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The Pope's visit to Chicago in the summer brought out not only the faithful, but also those in search of another kind of profit.

A small newsstand tucked up against the side of a church was used as a weather picture.

Want to neck? asks a romantically inclined male ostrich of his lady friend at the Philadelphia Zoo.

A bloody scene of a gangland murder. Police examine the bodies of 69-year-old mob chieftain Carmine Galante (with cigar still in his mouth) and of his bodyguard, who were gunned down in a Brooklyn, New York cafe in an apparent underworld showdown.

Fatman teases audience at Iowa State Fair midway. He sits inside trailer and will stand up for $2.00.

There is a nursing home in Libertyville, IL where from time to time, the activity director holds some rather unusual events to entertain the residents. On this occasion, several pigs were brought in from a nearby farm to visit the residents for an…

While California is reputed to be tolerant of its many eccentrics, this pedestrian was handcuffed and driven away from this corner in Santa Monica.

Francis Blaufass of Burlington, Kansas tries to block the passage of a train carrying a nuclear reactor to the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant. He was later arrested along with thirty-six other antinuke demonstrators for criminal trespassing.

A few days after the Three Mile Island nightmare, this tank truck was supposed to ferry out the radioactive water from the malfunctioning reactor, while a security guard, gaining a false sense of security from the gas mask over his gun stands guard. …

Accident at the nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.