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  1. Édouard Baldus

    1813 – 1889

    Posted in Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée, Flood, France.
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    Solomon Nunes Carvalho

    1815 – 1897

    Posted in Rail.
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    John Jex Bardwell

    Posted in Chicago, Pullman.
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  4. 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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  5. Paul-Émile Miot

    1827 – 1900

    Websites
    Paul-Émile Miot, Photographer of Atlantic Canada exhibit at Memorial University of Newfoundland

    Posted in Fishing, French Polynesia, Mik'maq, Newfoundland, Tahiti.
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  6. Carelton E. Watkins

    1829 – 1916

    Posted in Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Yosemite.
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    John Moran

    1829 – 1902

    Posted in Panama Canal.
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    William Bell

    1830 – 1910

    Websites
    Luminous Lint interview w descendent Barbara Wells

    Posted in 1846 - 48 Mexican - American War, 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Grand Canyon, Rail.
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    William D. McPherson

    Websites
    article by Frank H. Goodyear, III at click! photography changes everything at the Smithsonian Photography Initiative

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Slaves.

  10. Robert Howlett

    1831 – 1858

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War, Shipping.
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  11. Timothy O’Sullivan

    1840 – 1882

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Canyon de Chelly, El Morro, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Mohave, Navajo, Rail.
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  12. Hippolyte Arnoux

    Websites
    Napolean.org

    Posted in Egypt, Suez Canal.

  13. George Bell

    Posted in Forestry + Lumber, New Guinea, Sydney.
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    Dr. William A. Bell

    1841 – 1920

    Posted in Rail.

  15. H. H. Bennett

    1843 – 1908

    Posted in Dells of the Wisconsin River, Forestry + Lumber, High Speed, Rail.
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  16. W.H. Jackson

    1843 – 1942

    Posted in Colorado, Columbian Exposition, México, Montana, Union Pacific, Utah, Ute, Wyoming, Yellowstone.
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    H. R. Koopman

    Posted in Pullman.

    William Goodridge

    1846 – 1890

    Posted in Forestry + Lumber, Rail.
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  19. Ottomar Anschütz

    1846 – 1907

    Posted in Aerospace, Biomechanics, Motion.
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  20. Alexander Graham Bell

    1847 – 1922

    Posted in Aerospace.
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  21. John C. H. Grabill

    Born: 1850

    Posted in Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad, Homestake Mining Company, Miniconjou, South Dakota, Wyoming.
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    C.G. Atkins

    Posted in Fishing, Maine.

    J. W. Taylor

    Posted in Pullman.

    T. S. Johnson

    Posted in Pullman.

  25. Abel Briquet

    Posted in México, Mexican National Railway.
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  26. Eduard Spelterini

    1852 – 1931

    Posted in Giza Necropolis, South Africa's gold mines, Switzerland.
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  27. F. J. Haynes

    1853 – 1921

    Posted in Nez Perce, Rail, Yellowstone.
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    Laton Alton Huffman

    1854 – 1931

    Posted in Ranching.

  29. William Herman Rau

    1855 – 1920

    Websites
    Caribbean Photo Archive at Flickr

    Posted in 1880 - 81 Boer War #1, 1898 Spanish American War, Egypt, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia.
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  30. William N. Jennings

    1860 – 1946

    Posted in Lightning, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia.
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    Wylie Dennison

    Posted in Pullman.

  32. George M. Weister

    1862 – 1922

    Posted in - Native American Boarding Schools, Fishing, Forestry + Lumber, Oregon.

  33. 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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  34. Anders Beer Wilse

    1865 – 1949

    Posted in 1899 - 1902 Philippine–American War, Alaska, Fishing, Inuit, Klondike Gold Rush, Makah, Norway, Seattle, Shipping.
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    Frederic Morton Chamberlain

    1867 – 1921

    Posted in Alaska, Arizona, California, Fishing.
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  36. Carl Hohl

    Posted in German Cameroon, Oil, Telegraphy.
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    H.D. Chichester

    1871 – 1911

    Posted in Alaska, Fishing.
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  38. Asahel Curtis

    Born: 1874

    Posted in Fishing, Forestry + Lumber, Gold, Seattle, Washington.

  39. Lewis Hine

    1874 – 1940

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Child Labor, Drought, NYC 1930s, Pittsburgh, Steel.
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  40. August Sander

    1876 – 1964

    Posted in -WORKERS, Germany.
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    John P. Van Vorst

    1880 – 1957

    Posted in Pullman.

  42. Walter L. Huber

    Born: 1883

    Posted in California, Dams + Canals.

  43. Charles Sheeler

    1883 – 1965

    Posted in Automotive.

