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1-SC-SU-001Anniversaries Armistice 1914-1918[1937]11/03/1938 -- Three out of five Canadians living today were born after 1900. To most of them the Great War is an impersonal memory, evoked in silence on Armistice Day when the nation pauses to honor the fallen, rededicate itself to peace. Pictured here is the ceremony before Toronto's cenotaph last year.
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1-SC-SU-002Anniversaries Armistice 1914-1918[1918]Nov 4 1929--How the boys in khaki joined in the g fun. The Armistice meant to them, the end of their service, and return to peaceful pursuits.
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1-SC-SU-003Anniversaries Armistice 1914-1918[1948]Feb 25, 1956--Banff, for picturesqueness, can match towns in Switzerland, even though Mont Blanc or the Matternhom are visible from them. As proof here's a breathtaking view and vista
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1-SC-SU-004Anniversaries Armistice 1914-1918[191-]Sep 15, 1958--Reducing the likelihood of flash snowslides by causing planned avalanches is only one of many safety techniques taught at the park wardens' training school at Banff, Alta. Above, a Canadian team, in circle, nears a part of Mt. Victoria where four Mexican climbers died in 1954
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1-SC-SU-005Anniversaries Armistice 1914-19181918When the news became generally known that the Armistice had been siged, the crowd went wild, as is shown in the photo taken in front of Le Matin on the Grand Boulevard. Paris, Seine, France Nov 11, 1918.
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1-SC-SU-006Anniversaries Armistice 1914-19181918Mar 10 1934 -- The Crosses, Row on Row-'Twas such a typical war cemetary as this, last resting place for thousands of valiant Canadians, which inspired Col. Mccrae's famous lines: "In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row." Beautifully landscaped and tended, these "acres of remembrance" will be a scene of sorrowful but proud pilgrimage for many a Canadian who visits France for the unveiling at Vimy and the later tour of the historic battlefields.
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1-SC-SU-007Anniversaries Armistice 1914-1918[194-]Nov 11 1957 -- 'So Died These Men' [Silhouette of soldiers on march with row of medals superimposed]
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1-SC-SU-008Anniversaries Armistice 1939-19451939Jun 2 1945 -- The Navy took control of proceedings in the Union Jack club in New York and right in the biggest U.S. port and in the shadow of the Brooklyn Naval Yard made the rafters ring with the strains of "Rule Britannia."
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1-SC-SU-009Anniversaries Armistice 1939-19451939May 9 1945 -- In the US it was a time of joy, of deep thought, too. But for the wounded veteran it was no celebration.
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1-SC-SU-010Anniversaries Armistice 1939-19451939Sep 22 1945 -- Largest crowd in history gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne to give thanks for the news that the war had ended. Special thanksgiving services were conducted.
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1-SC-SU-011Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]05/10/1945 -- Sailors Carry Beer from a looted Brewery
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1-SC-SU-012Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]05/10/1945 -- This is the interior wreckage of a store after the crowd got through
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1-SC-SU-013Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- GeneralDOUCETTE, Wilfred: Canadian[1945]06/02/1945 -- There were few stores in Halifax's main downtown shopping district that were not broken into. The crowd went after drygoods and even jewelry no less than wet goods. Thousands of dollars' worth of plate glass windows littered the sidewalks after protective barricades had been torn down. Later police made a house to house search for looted goods.
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1-SC-SU-014Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]06/02/1945 -- In the Exuberance of V-E Day Halifax crowds did incalculable damage to property. They overturned and set fire to this police car which responded to a call to deal with an attack on a street car. Several service personnel were recently sentenced to jail terms for their parts in the rioting. A brewery was looted of considerable stock, too, by crowds.
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1-SC-SU-015Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]06/02/1945 -- Not All Halifax people did their Victory celebrating in the glass-littered streets. The churches, though not packed to the doors, still had visitors. V-E Day for this worshipper was a matter for sadness and tears.
