1955
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The Untouched Sanctuary: Albert Einstein’s Princeton Desk Hours After His Death
Photographed just hours after his passing on April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein’s Princeton office desk remains buried under the exact manuscripts, books, and unfinished equations left behind by the century’s greatest physicist.
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The Gentleman of Central Park: When a Clean-Shaven Fidel Castro Courted New York
Sitting on a wooden bench in Central Park in late 1955, a clean-shaven, suit-clad Fidel Castro looks more like a respectable young lawyer than a future communist revolutionary, capturing a fleeting moment of exile when his guerrilla war was still…
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Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn on a Mallorca Yacht: A 1955 Family Portrait
Aboard a yacht off Mallorca in 1955, young Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn pose in a summer portrait taken by their mother, the legendary high-society photographer Princess Marianne.