  44. George W. Ackerman

    1884 – 1962

    Posted in Agriculture.
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  45. Aldo Leopold

    1887 – 1948

    Posted in Agriculture, Arizona, Fishing, Forestry + Lumber, Hunting + Trapping, Iowa, New Mexico, Wisconsin.
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  46. Hannah Höch

    1889 – 1978

    Posted in Beauty + Fashion.
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    Rufus Ribble

    1890 – 1960

    Posted in Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, West Virginia.
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    W. J. Moore

    Websites
    Moore Panoramic Photographs at flickr

    Posted in Shipping, Vancouver.
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  49. Alexandr Rodchenko

    1891 – 1956

    Posted in White Sea-Baltic Canal.
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  50. Laura Gilpin

    1891 – 1979

    Posted in Aerospace, Navajo, Pueblo.
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  51. Berenice Abbot

    1898 – 1991

    Posted in Automotive, Literature, Maine, NYC 1930s, Painters + Sculptors.
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  52. A.P. Kurilovich

    Posted in Enisei, Fishing, Hunting + Trapping, Samoedy, Siberia.
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  53. N.P. Naumov

    Posted in Dolgans, Enisei, Fishing, Hunting + Trapping, Samoedy, Siberia.
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  54. N.A. Ostroumov

    Posted in Dolgans, Enisei, Fishing, Hunting + Trapping, Luraki, Samoedy, Siberia.
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  55. N.V. Sushilin

    Posted in Enisei, Fishing, Hunting + Trapping, Siberia.
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  56. L.V. Girshfel’d

    Posted in Enisei, Hunting + Trapping, Siberia.
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    Dmitri Kessel

    1902 – 1995

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 - 49 Greek Civil War, China, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.

  58. Edwin Rosskam

    1903 – 1985

    Posted in Oil, Puerto Rico.
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  59. Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton

    1903 – 1990

    Posted in EG&G, High Speed, Motion, Strobe, Underwater.

  60. Russell Lee

    1903 – 1986

    Websites
    U Texas

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, CB&Q Railroad, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Texas, WWII Japanese American internment.
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  61. Margaret Bourke-White

    1904 – 1971

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 Great Calcutta Riot, Fauxtography, India, Nazi Concentration Camps, Pakistan, Steel.
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  62. Todd Webb

    1905 – 2000

    Posted in France, Oil, Pacific Theater.
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    Ralston Crawford

    1906 – 1978

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

  64. Hansel Mieth

    1909 – 1998

    Websites
    Independent Lens doc

    Posted in Homeless, Labor Union, WWII Japanese American internment.

  65. Milton Rogovin

    1909 – 2011

    Posted in Appalachia, Buffalo, Chile, Iroquois, México, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Storefront Churches.
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  66. Alfred T. Palmer

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Douglas Dam, Tennessee.
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  67. 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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  68. Richard Harrington

    1911 – 2005

    Websites
    Harrington photographs at Feheley Fine Arts

    Posted in Dené, Fishing, Hunting + Trapping, Inuit.
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  69. Berlyn Brixner

    1911 – 2009

    Posted in Trinity test.
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  70. 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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  71. Sid Grossman

    1913 – 1955

    Posted in Labor Union, NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s.
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  72. Sol Libsohn

    1914 – 2001

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Circus + Fairs, Guatemala, NYC 1930s, Oil, Trucking.
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  73. Winston O. Link

    1914 – 2001

    Posted in Rail.

  74. Jack Delano

    1914 – 1997

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Rail.
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  75. 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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  76. Harold Corsini

    1919 – 2008

    Posted in Pittsburgh, Steel.
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    Bill Taub

    1920 – 2010

    Websites
    Video at Apple.com

    Posted in Aerospace, High Speed, Rail.
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  78. Stuart Udall

    1920 – 2010

    Posted in Glen Canyon Dam - Lake Powell.
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    James P. Kerlin

    Died: 1991

    Posted in Aerospace, African-American Civil Rights Movement.
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    Ernie Stutkus

    Posted in Pullman.

    Melvin C. Horn

    Posted in Pullman.

  82. George Hunter

    Born: 1921

    Posted in Canada, Coal, Fishing, Hunting + Trapping, Inuit.
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  83. Esther Bubley

    1921 – 1998

    Posted in CB&Q Railroad, Medicine, Pittsburgh, WWII - Homefront (U.S.).
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  84. Erich Hartmann

    1922 – 1999

    Posted in France, Nazi Concentration Camps, Saint Lawrence Seaway.
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  85. Richard Avedon

    1923 – 2004

    Posted in Beauty + Fashion, Heads of State, Hollywood, Jazz.
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  86. Jack Aeby

    Born: 1923

    Posted in Trinity test.

    Ted Streshinsky

    Died: 2003

    Posted in Labor Union.
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    Barbara P. Norfleet

    Born: 1926

    Posted in Military.

  89. Richard Steinheimer

    1929 – 2011

    Posted in California, Rail.

  90. Ernest Lowe

    Born: 1930

    Posted in Agriculture, California, Migrant Labor.

    George Ballis

    Born: 1930

    Posted in California, Migrant Labor.
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  92. Paul Fusco

    Born: 1930

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, Kentucky, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.
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    James Karales

    1930 – 2002

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Ohio.

  94. "Flip" Graeme Phelps Schulke

    1930 – 2008

    Posted in Aerospace, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Cuba, Germany > U.S., Minnesota, Underwater.
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    J. O’Barski

    Posted in Pullman.

  96. Jim Blair

    Born: 1931

    Posted in Coal, Islam, South Africa.
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  97. Bernt Becher

    1931 – 2007

    Posted in Germany, INDUSTRY.

  98. William Gedney

    1932 – 1989

    Websites
    Duke University

    Posted in India, Kansas, Kentucky, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Music, NYC 1950s, NYC 1960s, NYC 1970s, San Fransisco.

  99. David Plowden

    Born: 1932

    Posted in Rail, Steel.

  100. Steve Schapiro

    Born: 1936

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Arkansas, Migrant Labor.