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The perfect pyramid
Members of Oregon’s Lake Oswego Water Ski Club flawlessly perform that favorite formation of the water ski show, the five-person pyramid. It’s 1960 and (from left) Gloria Larsen and Val Davidson ride on the shoulders of Lita Schiel Grigg, Bob Barnum and Karen Kiskey Brooks, practicing for their summer performances.
You don't have to come back
Surfmen of the Michigan City, Ind., lifesaving station on Trail Creek strike a leisurely pose for the camera in 1905. The man in the stern, steering oar in hand, is likely the station’s keeper, Alan Kent.
Fish on!
A tarpon “dances on its tail” off the Bahia Honda Bridge in the lower Florida Keys in a photo taken aboard Capt. Elmo Capo’s charter boat Fiji III out of Marathon, Fla.
Fire over the falls
Ablaze from stem to stern, the American side-wheel steamship Caroline is propelled over Niagara Falls on a cold, moonlit night in the winter of 1837, a victim of rebellion.
A vessel that almost wasn't
The USS Puritan churns through East River ice while passing under the Brooklyn Bridge in the winter of 1901. The 296-foot monitor was designed as an improvement on the Civil War ironclads, which had transformed naval warfare and made all of the world’s wooden warships at once obsolete.
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