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1-SC-SU-016Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]Aug 1945 -- Liquor looting climaxes Halifax V-E Day. Halifax N.S…View of the scene in a Halifax street during the looting that climaxed the European victory celebration. Liquor stores were broken open and their contents looted by the celebrants. You can see some people with whole cartons of goods. The damage was attributed to mobs of sailors; some 4,000 of whom were on shore leave.
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1-SC-SU-017Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]06/02/1945 -- With Noisemaker and Union Jack this cute Ottawa youngster celebrated V-E Day on Parliament Hill. Where she heard Acting Prime Minister J. L. Ilsley speak.
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1-SC-SU-018Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]06/02/1945 -- Out in Regina Westerners reacted to the joyous news with typical western fervor. These young folks got behind a team and wagon and rode to the Regina celebrations with many flags and much cheering.
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1-SC-SU-019Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]06/02/1945 -- In National costume these pretty young ladies of the Russian-Canadian group took part in the celebrations at Regina. Above them flies the banner of the Soviet.
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1-SC-SU-020Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]All uniformed forces cadets, veterans of both wars were represented in the ceremony held at Ottawa's Parliament Hill. The red-coated band of the RCMP provided accompaniment to hymns sung by the crowd.
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1-SC-SU-021Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]06/02/1948 -- Vancouver's V-E Day brought forth this quartet of patriotic girls. While Canadians in other parts of the Dominion gathered for some-what chilly celebrations in local parks, the B.C. sun shine brightly.
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1-SC-SU-022Anniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]08/21/1945 -- Happy celebrants of the victory in Asia who here bang on drums, clash their cymbals and generally make merry are members of the chinese population of Vancouver. It's a colorful show as they use all their ancient pageantry to show their joy at Japan's defeat
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1-SC-SU-023-AAnniversaries Armistice 1939-1945- Canada- General[1945]08/16/1945 -- In Vancouver these happy Chinese, many of them in the native costume of their old land, sing joyously in the victory celebration at the coast. For them it relieved the tension of many years of war for their loved ones and friends in China
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1-SC-SU-023-BAnniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]05/07/1945 -- A sailor gets a resounding victory kiss.
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1-SC-SU-024Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]05/07/1945 -- A newsboy in Armor sells star extras.
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1-SC-SU-025Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]05/19/1945 -- News vendors were mobbed the moment papers hit the street, headline type shouting the glad tidings. This lad at King and Bay took no chances and donned a suit of armor. Within minutes the extras had vanished.
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1-SC-SU-026Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]05/19/1945 -- Decked with yards of ticker tape, these girls were among the thousands who milled about the streets celebrating victory day. But there were sober moments, too, as at the city hall where a dense throng paused for a few minutes to sing O Canada and the hymn, O God Our Help in Ages Past. And as they sang one elderly woman wept silently.
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1-SC-SU-027Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970RUTHERFORD, George: Canadian?[1945]05/01/1945 -- The best news: A mammoth Star headline tells the story Toronto and the world had been waiting nearly six years to read, but now a reader fears that the anniversary is becoming less and less recongnized. How soon we forget such an epochal event, he says.
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1-SC-SU-028Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]05/07/1945 -- Papers containing the big news sold like hit cakes.
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1-SC-SU-029Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]May 6 1945 -- Happiness on the streets of Toronto on VE Day, Victory in Europe Day. The boys in uniform were the most popular people on VE Day. Here's an air force officer, who saw service overseas, exhibiting the real spirit of victory. And how!
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1-SC-SU-030Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]May 19 1945 -- Toronto workers had barely settled down… when the word of V-E Day …By the thousands they…the streets, littered within a…with miles of ticker tape. It…great day for the men in uniform.
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1-SC-SU-031Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]May 1945 -- [Handwritten description] Yonge at 7pm near Gerrard
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1-SC-SU-032Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]May 1945 -- [Handwritten description] City hall part of chorus
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1-SC-SU-033Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1945]05/09/1945 -- This little patriot peering so wistfully through the stalwart legs of the policeman was one of thousands of youngsters who joined grown-ups in a crowd of 20,000 at the civic service of praise and thanksgiving at the city hall cenotaph.
