubley

    1921 – 1998

    Posted in CB&Q Railroad, Medicine, Pittsburgh, WWII - Homefront (U.S.).
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  62. Joe O’Donnell

    1922 – 2007

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Fauxtography, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Official White House Photographer, Pacific Theater.
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  63. George Pickow

    1922 – 2010

    Posted in Folk, Jazz, Visual Arts.
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    Bob Thiele

    1922 – 1996

    Posted in Jazz.

  65. Ernest Withers

    1922 – 2007

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Memphis, Negro League.
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    David Gahr

    1922 – 2008

    Posted in Art, Folk.

  67. Bob Parent

    1923 – 1987

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Jazz.

  68. Herman Leonard

    1923 – 2010

    Posted in Jazz.
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  69. Richard Avedon

    1923 – 2004

    Posted in Beauty + Fashion, Heads of State, Hollywood, Jazz.
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  70. Fred J. Maroon

    1924 – 2001

    Posted in Egypt, Heads of State, NYC 1950s, Washington DC.
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    Burt Goldblatt

    1924 – 2006

    Posted in Jazz.
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    Jane Brown

    Born: 1925

    Websites
    Guardian article

    Posted in Heads of State.

  73. Joe Alper

    Born: 1925

    Posted in Folk, Jazz, NYC 1960s.

    Lawrence N. Shustak

    1926 – 2003

    Posted in Jazz.

  75. Moneta Sleet, Jr.

    1926 – 1996

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Alabama, Heads of State.
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  76. William Claxton

    1927 – 2008

    Posted in Jazz.

  77. Hugh Bell

    Born: 1927

    Posted in Jazz, Spain.

  78. Bob Willoughby

    1927 – 2009

    Posted in Hollywood, Ireland, Jazz, Los Angeles.

  79. Reid Miles

    1927 – 1993

    Posted in Jazz.
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  80. Esmond Edwards

    1927 – 2007

    Posted in Jazz.

    Charles Brittin

    Born: 1928

    Posted in Art, Los Angeles.
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  82. Hugh Bell

    Born: 1928

    Posted in Jazz.

  83. Dennis Stock

    1928 – 2010

    Posted in Hawaii, Jazz.
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  84. Bob Weinstock

    1928 – 2006

    Posted in Jazz.

  85. Bert Stern

    Born: 1929

    Posted in 1950 - 53 Korean War, Hollywood.

  86. Roger Marshutz

    1929 – 2007

    Posted in 1950 - 53 Korean War, Jazz.
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  87. Bob Adelman

    Born: 1930

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Art, Jazz, NYC 1960s.

  88. Harry Benson

    Born: 1930

    Posted in Glasgow, Heads of State.

  89. Bill Francis

    1930 – 2010

    Posted in Jazz.
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    Jean-Claude Sauer

    Posted in 1954 - 62 Algerian War, 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, Heads of State.

    Claude Azoulay

    Posted in 1954 - 62 Algerian War, 1967 Arab Israeli War, Hollywood.

    Chuck Stewart

    Websites
    Chuck Stewart's Jazz Files book at Amazon

    Posted in Jazz.

    Jan Persson

    Posted in Jazz.

  94. Don Schlitten

    Posted in Jazz.

    Paul Weller

    Posted in Jazz.

    Woody Woodward

    Posted in Jazz.

    Frank Gauna

    Posted in Jazz.

    Charles Shabacon

    Posted in Jazz.

    Bob Ghiraldini

    Posted in Jazz.

    Bengt H. Malmqvist

    Posted in Jazz.