More Old Photos... [Via Cacciatore]

Bea Arthur (nee Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009) SSgt. USMC 1943-45 WW II
Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in Wash DC, then air stations in VA and NC.  Best remembered for her title role in the TV series "Maude" and as Dorothy in "Golden Girls". 

Lucille Ball - circa 1930.  

 Miss America - 1924. 

 John Fitzgerald Kennedy - as a boy.

Emily Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister.  In 1856 she married Benjamin Helm, a Confederate general.  After Helm's death in 1863 Emily Helm passed through Union Lines to visit her sister in the White House.  This caused great consternation in the Northern newspapers.  Emily Helm took an oath of loyalty to the Union and was granted amnesty.

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