Echoes of Memory

Social Historian | Museum Educator

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Original copy of the Honolulu Star Bulletin from the U.S. Territory of Hawaii - Sunday, December 7, 1941.

Via Associated Press by Transpacific Telephone

"WAR! Oahu Bombed by Japanese Planes"

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 - President Roosevelt announced this morning that Japanese planes had attacked Manila and Pearl Harbor.

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With the original Berlin Wall behind it, this memorial at Bernauer Strasse holds photos of more than 130 who died at the Wall.

Photo: Gred Mitchell

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"Our Lady of the Snows", McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Photo: Alan Light

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Original letter of Abraham, son of Maimonides, found in the Cairo Geniza.

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Levashovo Memorial Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia, commemorating victims of political repression under Stalin.

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East German border guard Konrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire to defect to West Germany during construction of the Berlin Wall.

Photographer: Peter Leibing. 15 August 1961.

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/ Elliott Erwitt, Robert and Mary Frank, New York, 1950

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Buildings bricked up to form part of the Berlin Wall before the wall itself was built.

Eckhaus Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße, hier zur Bernauer Straße, Rosenthaler Vorstadt, Mitte, Berlin

Original photographer: unknown? Uploaded to Flickr by John Spooner