The Associated Press has a deep well of photos chronicling historic moments. Their archives also contain everyday snapshots from the past.

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A steel worker rests on the 86th floor of the new Empire State Building during construction in New York City, September 24, 1930.

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A line of women rally for women's suffrage and advertise a free rally discussing women's right to vote in Washington, D.C. on October 3, 1915.

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Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 13th birthday on April 21, 1939.

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French women, exiled from their native Paris, celebrate Bastille Day in a London Park, July 14, 1942.

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Dorothy Counts, 15, the first black student to attend Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, is taunted by white students on September 5, 1957.

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A tearful Beatle lover pleads unsuccessfully with a policeman to carry her fan button to Ringo at a Beatles concert on September 4, 1964.

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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Roerich from Bavaria, Germany, look out from the stern of a boat carrying refugees in New York Harbor on October 28, 1956.

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A crowd rings in the new year on January 1st, 1938, at Broadway and Seventh Avenue.

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A drill instructor administers his brand of "shock" treatment to a new Marine recruit on October 20, 1971.

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Pope Paul VI looks over Saint Peter's square, which is filled with nearly half a million people listening to his Easter message on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966.