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1-SC-SU-034Anniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[194-]Nov 10 1947 -- Dead of two wars were honored at St. Paul's church, Bloor St. E., where two children are shown as they paused at cenotaph after wreath-laying ceremony Sunday.
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1-SC-SU-035-AAnniversaries Armistice-Canada-Toronto-Pre 1970[1959]Nov 11 1959 -- No rhyme or reason? It has for him. Deep in thought, George Conover, 73, pasuses to think of his fallen comrades of World War I. [incomplete]
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1-SC-SU-035-BAnniversaries - Armistice - 1939 - 1945-Great Britain[1945]05/01/1945 -- Amid all the joyous scenes of revelry accompanying London's long-awaited announcement of victory, a Canadian soldier, gets his V-Day kiss from a C.W.A.C. sweet-heart.
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1-SC-SU-036Anniversaries - Armistice - 1939 - 1945-Great Britain[1945]May 17 1945 -- Victory in Europe - the end of more than five years of death at home from bombs and in battlefields abroad for loved ones- brought this huge throng of happy Londoners into Piccadilly Circus to celebrate the total defeat of the hated Nazi foe.
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1-SC-SU-037Anniversaries - Armistice - 1939 - 1945-Great Britain[1945]Nov 12 1948 -- Honoring war dead of Britain was a solemn ceremony as remembrance day services were held in London's Whitehall, an area which suffered heavy damage during the blitz. This general view of the scene Sunday shows members of the three services lined up before the cenotaph. Britain's dead in the two world wars was well over 1,000,000.
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1-SC-SU-038Anniversaries - Armistice - 1939 - 1945-Great Britain[1946]Jun 10 1946 -- Marching proudly through London's flag-bedecked streets, these British airborne troops are seen on The Mall outside Buckingham palace. Civilian defence workers, nurses, firemen and police had their place in the parade and drew ecstatic cheers.
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1-SC-SU-039Anniversaries - Armistice - 1939 - 1945-Great Britain[1949]May 10 1949 -- Marking VE Day in London troops parade along the Mall from Trafalgar Square to Admiralty Arch. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders band is seen in centre.
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1-SC-SU-040Archaeology - Canada[193-]Aug 26 1936 -- [Handwritten description] Struthiomimus skeleton on slab
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1-SC-SU-041Archaeology - Canada[193-]Aug 26 1936 -- [Handwritten description] Palaeoscincus skeleton from the Cretaceous of the Red River, Alberta, Canada
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1-SC-SU-042Archaeology - Canada[193-]Aug 16 1941 -- The swivel, used probably for dog teams, resembles gadgets used by northern Asiatic peoples.
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1-SC-SU-043Archaeology - Canada[194-]06/29/1946 -- Amongst the hoo doos, or eroded dolomite shale formations, these amateur hunters are looking for fossilized skeletons and other petrified relics of the ages, millions of years ago, when dinosaurs and other giant lizards roamed the marshes at the edge of the great prehistoric sea that covered Alberta and the prairies. The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, has one of the world's best collections of such fossils.
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1-SC-SU-044Archaeology - CanadaHARRISION, Leo: Canadian (Freelanced for the Toronto Star in the 1950s)[195-]Aug 20 1954 -- The S-shape of the mound is shown by the dotted line. Prof. Carpenter, an anthropologist from the University of Toronto, can also be seen. The land, Chief Loucks says, was bought by the federal government for use by the Indians.
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1-SC-SU-045Abominable Snowman[195-]Jun 13 1956 -- Chief Pierre Louis of the Okanagan Indian band at Vernon who holds a story about Himalayan monsters which appeared in The Star Weekly, told of tales handed down by his tribe. One was about an Indian maiden kidnapped by snowmen.
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1-SC-SU-046Abominable Snowman[195-]Feb 23 1956 -- Abominable snowman as portrayed by Tibetan priest. While stories of the "snowman" have caught western imagination, there are other equally strange things to be found in nepal, including sharply contrasting tribes, unique animals.
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1-SC-SU-047Abominable Snowman[195-]Stamped: Wide World Photos
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1-SC-SU-048Archaeology -Canada- OntarioMCCUAIG, J.H.: Canadian (based in Toronto - 98A Church St.)[192-]Dec 12 1926 -- Bones unearthed came from Medical School. Rumours of the gruesome work of a second Dr. Landru or a Bluebeard were laid to rest when the bones, discovered at Adelaide and Peter Sts., where excavation is being carried on [incomplete]
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1-SC-SU-049Archaeology -Canada- Ontario[192-]Apr 15 1929 -- [Handwritten description] Arrow and spear heads found by members of 49th Boy Scout troop, Earls Court, near Port Credit cleaimed to be relics of Mississsuga Indians.
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1-SC-SU-050Archaeology -Canada- Ontario[194-]09/11/1946 -- Excavations by Royal Ontario Museum party have uncovered numerous human bones and valuable historical relics. It is believed site of early Huron village.
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1-SC-SU-051Archaeology -Canada- Ontario[194-]09/14/1946 -- Bones of Indians who may have lived their primitive lives around Orillia before Canada was touched by pale-face civilization, are being unearthed by experts at the bone pit site, near the old village of Cahiague. This complete skeleton was so fragile that a preserving solution was applied before its removal
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1-SC-SU-052Archaeology -Canada- Ontario[194-]10/12/1946 -- Kettles are imbedded in shale and are revealed by shoreline erosion.Carl C. Manore looks this one over at the Kettle Point Indian reservation. They are used to decorate neighborhood lawns
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1-SC-SU-053Archaeology -Canada- Ontario[194-]10/23/1948 -- Anthropology students are hard at work looking for relics of an Indian village which existed an estimated 450 years ago. The searchers are finding arrow heads, pipes, pottery and other clues to the early Ontario civiliation. The students operate the expedition themselves
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1-SC-SU-054Archaeology -Canada- Ontario[194-]09/14/1946 -- Prof. T. F. McIlwraith, assistant director of the Royal Ontario museum's archaeological department, is supervising the work of this scientific party. He is assisted by Miss Margaret Thompson of museum staff. Removal of the soil is a painstaking task
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1-SC-SU-055Archaeology -Canada- Ontario[195-]May 21 1954 -- A number of Indian carvings, ground out of limestone rock, have been discovered in the Peterboro area. Corrine Amos points to area where the important archeological carvings were found.
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1-SC-SU-056Archaeology - Egypt[194-]Apr 1947 -- The Queen took her servants to heaven. He was found posioned to attend the dead queen. This is one of the 26 Palace servants who were poisoned and buried with Queen Merneith, so they might accompany her in the solar bark. As provisions he took with the jar of wheat and the jar of wine seen with him in his grave.
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1-SC-SU-057Archaeology - Egypt[192-]Feb 8 1923 -- [Image of Egyptian mummy in sarcophagus]
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1-SC-SU-058Archaeology - Egypt[192-]Feb 3 1923 -- [Image of Egyptian relief sculpture depicting two figures with bird at centre]
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1-SC-SU-059Archaeology - Egypt[192-]Mar 1 1923 -- [Handwritten description] Amenothes & wife in Cairo museum
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1-SC-SU-060Archaeology - Egypt[192-]Apr 6 1923 -- "The Times" Official pictures of the Luxor Tomb: First detailed photographs of individual objects found in the first chamber. A life size wooden mummy of the King, for robing purposes. It is carved out of hard wood, painted and gilt; and is without doubt a portrait of the young King.
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1-SC-SU-061Archaeology - EgyptZuber, Rene: 1902-1979, French[193-]Jul 15 1939 -- The excavator's camp was a dither of excitement when this head was uncovered. It was slightly damaged by the thrust of a spade before it was removed.
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1-SC-SU-062Archaeology - EgyptZuber, Rene: 1902-1979, French[193-]Sep 23 1939 -- The French expedition was interested in today's Egyptians as well as yesterday's. A nurse is shown treating an eye disease.
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1-SC-SU-063Archaeology - Egypt[194-]Dec 30 1946 -- Silver sarcophagus of King Psusennes [incomplete]
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1-SC-SU-064Archaeology - Egypt[194-]Sep 17 1949 -- Tourists gather at the main gate of the temple of Edfu, the most perectly preserved of all Egyptian temples. It was dedicated to the god Horus and was completed in BC 42 after 195 years of construction.
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1-SC-SU-065Archaeology - Egypt[194-]Sep 17 1949 -- This sculpturea detail is on one of the walls of the Edfu temple and deals with the cult of the hawk headed diety Horus, who was regarded as a child of Isis and Osiris and as completing the Egyptian trinity. He was also worshipped as the rising sun.
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1-SC-SU-066Archaeology - EgyptWRIGHT, Hamilton: American[194-]Nov 5 1949 -- On a ram-headed sphinx along the Avenue of Sphinxes workers try a stone to see if it will fit. The work requires the replacing of thousands of fragments.
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1-SC-SU-067Archaeology - EgyptWRIGHT, Hamilton: American[194-]Apr 21 1951 -- Right, Dr. Mohammed Zacaria inspects three mummies of priests taken from burial rooms. Photos, Hamiliton Wright.
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1-SC-SU-068Archaeology - EgyptWRIGHT, Hamilton: American[194-][194-] -- [Image of Egyptian relief carving on column and wall]
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1-SC-SU-069Archaeology - Egypt[195-]Aug 21 1951 -- There's no end to archaeological discovery in Egypt. It has been an inexhaustable treasure-house. Above, workmen carry the last loads of gravel from an old tomb.
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1-SC-SU-070Archaeology - Egypt[195-]Apr 14 1951 -- Cleaning the hieroglyphics on the tombs of Pharoahs in Egypt's ancient Thebes is not a job for any charwoman but demands professional skill. [incomplete]
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1-SC-SU-071Archaeology - Egypt[195-]Aug 22 1953 -- Mummy of the lord chief justice was inside this sarcophagus of Saite period (663-5…) The stone is very hard and accuracy of the sculpture on the coffin is a sign of the efficiency of the people in those days.
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1-SC-SU-072Archaeology - Egypt[195-]Jan 26 1952 -- In Upper Egypt the ancient city Philae was partially submerged when the Assuan dam backed up the Nile. Above, what is called the "pylon of Isis" is viewed from the water level.
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1-SC-SU-073Archaeology - Egypt[195-]Jan 28 1952 -- Extreme skill is required for this Egyptian's work, for he is copying hieroglyphics from the stones of the temple of Karnak in the ancient city of Thebes. His copies must accurate.
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1-SC-SU-074Archaeology - Egypt[195-]Dec 29 1953 -- Workman brushes earth from a 3,800 year old wooden casket discovered during excavations at Sakara, by Dr. Zakaria Ghoneim, Egyptian archeologist.
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1-SC-SU-075Archaeology - Egypt[195-]Aug 28 1954 -- Little wooden figurines of maids-in-waiting are found in the tombs of the pharoahs. Each is an actual portrait of one of the royal attendants. The negro girl was probably brought as a slave from the wilds of central Africa as a child.
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1-SC-SU-076Archaeology - Egypt[195-]Jan 7 1958 -- The statue of Pharoah Rameses II (1324-1258 BC) dwarfs the people nearby.
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1-SC-SU-077Archaeology - Egypt[195-]May 19 1958 -- These two statues of Rameses are most intact of six which once stood at Luxor temple at Thebes. Others were mutilated.
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